Nevertheless, They Persisted by Jo Reger

Author:Jo Reger [Reger, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138306035
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2018-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

The “Other Spaces”

My research on feminist and women’s participation in not-explicitly-feminist movements or “other spaces” began in 2011 with the Occupy movement. I studied how women and feminists contributed to the movement and the gender conflict within the movement. Gender conflict is an umbrella term for conflicts within social movements that threaten or harm women, genderqueer or transgender persons, and sexual minorities (Hurwitz and Taylor forthcoming). Reports of sexual harassment and the formation of separate feminist organizations within Occupy motivated me to spend 150 hours with activists in New York City, San Francisco/Oakland and at a national conference of Occupiers called the Occupy National Gathering in Philadelphia in the summer of 2012. I interviewed 73 Occupy participants and collected an archive of more than 500 movement documents such as flyers, zines, conference call minutes and movement newspapers.

Then, in 2016, I began to wonder, “What happened to Occupy?” I went back to New York, San Francisco, and Oakland. Meeting with activists, I learned about their involvement in Occupy spin-off groups such as the Alternative Banking Working Group and Occupy the Farm, BLM and Bernie activism. In addition to my main field sites, I also studied the Democratic and Republican National Conventions because many Occupy, BLM and Bernie activism participants protested around the conventions. I spent 200 hours participating in and observing protests, events and meetings and interviewed 33 additional people. Nine undergraduate research assistants and I collected and catalogued nearly 800 electronic and paper documents about the movements.

By immersing myself in the ethnographic data about feminism within each movement, I identified several patterns of feminist spillover. Because many of the participants in this study remain active in a variety of social movements and many shared critiques about the movements, I use pseudonyms to identify quotes from interviewees. For activists I describe or quote from a publicly available record (a flyer, website, news article, etc.) I have used the participant’s published name. In the following sections, I describe feminist spillover in each movement individually and then compare and contrast the different ways that feminism is both submerged and essential within each of these recent mobilizations.

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