January Salon - Jennifer Nash and Samantha Pinto
January 11, 2023
Salon Topic:
Collecting Intersectionalities, or How To Do Feminist Collaboration Without Losing Your Mind

Salon Guests:
Jennifer Nash, PhD
Jean Fox O'Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies,
Duke University
Samantha Pinto, PhD, MA
Professor of English, Director of the Humanities Institute,
University of Texas at Austin
Salon Description:
We will be in conversation around the process of working together on a massive edited collection of original essays on intersectionality conceived of, written, and organized during the COVID-19 pandemic. How does feminist editing work in the best of times and in this, the worst of times? How does intersectionality frame our understanding of the possibilities and the limits of feminist scholarly pursuits, both individual and collective? How do you manage dissent and conflict within feminist scholarship while editing a volume that includes many different perspectives on intersectionality? Our conversation will necessarily include both the fantastic contributors that did manage to write and those amazing scholars that couldn't contribute but wanted to as months turned into unforeseen years of professional and personal labor and carework for so many of us.
Guest Bio:
Jennifer C. Nash is the Jean Fox O'Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography, Black Feminism Reimagined, Birthing Black Mothers, and the forthcoming How We Write Now: Living With Black Feminist Theory (all with Duke University Press). She is the editor of Gender: Love (Macmillan, 2016), and a co-editor (along with Samantha Pinto) of The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities (Routledge, 2023).
Samantha Pinto is Professor of English, Director of the Humanities Institute, core faculty of Women’s and Gender Studies and affiliated faculty of African & African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic (NYU Press, 2013) and Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights (Duke UP, 2020).
- Pinto, S., & Nash, J. C. (2023). Introduction: Accompanying intersectionality. In S. Pinto & J.C. Nash (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities. Routledge.
- Jordan, J. (1985). Report from the Bahamas. In B. Ryan (Ed.), Identity politics in the women's movement (2001). NYU Press.