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 language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 66-86 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Antipode |
Volume | 51 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2019 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
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