What is Narrative for Social Justice? Part I

Hosts Angela Du and Chiara Pellegrini and Narrative for Social Justice Initiative organizer Cody Mejeur discuss what the elusive term ‘social justice’ means to them, reflect on the critical hope that comes with doing narrative for social justice, and encourage narrative studies and “narrative” itself to open up to more disciplines, audiences, and students. Podcast music created by Drew Morgan Join the Narrative for Social Justice Facebook group Follow Narrative for Social Justice on Twitter Open the episode transcript https://bit.ly/N4Sjpodcast1 Episode bibliography: Adrienne Shaw. ‘The Trouble with Community’. In B. Ruberg and A. Shaw (Eds.), Queer Game Studies, pp. 153-162. University of Minnesota Press, 2017. José Esteban Muñoz. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. NYU Press, 2009. Susan S. Lanser. Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice. Cornell University Press, 1992. Carolyn Betensky. ‘Casual Racism in Victorian Literature’. In Victorian Literature and Culture, vol.47, no.4, 2019, pp. 723-751. Jennifer DeVere Brody. Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity and Victorian Culture. Duke University Press, 1998. Sandy Stone. ‘The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto’. Camera Obscura, vol. 10, no. 2, 1992, pp. 151-172. Jay Prosser. Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality. Columbia University Press, 1998. The Palah Light Lab: https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/palahlight/