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The Virus of Critical Social Justice

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The Future of Women's Studies

A new paper argues that women's studies should be seen as an infectious, insurrectional and potentially dangerous field of study. In this essay, we first posit how the metaphor of the virus in part exemplifies an ideal feminist pedagogy. To serve as symbolic viruses that infect, unsettle and disrupt traditional and entrenched fields. It's almost unbelievable to me that they would write this, but here we are. They're proud of the fact that they're comparing themselves to viruses, including Ebola and HIV.

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