We Talk to Really Smart People: Clare Hemmings – Feminism, Fascism, and the Future
In this episode we talk to Prof. Clare Hemmings of the London School of Economics. Prof. Hemmings helped to start an international research group on the anti-gender movement. Prof. Hemmings puts a lot of what’s going on into historical perspective for us by linking white supremacy, transphobia and the colonial imagination together.
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Clare Hemmings
Clare Hemmings is Professor of Feminist Theory. She has been working at the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics since 1999.
She has two main areas of research focus – feminist and queer studies – and is particularly interested in thinking through the relationship between these, as well as the ways in which both fields have been institutionalized at national and international levels. This interest has led her to think about how participants in these fields tell stories about their history as well as current form, and to explore how such stories resonate with (rather than against) more conservative agendas. To find out more, go here.