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The magic of feminist bridging: A mosaic of anti-racist speech bubbles about Othering in Swedish Academia
Linköping University.ORCID iD: 0009-0007-2381-038X
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5727-5660
Linköping University.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2973-6225
University of Strathclyde.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7932-2867
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2023 (English)In: Kvinder, Køn og Forskning, ISSN 0907-6182, E-ISSN 2245-6937, Vol. 36, no 2, p. 147-161Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Are feminist coalitions magical enough to survive and endure while questioning and shaking the colonial/racist foundations of Swedish academic knowledge production and the overall Swedish society? Can feminist bridging and collective writing remain a magical process even when grappling with diffi cult ex-periences and memories of Othering and racialization? This is a creatively and collectively written article on feminist coalition building, and its importance in thinking, articulating and deconstructing race, racial-ization and racist structures. More than two years ago, seven interdisciplinary gender studies scholars of mixed ethnic and racial origins, came together to explore our differently situated experiences of disidenti-fying with Swedish academia and society in a collective we call Loving Coalitions (capital initials). Against the background of Swedish exceptionalism, historical amnesia of Sweden’s colonial past and present, and the deafening silence on Swedish whiteness and racism, we are sharing our poems, letters, texts and testimonies of racist interactions in Swedish academia and society. While doing so, we discuss how moving away from conventional ways of doing research and experimenting with creative methodological alternatives allow us to acknowledge and embrace our different life backgrounds and academic trajecto-ries as a mode of knowledge production. We hope and believe that our experiences, reflections and ways to resist racism and Othering in Sweden and Swedish academia through alternative coalition building, based on mutual care and love, can be relevant in a Danish context as well.

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2023. Vol. 36, no 2, p. 147-161
Keywords [en]
feminist coalitions, Swedish exceptionalism, racism, Swedish academia, alternative methodologies, everyday experiences, Critical Race Studies
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Gender Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-49948DOI: 10.7146/kkf.v36i2.134731Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85179099568OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-49948DiVA, id: diva2:1814612
Available from: 2023-11-26 Created: 2023-11-26 Last updated: 2023-12-19Bibliographically approved

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