Breaking the mold: Working through our differences to vocalize the sound of change

TY - JOUR

T1 - Breaking the mold

T2 - Working through our differences to vocalize the sound of change

AU - Abdellatif, Amal

AU - Aldossari, Maryam

AU - Boncori, Ilaria

AU - Callahan, Jamie

AU - Na Ayudhya, Uracha Chatrakul

AU - Chaudhry, Sara

AU - Kivinen, Nina

AU - Sarah Liu, Shan Jan

AU - Utoft, Ea Høg

AU - Vershinina, Natalia

AU - Yarrow, Emily

AU - Pullen, Alison

PY - 2021/9

Y1 - 2021/9

N2 - This paper orchestrates alterethnographical reflections in which we, women, polyphonically document, celebrate and vocalize the sound of change. This change is represented in Kamala Harris's appointment as the first woman, woman of color, and South Asian American as the US Vice President, breaking new boundaries of political leadership, and harvesting new gains for women in leadership and power more broadly. With feminist awareness and curiosity, we organize and mobilize individual texts into a multivocal paper as a way to write solidarity between women. Recognizing our intersectional differences, and power differentials inherent in our different positions in academic hierarchies, we unite to write about our collective concerns regarding gendered, racialised, classed social relations. Coming together across intersectional differences in a writing community has been a vehicle to speak, relate, share, and voice our feelings and thoughts to document this historic moment and build a momentum to fulfill our hopes for social change. As feminists, we accept our responsibility to make this history written, rather than manipulated or erased, by breaking the mold in the form of multi-layered embodied texts to expand writing and doing research differently through re/writing otherness.

AB - This paper orchestrates alterethnographical reflections in which we, women, polyphonically document, celebrate and vocalize the sound of change. This change is represented in Kamala Harris's appointment as the first woman, woman of color, and South Asian American as the US Vice President, breaking new boundaries of political leadership, and harvesting new gains for women in leadership and power more broadly. With feminist awareness and curiosity, we organize and mobilize individual texts into a multivocal paper as a way to write solidarity between women. Recognizing our intersectional differences, and power differentials inherent in our different positions in academic hierarchies, we unite to write about our collective concerns regarding gendered, racialised, classed social relations. Coming together across intersectional differences in a writing community has been a vehicle to speak, relate, share, and voice our feelings and thoughts to document this historic moment and build a momentum to fulfill our hopes for social change. As feminists, we accept our responsibility to make this history written, rather than manipulated or erased, by breaking the mold in the form of multi-layered embodied texts to expand writing and doing research differently through re/writing otherness.

KW - alterethnography

KW - feminist organizing

KW - intersectionality

KW - polyphony

KW - rewriting otherness

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85109037712&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1111/gwao.12722

DO - 10.1111/gwao.12722

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85109037712

SN - 0968-6673

VL - 28

SP - 1956

EP - 1979

JO - Gender, Work and Organization

JF - Gender, Work and Organization

IS - 5

ER -