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Centering land and care, this course asks: what critical roles do Indigenous feminisms play in resisting settler colonialism? Asserting bodily autonomy and self-determination? Forming the self and the nation and preserving land-based ways of being? What alternative worlds and freedoms do Indigenous feminisms model? Beside these questions, students will be given the space to adapt their own ethic and commitment to Indigenous thought as they reflect on the material and craft their own feminist worldview.  

L98 AMCS 330D: Culture and Identity: Indigenous Feminisms

Eman Ghanayem is a postdoctoral fellow in Indigenous studies primarily focused on Palestine and Indigenous North America. Dr. Ghanayem earned her doctorate in English, with graduate minors in American Indian Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She writes and teaches within the areas of Indigenous literary theory, comparative ethnic studies, and feminist and queer perspectives.