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44When We Handed Out the Crayolas, They Just Stared at ThemPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 23 (1): 71-90. 2016.In 2008, over 400 children living on the Yearning for Zion Ranch, a rural Texas polygamist community of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (FLDS), were forcibly removed from their mothers’ care by State troopers responding to allegations of child abuse. This essay examines the role of neoliberal ideologies and, more specifically, what some queer theorists have identified as ‘metronormativity’ in solidifying a widespread caricature of FLDS mothers as ‘bad’ mothers.…Read more
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32Introduction: Contested TerrainsHypatia 32 (3): 477-487. 2017.Editors' introduction to a special issue of Hypatia on "Contested Terrains: Women of Color, Third World Women, Feminisms and Geopolitics
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29Unsettling Feminist Philosophy: An Encounter with Tracey Moffatt's Night CriesHypatia 35 (1): 97-122. 2020.This essay seeks to unsettle feminist philosophy through an encounter with Aboriginal artist Tracey Moffatt, whose perspectives on intergenerational relationships between white women and Indigenous women are shaped by her experiences as the Aboriginal child of a white foster mother growing up in Brisbane, Australia during the 1960s. Moffatt's short experimental film Night Cries provides an important glimpse into the violent intersections of gender, race, and power in intimate life and, in so doi…Read more
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Review of A Question of David: A Disabled Mother's Journey Through Adoption (review)Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering 5 (2): 202-204. 2003.
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Review of Naked Motherhood (review)Journal of the Association for Research on Motherhood 4 (2): 230-32. 2002.
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