Dr. Sé Sullivan

Dr. Sé Sullivan spoke to the class about their experiences with conversion therapy in the state of California as a youth, their work in academia and anti-conversion therapy, and their current endeavors to make a documentary film entitled "We Just Want To Be" about their life and the lives of other individuals impacted by conversion therapy. They teach within the discipline of gender and women's studies in California and did auto-ethnographical research into their own medical files as a means of exploring and deconstructing the methodology, negative impacts, and justification for conversion therapy performed on trans youth.

Learn more about the film "We Just Want To Be" at this link: https://www.wejustwanttobe.org/

Guest Speaker: Ali Mushtaq

Ali Mushtaq talked to us about how Womanism centered community knowledge and ways of knowing. He talked about how important intersectionality is and how it led to the creation of womanism. He put more of a focus on black feminists and how they are typically not represented in the feminist community. He put an emphasis on intersectionality since people have jus

t started to talk about it in the past 5 years.

He defined Womanism as a feminist philosophy developed through the experiences of black women. It is more about the collective in the community instead of the individual. Come together as a community to resist a problem, which allows them to combat colonialism. He stated that there are 3 key concepts with Womanism: community connectedness, empowerment, and spirituality. He said that Womanism is “combatting all social oppression, disidentification of feminism, spirituality, emotions and knowledge.”

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