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- Suzanne Pharr is a southern queer feminist and anti-racist organizer. She founded the Women’s Project in Arkansas in ... moreSuzanne Pharr is a southern queer feminist and anti-racist organizer.
She founded the Women’s Project in Arkansas in 1981, was a co-founder of
Southerners on New Ground in 1984, and was director of the Highlander
Center from 1999 to 2004. Pharr is an organizer and political strategist
who has spent her adult life working to build a broad-based, multi-racial,
multi-issued movement for social and economic justice in the United
States. Major themes in her movement work include intersectional issues
and strategies, anti-violence, racial and gender equality, cross-generational
collaboration, democratic participation, economic justice, and human
rights based on equality and justice. At the center of Pharr’s every effort
is the question, “How can we make it possible for everyone to live as a
whole person, to have self-determination, to be treated with dignity and
respect, and to have access to material necessities as well as joy?” Based
on six decades of work across movements, she now thinks of herself as
a political handywoman, working across issues with activists of diverse
races, genders, sexual identities, classes, ages, abilities, and cultures to
develop strategies for justice and equality.
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Transformation: Toward a People’s Democracy is a movement book for anyone working for an expansive vision of social justice. Here Suzanne Pharr offers a clear and compelling vision for action amid social and political turmoil. Drawing on... more
Transformation: Toward a People’s Democracy is a movement book for anyone working for an expansive vision of social justice. Here Suzanne Pharr offers a clear and compelling vision for action amid social and political turmoil. Drawing on decades of work on the frontlines of social movements, Pharr’s writings create a real-time chronicle of on-the-ground organizing and the historical significance of struggles for freedom and democracy. Pharr, a Southern queer feminist and anti-racist organizer, explores the pitfalls and the strengths within social justice movements. Her writings reflect the interchange of ideas and the collective work of thinkers and organizers who led activists to lift up the liberation of gender and sexuality, to fight both domestic and state violence, to advance anti-racist strategies and the leadership of people of color, to work against the advancement of rapacious capitalism, and to confront the rise of the Right in all of its forms.
Transformation examines not just what happened but how it happened in the battles against numerous forms of oppression including economic injustice, racism, sexism, heterosexism, transphobia, and nationalism. Taken together, Pharr’s writings give activists and scholars a way to understand decades of attacks on civil rights while offering a roadmap that shows the way toward a people’s democracy where everyone has full participation, voice, a fair share of the benefits, justice, and dignity.
Transformation examines not just what happened but how it happened in the battles against numerous forms of oppression including economic injustice, racism, sexism, heterosexism, transphobia, and nationalism. Taken together, Pharr’s writings give activists and scholars a way to understand decades of attacks on civil rights while offering a roadmap that shows the way toward a people’s democracy where everyone has full participation, voice, a fair share of the benefits, justice, and dignity.
Research Interests: Social Movements, Economics, Women's Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Domestic Violence, and 15 moreCommunity Organizing, Social Justice, Rural Development, Popular Culture and Religious Studies, Nonviolence, Sexual Minority Research, Feminism and Social Justice, Anti-Racism, Anti-Fascism, Grassroots Movements, Right-Wing Extremism, Youth empowerment, Liberation movements, Lgbtq, and Theocracy
In the Time of the Right: Reflections on Liberation (1996) constructs a progressive view of the politics of our time that will make sense to students, activists and all who are trying to understand the current threat to democracy. A... more
In the Time of the Right: Reflections on Liberation (1996) constructs a progressive view of the politics of our time that will make sense to students, activists and all who are trying to understand the current threat to democracy. A long-time economic and social justice worker from the South, Pharr blends personal anecdote and contemporary cutting-edge analysis -- along with a vision of a multi-issue, multi-racial movement -- to create a powerful call to action for each of us.
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Published in 1988, Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism, shifted the conversation about gender oppression. Building on the framing of interconnected oppressions presented in the 1977 Combahee River Collective Statement, it illustrates how... more
Published in 1988, Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism, shifted the conversation about gender oppression. Building on the framing of interconnected oppressions presented in the 1977 Combahee River Collective Statement, it illustrates how homophobia and sexism are intertwined and serve male authority and domination. At the center of the book is an analysis of how all oppressions are connected by economic power and control and by common methods of limiting and controlling lives and destroying civil liberties.
Research Interests: Social Movements, Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Multiculturalism, Domestic Violence, and 15 moreRural, Queer Theory, Race and Racism, Fascism, Social Justice, Gender, Feminism, Intersectionality, Feminism and Social Justice, Anti-Racism, Right-Wing Movements, Right-Wing Extremism, Sexism, LGBTQ studies, and Social Movements/Civil Society
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By dominating the debate at the grassroots level, the tea parties were able to win the battle of position in the Congress. They scared conservatives, and inspired the Republican base to believe the fight over the ACA was a fight for... more
By dominating the debate at the grassroots level, the tea parties were able to win the battle of position in the Congress. They scared conservatives, and inspired the Republican base to believe the fight over the ACA was a fight for freedom and liberty versus tyranny and a loss of local and individual autonomy, effectively giving Congressional Republicans political cover and isolating more moderate voices in the party. This along with the reality of the ACA, which was that it was to the right of the majority in the electorate (just over 50% of voters still favor a single payer plan, including about a quarter of Republicans), made it difficult to rally grassroots support for the ACA from the left.
Transformation: Toward a People’s Democracy is a movement book for anyone working for an expansive vision of social justice. Here Suzanne Pharr offers a clear and compelling vision for action amid social and political turmoil. Drawing on... more
Transformation: Toward a People’s Democracy is a movement book for anyone working for an expansive vision of social justice. Here Suzanne Pharr offers a clear and compelling vision for action amid social and political turmoil. Drawing on decades of work on the frontlines of social movements, Pharr’s writings create a real-time chronicle of on-the-ground organizing and the historical significance of struggles for freedom and democracy. Pharr, a Southern queer feminist and anti-racist organizer, explores the pitfalls and the strengths within social justice movements. Her writings reflect the interchange of ideas and the collective work of thinkers and organizers who led activists to lift up the liberation of gender and sexuality, to fight both domestic and state violence, to advance anti-racist strategies and the leadership of people of color, to work against the advancement of rapacious capitalism, and to confront the rise of the Right in all of its forms. Transformation examines not...
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By dominating the debate at the grassroots level, the tea parties were able to win the battle of position in the Congress. They scared conservatives, and inspired the Republican base to believe the fight over the ACA was a fight for... more
By dominating the debate at the grassroots level, the tea parties were able to win the battle of position in the Congress. They scared conservatives, and inspired the Republican base to believe the fight over the ACA was a fight for freedom and liberty versus tyranny and a loss of local and individual autonomy, effectively giving Congressional Republicans political cover and isolating more moderate voices in the party. This along with the reality of the ACA, which was that it was to the right of the majority in the electorate (just over 50% of voters still favor a single payer plan, including about a quarter of Republicans), made it difficult to rally grassroots support for the ACA from the left.
Transformation: Toward a People’s Democracy is a movement book for anyone working for an expansive vision of social justice. Here Suzanne Pharr offers a clear and compelling vision for action amid social and political turmoil. Drawing on... more
Transformation: Toward a People’s Democracy is a movement book for anyone working for an expansive vision of social justice. Here Suzanne Pharr offers a clear and compelling vision for action amid social and political turmoil. Drawing on decades of work on the frontlines of social movements, Pharr’s writings create a real-time chronicle of on-the-ground organizing and the historical significance of struggles for freedom and democracy. Pharr, a Southern queer feminist and anti-racist organizer, explores the pitfalls and the strengths within social justice movements. Her writings reflect the interchange of ideas and the collective work of thinkers and organizers who led activists to lift up the liberation of gender and sexuality, to fight both domestic and state violence, to advance anti-racist strategies and the leadership of people of color, to work against the advancement of rapacious capitalism, and to confront the rise of the Right in all of its forms. Transformation examines not...
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Through our work in the battered women's movement we have developed an analysis of male violence against women that goes beyond some of the simpler explanations of violence. We do not view it as being caused by undue stress, the... more
Through our work in the battered women's movement we have developed an analysis of male violence against women that goes beyond some of the simpler explanations of violence. We do not view it as being caused by undue stress, the influence of alcohol or drugs, the result of childhood violence, mental illness, etc. What we have seen in our work is that violence against women is directly related to the condition of women in a society that refuses them equal pay, equal access to resources, and equal status with males. From this condition comes the confirmation of the male sense of ownership of women, their power over women, and their right to control women for their own means. The violence of men is fed, then, by their sense of their right to dominate and control, and their sense of superiority over a group of people who because of gender are supposedly inferior to them. Those of us who believe this to be a battered women's movement (and not just a collection of service provid...
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Through our work in the battered women's movement we have developed an analysis of male violence against women that goes beyond some of the simpler explanations of violence. We do not view it as being caused by undue stress, the... more
Through our work in the battered women's movement we have developed an analysis of male violence against women that goes beyond some of the simpler explanations of violence. We do not view it as being caused by undue stress, the influence of alcohol or drugs, the result of childhood violence, mental illness, etc. What we have seen in our work is that violence against women is directly related to the condition of women in a society that refuses them equal pay, equal access to resources, and equal status with males. From this condition comes the confirmation of the male sense of ownership of women, their power over women, and their right to control women for their own means. The violence of men is fed, then, by their sense of their right to dominate and control, and their sense of superiority over a group of people who because of gender are supposedly inferior to them. Those of us who believe this to be a battered women's movement (and not just a collection of service provid...