Breaking the Mould: Working through our Differences to Vocalize the Sound of Change

Amal Abdellatif, Maryam Aldossari, Ilaria Boncori, Jamie Callahan, Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya, Sara Chaudhry, Nina Kivinen, Shan‐jan Sarah Liu, Ea Høg Utoft, Natalia Vershinina, Emily Yarrow and Alison Pullen
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Amal Abdellatif: Northumbria University [Newcastle]
Maryam Aldossari: The University of Edinburgh
Ilaria Boncori: University of Essex
Jamie Callahan: Northumbria University [Newcastle]
Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya: Birkbeck College [University of London]
Sara Chaudhry: The University of Edinburgh
Nina Kivinen: Uppsala University
Shan‐jan Sarah Liu: The University of Edinburgh
Ea Høg Utoft: Aarhus University [Aarhus]
Natalia Vershinina: Audencia Business School
Emily Yarrow: University of Portsmouth
Alison Pullen: Macquarie University

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Abstract: This paper orchestrates alterethnographical reflections in which we, women, polyphonically document, celebrate and vocalize the sound of change. This change is represented in Kamala Harris's appointment as the first woman, woman of color, and South Asian American as the US Vice President, breaking new boundaries of political leadership, and harvesting new gains for women in leadership and power more broadly. With feminist awareness and curiosity, we organize and mobilize individual texts into a multivocal paper as a way to write solidarity between women. Recognizing our intersectional differences, and power differentials inherent in our different positions in academic hierarchies, we unite to write about our collective concerns regarding gendered, racialised, classed social relations. Coming together across intersectional differences in a writing community has been a vehicle to speak, relate, share, and voice our feelings and thoughts to document this historic moment and build a momentum to fulfill our hopes for social change. As feminists, we accept our responsibility to make this history written, rather than manipulated or erased, by breaking the mold in the form of multi-layered embodied texts to expand writing and doing research differently through re/writing otherness.

Date: 2021
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Published in Gender, Work and Organization, 2021, 28 (5), pp.1956-1979. ⟨10.1111/gwao.12722⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12722

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