Cultivating Feminist Mentoring and Resisting Authoritarianism in the Academy and Beyond

Resisting authoritarianism in the academy and beyond

This presentation/paper comprises three women (Özlem Altıok, Yakın Ertürk and Alicia Re Cruz), and two stories based on their experiences of working within the academy in the United States, and within the women’s movement in Turkey. These experiences illustrate how feminist mentoring and strategizing help us resist authoritarianism across borders. Through what we call an “emergency feminism,” we invite teachers, scholars and activists to reflect on how we can collectively create and sustain relationships to resist authoritarian politics in the academy and beyond.