Sex & the State is a CRG research working group that brings together a range of inquiries that examine the relationships of gender and sexuality to regimes of state regulation and control, with particular attention to the role of racial formation in these processes. Both key terms—“sex” and “state”—are multivalenced. “Sex” serves as a foundational category while retaining its distinctness from gender and queer studies. The “State” refers not only to national bodies, but also to state powers within a federal-state system such as exists in the...
The Criminal Justice Working Group, sponsored by the Center for Race and Gender, is a community of graduate students across academic disciplines interested in or actively engaged in researching issues related to the criminal justice system in California and in the United States. We serve as a networking site, connecting our members and others to criminal justice resources on campus and within our community, and as a research sounding board, hosting workshops for members’ research in which they present working ideas or papers and get feedback.
The Race and Yoga Research Working Group examines the intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality, able-bodiedness, and age in yoga. In addition to viewing yoga through the lens of intersectionality and Women of Color / Third World Feminisms, this group focuses on somatic theories to explore the praxis of yoga programs. Race and Yoga explores programs offered in yoga studios and other non-traditional settings, such as prisons. Although statics on annual income, educational level, and the ratio of female to male yoga practitioners in the United States are readily available, there is a...
The goals of this working group include but are not limited to:
1) Fostering a safe space to further discussions about the production and circulation of race-blackness, Asianness and mixedness-and intersections with gender.
2) Engage with afropessimism, afrotopia, bluetopia, and others in light of findings from our own fieldwork experiences, research findings and outstanding questions regarding blackness in particular.
3) To prompt and inspire new and creative scholarship, whether via the dissertation, articles (for publication) and/or working papers. We are all...
This working group begins from an understanding of the hierarchies within social science research methods which delegitimize the qualitative methods that address equity and social justice, and speak from “epistemologies of the wound” as Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez explains. Meetings will offer participants opportunities to collaboratively gather a knowledge-base of race, class, gender, and queer-based epistemological issues, particularly in the field of educational research.
While quantitative methods serve an uncontested value in research, critical qualitative methodologies bring a...
The purpose of this working group is to move beyond the obvious legibility of women of color and look between the margins in an attempt to acknowledge and remember the women who are often forgotten in theoretical discourse: everyday women whose own lives are quiet soliloquies of resilience. We are seeking to ground womanisms and feminisms as an everyday praxis.
Women of color have long withstood the pangs of colonial conquest, multiple oppressions and marginalization therefore this working group is an attempt to honor the modes of survival which have been employed by women of color...
The Migration at the Intersections working group will be an inclusive interdisciplinary space for graduate students and faculty from Berkeley and other academic institutions whose research addresses the intersection of at least two of the following axes of identity: race, gender, sexuality, and immigration status. The group is meant to complement the Borderland Practice working group, which brings together practitioners.
The 1960s -1980s witnessed an explosion of transnational exchanges between women and queers from the global north and global south, conjuring up new and powerful imaginaries of social justice and forever altering the landscape of movements for sexual and gender justice. Radical and critical autonomous Indigenous feminist and queer of color, and of all colors, subjects and movements left various traces of their theories and practices in alternative journals, leaflets, posters, pictures, poetry, artwork, music, personal writings, and the like. Yet, many of these histories have been erased,...
Islamophobia, Gender, & Sexuality working group’s primary goal is to develop analyses of the place of gender, sexuality and race in Islamophobia and the effects of Islamophobia on gendered, sexualized and racialized subjects.
The Reproductive Justice Working Group's primary goal is to co-create an environment in which participants can deepen their understanding of reproductive justice and develop practical ideas for integrating reproductive justice into their research and practice.
