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Feminist Frictions:
Free Speech

Digital Archive:
Academic Freedom & Free Speech

Accompanying Mary Anne Franks’s Feminist Frictions essay, “Speaking of Women: Feminism and Free Speech“

Other Digital Archive Pages:

Theorizing the State of Free Speech | Abusive Speech & Online Platform Governance | Free Speech & LGBTQ+ Rights

Academic Articles

Bourgeois, Robyn. (2020). “Hostility, Harassment, and Violence: On the Limits of ‘Free Speech’ for Minority Feminist Scholars.” Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice, 41.1.

Cross, Ben, & Louise Richardson-Self. (2020). ““Offensiphobia” is a Red Herring: On the Problem of Censorship and Academic Freedom.” The Journal of Ethics 24.1: 31-54.

Franks, Mary Anne. (2019). “The Miseducation of Free Speech.” Va. L. Rev. Online 105: 218.

Scott, Joan W. (2018). “How the Right Weaponized Free Speech.” Chronicle of Higher Education.

Sultana, Farhana. (2018). “The False Equivalence of Academic Freedom and Free Speech.” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 17.2: 228-257.

Bitch Media · Backtalk: Cleaning Up After “American Dirt”

Online Articles

Baker, Carrie N. & Marcela Rodrigues-Sherley. “Critical Race Theory Bans Target Feminist Professors: ‘This is Censorship’.” Ms. Magazine, August 11, 2021.

Givhan, Jennifer. “On Cultural Appropriation: A Latina Novelist Calls Herself Out Amid the ‘American Dirt’ Controversy.” Salon, January 26, 2020.

Goldberg, Michelle. “Opinion | The Campaign to Cancel Wokeness: How the Right is Trying to Censor Critical Race Theory.” New York Times, February 26, 2021.

Hartocollis, Anemona. “They Say Colleges are Censorious. So They Are Starting a New One.” New York Times, November 8, 2021.

Jones, Sarah. “Who’s Afraid of Higher Education?” New York, November 8, 2021.

Namaste, Justice. “UNC Donor Raised Concerns Over Nikole Hannah-Jones Hiring, Claimed the 1619 Project Was ‘[Pushing] An Agenda’.” Jezebel, June 1, 2021.

Pineda, Dorany. “Roxane Gay, Myriam Gurba and Others Discuss the Publishing ‘Crisis’ after ‘American Dirt’.” LA Times, February 7, 2020.

Sloan, Karen. “From Georgetown to Yale, Free Speech Controversies Roil Top Schools.” Reuters, February 1, 2022.

 

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