# Durba Mitra

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Emma Heaney, "Feminism Against Cisness" (Duke UP, 2024)

The contributors to Feminism Against Cisness (Duke UP, 2024) showcase the future of feminist historical, theoretical, and political thought freed from the conceptual strictures of cisness: the fallacy that assigned sex determines sexed experience. The essays demonstrate that this fallacy hinges on …

Sexuality

In this episode Karma Chávez talks with Harvard professor Durba Mitra, author of the "sexuality" entry in Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Mitra discusses how ideas about sexuality shape modern society, the ubiquitousness of sexuality as a concept, sexuality and identity, and some of…

Minipod: Durba Mitra on Gender

As part of our 25th anniversary celebration, members of our community delivered “lightning talks”—seven minutes on a particular topic delivered by an expert in the field. In this mini episode, Durba Mitra, whose research sits at the intersection of feminist and queer studies, tackles the topic of g…

Durba Mitra - Women's leadership, political movements and minority rights

Women’s leadership and feminist political organising have been critical to all kinds of political movements. This is particularly true in relation to minority rights. About Durba Mitra "I’m the Richard B. Wolf Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University. I am a schol…

Durba Mitra - A history of global feminisms

The history of global feminisms is deeply entrenched in the history of colonialism and the history of the rise and fall of slavery in the 19th century. About Durba Mitra "I’m the Richard B. Wolf Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University. I am a scholar of the histo…

Durba Mitra - Sexual violence and the fight for political change

Feminists have long theorised about how to consider evidence and women’s testimony as factual. The question of evidence in cases of sexual violence has been critical to feminist organising for the last 50 years. About Durba Mitra "I’m the Richard B. Wolf Associate Professor of Women, Gender and S…

The Anticipated End of the Gender Studies Major Is Here

Harvard University is beginning to downsize its Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program as enrollment reaches an all-time low over the past 15 years. Other universities like Texas A&M are cutting the program altogether due to the lack of interest. On this episode of The Spectator P.M. Podcast…

Mississippi Masala with Durba Mitra

This week, Jamie, Caitlin, and special guest Durba Mitra discuss Mississippi Masala (1991). Check out Durba's essay on the film at https://www.publicbooks.org/mississippi-masala-at-30-revisiting-a-film-classic-in-authoritarian-times/  Follow Durba on Instagram at @thirdworldwomen and check out her…