![]() ![]() Their campaign has not only targeted and demonized antiracist work, but they broadened their attacks to discredit frameworks that Black women and queer people have produced in order to explain, describe, and transform the conditions of their lives. Promoters of this racially extremist agenda have banded together with others across the political spectrum to wage a war against their own invented grievance that they have labeled as “woke-ism.” They have attacked librarians, surveilled and harassed teachers, canceled classes, banned books, and weaponized the law to forbid ideas, frameworks, and viewpoints in the nation’s schools, colleges, and workplaces. history, attempting to censor concepts that sprang to life out of decades of struggle against racism, sexism, ableism, colonialism, and related forms of domination. This faction, which includes multiple state legislators and governors, has attacked the democratization of the teaching of U.S. Since the summer of 2020, an emboldened and well-resourced faction in the United States, and increasingly around the globe, has declared war on hard-fought advances in civil and human rights, social justice, and democratic participation. ![]() This strategy has surfaced in conjunction with the recent debacle concerning college-level curriculum for high school students in the United States, but has appeared elsewhere as well. In this letter, we express our concerns about the coordinated and dangerous disinformation campaigns that seek to discredit and censor vital tools such as intersectionality and Black feminism. Here we write as concerned individuals in professions ranging from education and research to policy-making, clinical care, and advocacy who have benefited from and continue to use intersectionality and a family of related concepts in our work. We also agree with the 30 Black LGBTQ organizations that have denounced the “relentless attacks that have led to book banning, curriculum censorship, politically motivated purges of educators, and an exodus of skilled teachers.” ![]() We join the thousands of signatories who have opposed censoring critical content in public and higher education. Open Letter on Fighting “Anti-Woke” Censorship of Intersectionality and Black FeminismĪs over 3000+ academics, artists, advocates, policy-makers, and concerned persons from different parts of the world, we emphatically oppose the attacks being waged on educational curricula in the United States and elsewhere against intersectionality, critical race theory, Black feminism, queer theory, and other frameworks that address structural inequality. ![]()
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