March 4, 2025 6:30 pm
Town Hall Seattle, Livestream (Hybrid)
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Margo Okazawa-Rey
As the late philosopher Antonio Gramsci argued: “The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.鈥澨�听
Today鈥檚 multiple monsters, each with various heads, the state and civil society leaders of the globalized culture of killing, threaten the very survival of the planet. Multi-generations of feminist and other radical and visionary movements, activists, artists, musicians, journalists, academics are facing the 鈥渕onsters鈥� in a variety of ways worldwide.听 How do we come to understand the 鈥渢he monsters鈥� and their 鈥渉eads鈥� in this moment of global humanitarian and moral crises? What don鈥檛 or can鈥檛 we understand about the 鈥渕onsters鈥�? How will our understanding shape our vision of a world in which all living beings will thrive? What will be our paths and journeys to reach that destiny?听 Our feminist dialogue space will embrace these questions and more and share our personal and communal experiences to delineate a set of guiding principles that we believe should constitute the foundation of feminist Transnational Feminist Non-aligned Movement for Genuine Security and a Culture of Life.听
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About the speaker
Margo Okazawa-Rey
Professor Emerita San Francisco State University, Activist, Educator
Margo Okazawa-Rey, Professor Emerita San Francisco State University,听 is an activist and educator working on issues of militarism, armed conflict, and violence against women examined intersectionally. She has long-standing activist commitments in South Korea and Palestine, working closely with Du Re Bang/My Sisters Place and Women鈥檚 Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling, respectively.听 She also is a founding member of the International Women鈥檚 Network against Militarism and Women for Genuine Security and is President of the Board of Directors of Association for Women鈥檚 Rights in Development (AWID). Her recent publications include 鈥淏uilding a Culture of Life: A Conversation on Abolition, Feminism, and Asian American Politics.鈥� P. Kandaswamy, M. Okazawa-Rey, & S. Shigematsu. (2023). Frontiers: A Journal of Women鈥檚 Studies; 鈥淭wo Decades of Feminist Organising for Genuine Security: Understandings from the International Women鈥檚 Network Against Militarism鈥� with Akibayashi, Fabros, Kirk, et al. Feminist Conversations on Peace. S. Smith & K. Yoshida (Eds.) (2022). Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press; 鈥淣补迟颈辞苍-izing鈥� Coalition and Solidarity Politics for US Anti-militarist Feminists, Social Justice (2020); Gendered Lives: Intersectional Perspectives, Oxford University Press (2020); 鈥淣o Freedom without Connections: Envisioning Sustainable Feminist Solidarities鈥� (2018) in Feminist Freedom Warriors: Genealogies, Justice, Politics, and Hope, Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda Carty (eds.). She was a founding member of the Combahee River Collective.听
Sponsoring Departments: The Graduate School, Department of American Ethnic Studies, Center for Anti-Racism and Community Health, School of Public Health, UW Tacoma, Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology