Morgan Bilecek is a Women's Studies major at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, concurrently minoring in Philosophy and LGBT Studies. She specializes in intersectional theory.
This website covers Morgan's academic research and essays written under the tutelage of distinguished professors in this field. It also showcases Morgan's abilities to collaborate, create, and elicit change as demonstrated in her feminist toolkit for feminist futures. Also highlighted is her experience in the work force incorporating her scholastic background in the work environment.
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If you are interested in learning more about feminism, there is a variety of feminist literature attached in the links below.
Note: Some may include discussion of sexual violence and identity-based violence.
Oppression
Young, "Five Faces of Oppression"
Privilege
McIntosh, "White Privilege and Male Privilege"
Taylor, "Cisgender Privilege: On the Privileges of Performing Normative Gender"
Epistemology
Jaggar, "Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology"
Longino, "Science as Social Knowledge"
Lugones, "Playfulness 'World'-Travelling, and Loving Perception"
Sex, Gender, Sexuality
Bettcher, "Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers: On Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Illusion"
Butler, "Doing Justice to Someone: Sex Reassignment and Allegories of Transsexuality"
Environment
Gaard & Gruen, "Ecofeminism: Toward Global Justice and Planetary Health"
The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.
bell hooks
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