Patricia Hill Collins

And then there was another one.

I don't remember the title of it, but I think it was by Patricia Hill Collins.

And yeah, She, it was either Partitural Collins or Bell Hooks, maybe.

But I don't remember which

And then-

But not only that, then you have all the holidays to hit in between, so I mean, what are we talking about here? I, I think, like, it was something that I wanted to trouble, especially since, like, for my work I was coming from the perspective of Black feminist studies, which to be clear, a lot of Black feminist theorists, foundational ones including Audre Lorde, including Patricia Hill Collins, all demonize, like, they're like, "Porn? No, absolutely not, because the only thing that we're doing is, like, recapitulating racial stereotypes over and over again," which I don't agree with.

That was te- I was arguing for I'm pro-porn [laughs].

That is, I think that it ends up being a scapegoat for a lot of social ills when we have to remember that there are people filming this.

So there's a serious body of work behind this, and I wanna bring three pieces to it.

In 1986, the sociologist, uh, Patricia Hill Collins published an essay in Social Problems called "Learning from the Outsider Within." And consultants, I believe, are, are those people that a lot of people can learn from.

Uh, her argument is precise and is more specific than the way it usually gets repeated.

So she's describing a structural position, and it's not a feeling.

Hortense Spillers and Angela Davis.

Hortense Spillers, Pauli Murray, Angela Davis, as you just said, Anita Hill, um, Pat Hill Collins, who was at UMD.

Yeah.

Yes, here in Baltimore.

The violence really, um, and, and I'm not saying this, uh, but I'm saying this because I'm building on the long tradition of, uh, um, post-colonial as well as feminist scholarship that has done some incredible work on the nature of this, uh, silencing and epistemic violence that happens in our world.

The violence lies Pretty much in denying the standing of the speaker, right? Because, uh, even before the argument is made, uh, the judgment is cast on that speaker to say, "Well, you're not worth it." And, um, and feminist scholarship, particularly Patricia Hill Collins, um, shows how social categories can, uh, shape, um, how credibility is assigned, you know? And then the issue is not somebody whether they possess knowledge or whether someone do not possess knowledge, um, but the real issue is whether the audience, uh, who is supposed to be listening to the speaker recognizes that speaker as someone who's entitled to produce that knowledge, produce that claim and assertion in the first place.

So what I did is basically build on that tradition and extend it to international politics along the traditions of other thinkers who've done the same to think about problems of silencing and epistemic violence, uh, in, and erasures in international politics.

So states, and this is a pretty much the, the, uh, state-centric project, right? The book itself.

How many identities do you have? You can come up...

I mean, you don't have to be Kimberlé Crenshaw to come up with intersectionality or Patricia Hill Collins.

We all are a multitude of identities.

Today I'm talking as old and teacher.