{"id":13930,"date":"2019-11-11T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=13930"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:45:03","slug":"florence-bird-lecture-jennifer-nash","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/event\/florence-bird-lecture-jennifer-nash\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Nash &#8211; Love Letter from a Critic, or Notes on the Intersectionality Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p>&#8220;Love Letter&nbsp;from a Critic, or Notes on the Intersectionality Wars&#8221; follows the word \u201ccritic\u201d around the black feminist archive, endeavoring to trace its myriad meanings by asking: Who are intersectionality\u2019s critics, and what precisely makes those scholars\u2019 works critical?&nbsp; Why has the term \u201ccritic\u201d come to circulate and proliferate around intersectionality in recent years? Why are black feminists so deeply invested in exposing the \u201ccritic\u201d?&nbsp;&nbsp; The talk explores the affective lure of the term critic, engaging how&nbsp;the term \u201ccritic\u201d has become the centerpiece of the intersectionality wars that black feminism has found itself mired in, and asking how the constant invocation of the malicious critic as a pernicious outsider becomes a crucial strategy through which black feminists reassert their territorial hold on intersectionality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennifer C. Nash is Associate Professor of African American Studies and Gender &amp; Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of&nbsp;<em>The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;(Duke U Press 2014) and&nbsp;<em>Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality&nbsp;<\/em>(Duke U Press 2019), and the editor of&nbsp;<em>Gender: Love<\/em>&nbsp;(MacMillan 2016). She has published articles in journals including&nbsp;<em>Signs<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Feminist Theory<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>GLQ<\/em>,<em>&nbsp;Social Text<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Feminist Studies<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[60],"cu_event_audience":[19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27],"class_list":["post-13930","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-florence-bird","cu_event_audience-alumni","cu_event_audience-anyone","cu_event_audience-carleton-community","cu_event_audience-current-students","cu_event_audience-faculty","cu_event_audience-media","cu_event_audience-prospective-students","cu_event_audience-staff","cu_event_audience-staff-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2020-03-17T00:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2020-03-17T00:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"DT","cu_event_meeting_room":"2017","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Lana Keon","cu_event_email":"lana.keon@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/13930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/13930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14080,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/13930\/revisions\/14080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=13930"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=13930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}