The Politics of US Feminist Internationalism and Cuba: Solidarities and Fractures on the Venceremos Brigades, 1969-89

Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics

Karen W. Tice¹ 

[1] Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Kentucky, USA

关键词: Venceremos Brigades;    transnational feminism;    solidarity delegations;    cultural imperialism;    geo-political border crossings;   

DOI  :  10.20897/femenc.201803

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Lectito Journals

【 摘 要 】

Despite US travel bans to Cuba, a wide spectrum of US feminist and radical activists defied and crossed geo-political borders to participate in unique modes of solidarity activism and alliances with Cuba revolutionaries. Based on the narratives of US feminist political travellers who joined the Venceremos Brigades, an anti-imperialist radical education project, this article analyses the difficult conversations about feminism, gender politics, homophobia, racism, cultural imperialism, revolutionary priorities, social change strategies, and intersectionality as well as the productive organisational linkages that were generated by this political travel. This article highlights how political differences were both managed and/or silenced within transnational activist encounters, and concludes by suggesting the import of these debates for building and sustaining multi-issue and coalitional affinities within contemporary transnational feminist organising and solidarity delegations.

【 授权许可】

CC BY