Contextualizing Feminist Voices: The Lesson Plans

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These episodes of “Contextualizing Feminist Voices: The Lesson Plans” are focused on teaching, pedagogy, and uses of the archive in the context of the classroom. Designed with a special emphasis on educators, each of the episodes of this series showcases one of the twelve available Lesson Plans from the Project, including its activities, assignments, and additional resources for incorporating the archive into your class.

Music Credit

Banjo Arba Minch Garden by Cooper Moore. Creative Commons. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Cooper-Moore/A_Retrospective_1990-2010/h_Banjo_Arba_Minch_Garden

Each podcast episode is a conversation between three Global Feminisms Project staff members who are the original designers of the Lesson Plans.

Eimeel Castillo

Eimeel Castillo is a doctoral candidate in the joint program in History and Women's & Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation examines the U.S. occupation of Nicaragua from a gender perspective. Before coming to Michigan, Eimeel was a researcher and instructor at the Institute of History of Nicaragua and Central America (IHNCA) at the Universidad Centroamericana in Managua, where she conducted research on memory studies and Nicaragua's history of authoritarianism. She has been collaborating with the Global Feminisms Project since 2018.

Marisol Fila

Marisol Fila (she/her/Ella) is a PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Michigan, a 2023-2024 Harvard Visiting Fellow, and an Imagining America PAGE Co-Director. Her research explores how Black female and male writers, artists, and intellectuals in the twenty-first century Black presses of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and São Paulo, Brazil use digital and print media to navigate distinct articulations between diasporic and national Black identities. Part of the Global Feminisms Project since 2018, Marisol has conducted interviews with Afro-Brazilian women, created lesson plans using the archive's materials, and currently co-produces the Contextualizing Feminist Voices podcast series.

Özge Savaş

Özge Savaş is an assistant professor of psychology at Bennington College. She received her PhD from Psychology and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. Özge works with historically and systemically disadvantaged and marginalized individuals and communities, combining decolonial and intersectional feminist theories to explain how systems of oppression are maintained. She examines the role of stigma, stereotypes, and prejudice in intergroup conflict. Her engagement with the Global Feminisms project started in 2013, and she published her master's thesis based on GFP Archives, titled "Alternative Pathways to Activism: Intersections of Social and Personal Pasts in the Narratives of Women's Rights Activists" in the Qualitative Psychology Journal.

Art and Feminism

In this episode, Özge Savaş interviews Marisol Fila about the Art and Feminism Lesson Plan.

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Black Feminisms

In this episode, Özge Savaş interviews Marisol Fila about the Black Feminisms Lesson Plan.

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Gender-Based Violence

In this episode, Marisol Fila interviews Özge Savaş about the Gender-Based Violence Lesson Plan.

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