Inspire Yourself Daily

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“Intersectional Collectives and Ecologies of Place”

Participating Institutions:

• New York University
• University of Southern California
• Georgia State University
• University of Virginia
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• University of Utah

Hosted by the School for Cultural and Social Transformation at the University of Utah

This inaugural Institute for Intersectional Studies will allow each Mellon-funded team to present key features of its proposed plan and give a detailed sense of institutional/local/regional contexts that pertain to the building of a national network.  Attentive to the lineage of intersectionality as lived reality and critical concept, teams at the Institute will broadly explore its ongoing influence and points of debate, while specifically forging praxis-centered strategies that aim to answer: where, when, and how are we doing this concept? How are we teaching it? How are we preparing to make change through it? How can we honor its genealogical emergence via Black feminisms and its new extensions, particularly through community connections? Nestled at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains, in a valley of rich Indigenous heritage, still a vital crossroads for rural and urban Native people, along with populations of diverse demographics, a series of thought-and-action exchanges will seek to advance these urgent matters.