Conference „Race, Privilege & Identity Gathering“
24-26th April 2009
St. Werburghs Community Centre, Bristol
Programm
Workshop: Race & feminism: learning from history
26th April 2009, 12.00 – 1.30
Facilitator: Terese J
This workshop will start with a presentation looking at how racism and white privilege has been challenged, discussed, ignored and/or erased from history at different moments within feminism’s recent past (looking in particular at the 1980s). It will also challenge the popular misconception that feminism in the UK has always been led by white women. The presentation will be followed by a discussion about how contemporary feminist activistscan engage with and learn from this history, and to think about ways in which we can avoid reinventing the wheel, and instead build on the historically-grounded, critically honest and accountable antiracist movements spearheaded by anti-imperialist feminists in the 1980s.