"Latinx Abolition Feminisms: Incarceration, Agency, and Coalitional Politics"

Abstract:

"Drawing from interdisciplinary fields such as Latinx studies, feminist theory, and critical prison studies, this presentation foregrounds the historical and contemporary work of U.S. Latina/x writers and activists to examine how each offers philosophical contributions to abolitionist feminist frameworks. The talk will address published writings by Latina/x feminist authors, as well as materials from Latina/x activists from the 1960s until today whose philosophical praxis can be gleaned through their interviews, archival documents, and print media."

Bio:
Andrea Pitts is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, and their research interests include Latin American and U.S. Latinx philosophy, critical philosophy of race, feminist philosophy, disability studies, and critical prison studies. Andrea is author of Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance (2021), and co-editor with Mark Westmoreland of Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson (2019) and Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance with Mariana Ortega and José M. Medina (2020). They are also co-editor of a forthcoming volume titled Trans Philosophy: Meaning and Mattering (featuring a fantastic chapter by Dr. Amy Marvin!).