Ask a Feminist

WiTh CAThY J. CohEN AND
SArAh J. JACkSoN
introduction
I had the pleasure of having this conversation
with Cathy Cohen, the David
and Mary Winton Green Professor of
Political Science and chair of political
science at the University of Chicago, in
late 2015.
Cohen’s work, both academically and
as an activist, has inspired my own,
particularly in terms of making connections
between black feminist theory, social
movements, and issues of race and
racism in the United States. Cohen is
the principal investigator of two major
social change projects: The black Youth
Project and the Mobilization, Change
and Political and Civic Engagement
Project. Her books, Democracy Remixed:
Black Youth and the Future of American
Politics and The Boundaries of Blackness:
AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics
have offered important interventions in
scholarship on race and politics. She is
also the coeditor, with Kathleen Jones
and Joan Tronto, of Women Transforming
Politics: An Alternative Reader.
Since the publication of my book,
Black Celebrity, Racial Politics, and the
Press: Framing Dissent, I have been particularly
compelled by the use of technology
by racial justice activists like the
women who started #BlackLivesMatter.
My recent collaborative work with
Brooke Foucault Welles, “Hijacking
#myNYPD: Social Media Dissent and Networked
Counterpublics” and “#Ferguson
is Everywhere: Initiators in Emerging
Counterpublic Networks” (in press), has
illustrated that everyday citizens—particularly
young women and people of
color—are having a very real impact on
national narratives of equality and citizenship.
In the following conversation, Cohen and I discuss the potentials
for feminist theory in racial justice movements, the
unique ways in which race and gender intersect in state violence,
challenges for feminist academics of color engaged in
activism, and the shape of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
You can follow us on Twitter at @cathyjcohen and @sjjphd
respectively.
—Sarah J. Jackson
Sarah Jackson (SJ): I’d like to begin by asking what role you
Photo of New Year’s Eve 2014 at @mosphere by Jerry Nunn
Cathy Cohen.
see feminism, and feminist scholarship in particular, playing
in today’s racial justice movements, as well as what you think
scholars can learn from activists and vice versa.
Cathy Cohen (CC): That’s a really big and important question.
At its most basic level I think that feminism at the
very least—and maybe most importantly—makes us stop and
ask about the role that women, and here I mean both cis
and trans women, are playing at this particular time in the
multiple movements that are emerging, and particularly, at
least for the work that I’m doing and thinking about, in what
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