Burned, Broke, and Brilliant: Latinx Community Workers’ Experiences Across the Greater Toronto Area's Non-Profit Sector

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Abstract

This paper explores how women and non-binary Latinx community workers (LCWs), in the Greater Toronto Area, navigate multiple interlocking forces of oppression like racialisation, heterosexism and neoliberalism, when advancing social justice across the non-profit sector. Using an intersectionality framework in tandem with testimonio methodology, including 37 testimonios, a workshop and participant observation, I show how LCWs are constrained by, but also contest, a white neoliberal non-profit funding structure and patriarchal political system. I also explore how community work has contradictory effects on the mental, physical and economic wellbeing of LCWs. Lastly, I demonstrate how LCWs persist by weaving together their family and community histories, personal experiences and women of colour feminisms to enact a Latinx decolonial feminist praxis. I consider what lessons a Latinx decolonial feminist praxis can bring to bear on debates in human geography around neoliberalism, the non-profit sector and social justice transformation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)66-86
Number of pages21
JournalAntipode
Volume51
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2019
Externally publishedYes

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Author. Antipode © 2018 Antipode Foundation Ltd.

Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

Keywords

  • Latinx decolonial feminism
  • community work
  • neoliberalism
  • race
  • social justice
  • testimonio

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