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Elizabeth Löwe Hunter

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🪘This is not a spoiler. This is the premis.

🪘What a deliciously audacious imagination 💥🤯

🪘Don’t look it up, just read it

🪘Special recommandation for my siblings of the old, transatlantic African diasporas🌎⛓️‍💥🪘

🪘SKY FULL OF ELEPHANTS, a novel by CEBO CAMPBELL, 2024 @cebocampbell ✍🏿 by @dr.e_hunter

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It’s been 9 months back in Copenhagen!

I feel both grateful and impatient.

🫶🏾Grateful because, all things considered, Denmark has welcomed me and my work warmly. I wasn’t sure the time was right. In these nine months, I’ve taken part in nine events as an expert/moderator/panelist/or organizer. I’ve collaborated with friends and heroes and gone out to listen to the important work others are doing. I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the small FUBU bubbles emerging here and there, however ephemeral they may be. I’ve published work and submitted more for publication. I landed a job with one of my best friends and was hired as external examiner for higher ed. I received a grant for a dream project and won a research award! The “Year of the Fire Horse” energy was in full effect!

🤌🏾I’m impatient because critical knowledge production still lacks an infrastructure. Decolonial and critical race studies are treated as non-issues; there are no dedicated institutions where we can collaborate or where our young people can receive expert guidance (period) let alone from people who reflect their lived experiences. I’m impatient because I was naively shocked to find that genuine feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial commitments aren’t actually practiced in the very places where these ideologies are performed. QTBIPOC researchers are typically brought in temporarily as a “spicy” addition but aren’t offered the stability that permanent positions provide. Meanwhile, the Danish public sphere loves self-appointed spokespeople and shallow identity politics. And “intersectionality” is not more than an inflated buzzword. The country’s most radical voices remain the most burnt-out, underpaid, and exploited - and quiet.
Denmark remains, by and large, pale, male, and stale. I am not disappointed, because I had no expectations. But it still makes me tired.

Grateful and impatient. Happy and tired. Many things can be true at the same time.

Have a great summer! ✌🏾 Read a book (maybe one of the many that were gifted to me). by @dr.e_hunter

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HAPPY JUNETEENTH 🖤❤️💚 And throwback to last June where something called me to go check on my roots… Savannah, GA. Spirit said it needed to happen, because big change was on the horizon, I just didn’t know what. Few months later I left. Spirit knew. by @dr.e_hunter

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💬 TRANSRACIAL INTIMACIES 💬 Join our conversation Wednesday May 20th, 12:00-13:30 CET/ 20:00-21:30 KST. 🆓 Registration link via FB event or link 👆🏾

ABOUT:
🔸What does it feel like to be raised in a white family in a white country for Black, brown and Indigenous people? How does having little to no racial mirroring impact your sense of self? And how do you construct an embodied, affirming and humanizing self-perception without a shared language for the specific experiences of transracial upbringings?

🔸In this conversation we explore questions about kinship, racialization, and developing a sense of self. Our questions arise from an observation that transracial experiences of racialization are often absent from critical discourses on racism. Furthermore, they are often constructed as separate, divided between regionally or racially specific fields of study. 🔸What could we learn if we shared vocabulary and resources across experiences of (surviving) transracial adoption and interracial, white family constellations? 🔸What insights can emerge from the intersection of Critical Adoption Studies, Black Studies, and Transnational Feminisms?

🔸Speakers: Amandine Gay and Seungmi Laura Cho
Moderator: Elizabeth Löwe Hunter

🔸The webinar is part of the research project Transracial Intimacies: Exploring Racialization from within the Nordic Family. The project is a collaboration between Prof. Paola Bacchetta (Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley), Prof. Lene Myong (Centre for Gender Studies, University of Stavanger), and Dr. Elizabeth Löwe Hunter (independent researcher) and it is funded by a Peder Sather Grant. 💬TRANSRACIAL INTIMACIES 💬Join our conversation Wednesday May 20th, 12:00-13:30 CET/ 20:00-21:30 KST. Registration link via FB event or link 👆🏾

ABOUT:
🔸What does it feel like to be raised in a white family in a white country for Black, brown and Indigenous people? How does having little to no racial mirroring impact your sense of self? And how do you construct an embodied, affirming and humanizing self-perception without a shared language for the specific experiences of transracial upbringings?

🔸In this conversation we explore questions about kinship, racialization, and developing a sense of self. Our questions arise from an observation that transracial experiences of racialization are often absent from critical discourses on racism. Furthermore, they are often constructed as separate, divided between regionally or racially specific fields of study. What could we learn if we shared vocabulary and resources across experiences of (surviving) transracial adoption and interracial, white family constellations?
What insights can emerge from the intersection of Critical Adoption Studies, Black Studies, and Transnational Feminisms?

🔸Speakers: Amandine Gay and Seungmi Laura Cho
Moderator: Elizabeth Löwe Hunter

🔸The webinar is part of the research project Transracial Intimacies: Exploring Racialization from within the Nordic Family. The project is a collaboration between Prof. Paola Bacchetta (Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley), Prof. Lene Myong (Centre for Gender Studies, University of Stavanger), and Dr. Elizabeth Löwe Hunter (independent researcher) and it is funded by a Peder Sather Grant. by @dr.e_hunter

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I received an Emma Goldman Award!

…for advancing feminist and inequality research in Europe.

I am truly humbled and grateful.
Being associated with such brilliant, ambitious and kind people is a deep honor.

The last decade has been filled with incredibly hard work. And the past 2-3 years, since earning my PhD, have been especially challenging and hopeless at times.

This recognition of my work affirms that it matters and someone out there sees what I am trying to do.

If you don’t see me in the group photo it is because I gave a public talk about my work in Copenhagen and flew straight to Vienna afterwards. My ceremony was then entering a room full of extremely smart people applauding me and Mieke Verloo awarding me on the spot - before I even got my coat off. A very grand, Leo entrance ✨ Thank you!

Congratulations to all the Emma Goldman awardees and the Emma Goldman Snowball awardees of 2026. I’m in awe of you.

📸 by Klaus Ranger taken in IWM - Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen by @dr.e_hunter

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Who defines what counts as ‘color’? Who defines the background?

I first saw the art work by Glenn Ligon at MoMA in New York in 2012, I think, with my two sisters. The quote immediately resonated with me – an excerpt from Zora Neale Hurston’s essay How It Feels To Be Colored Me from 1928.

Her words have stayed with me ever since. I have used the art piece and the point Hurston is making here in many educational contexts, because I think it is so clear. Naming the background, the invisibilized norm, is a reminder that this is not what always defines her, nor is it universal. White is not neutral, it was not her norm.

Zora Neale Hurston grew up in an all Black town in the US-American South. She knew herself simply to be a person (well, a person gendered as woman) and part of the unspoken racial norm. Not until she began interacting with white Americans was she defined by their racialization of her, against their norm. But their gaze was not her center.

How could it feel to be you outside of relations to whiteness and the colonialist gaze?

⚠️🧑🏾‍🏫 “Colored” was the term for Black Americans at the time (1928). We do NOT use that anymore in that context. The terms “people of color” and “colored people” are very distinct! Quote: “I do not always feel colored. [...] I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.”
Zora Neale Hurston, 1928 by @dr.e_hunter

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NY PUBLICERING / NEW PUBLICATION

Det nye Kvinder, Køn og Forskning er ude med fokus på DEKOLONISERING, ledt af chefredaktører Naja Dyrendom Graugaard og Rieke Schröder og et kompetent hold af medredaktører og peer-reviewers.
Tak til Julia Suárez-Krabbe for et positivt og omsorgsfuldt samarbejde om de sidste rettelser.

Det er længe siden jeg har været så stolt og glad over hvem jeg bliver sat i selskab med. Nummeret er fuld af venner, kollegaer og helte. Kan ikke vente med at dykke ned i det.

Læs hele nummeret på KKF’s hjemmeside og del vidt og bredt! https://tidsskrift.dk/KKF

Forsidekunst: ©️Julie Edel Hardenberg @julieedelhardenberg

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The Danish journal Women, Gender and Research has a new special issue on DECOLONISATIO led by editors-in-chief Naja Dyrendom Graugaard @littlesistoelderbrother og Rieke Schröder @rieke_schroeder and a compentent team of co-editors and peer-reviewers. A special thanks to Julia Suárez-Krabbe for a positive and caring collaboration around the last edits.

I am rarely this proud and happy about who I am associated with. This publication is full of contributions from friends, colleagues and heroes. I can’t wait to dive into it!

Access the full issue and share widely! Articles in multiple languages. https://tidsskrift.dk/KKF

Cover art: ©️Julie Edel Hardenberg� @julieedelhardenberg by @dr.e_hunter

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Intersektionalitet er ikke et begreb om vilkårlige og udskiftelige undertrykkelsesakser. Det er sort feministisk teori 🖤

Fun fact: when I was in my BA program at a Danish university, they taught us that some white Danish academic coined the term intersectionality! I think it’s for the best that I don’t remember either the professor or the scholar they claimed to be the originator. Colonizers will be colonizing.
Happy Monday!

Udsnit fra:
Hunter, Elizabeth Löwe. “Anmeldelse af Kvinder, race og klasse af Angela Y. Davis”, oversat af Mikas Lang (2022). I: Magasinet Eftertryk, Jan. 2023.
Link i min info👆🏾

Noter:
1. Crenshaw, Kimberlé. 1989. “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics.” University of Chicago Legal Forum 1989 (1): 139–65.

2. Hill Collins, Patricia. 2014. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Second Edition. New York and London: Routledge.

3. Bilge, Sirma. 2014. “Whitening Intersectionality. Evanescence of Race in Intersectionality Scholarship.” In Racism and Sociology, edited by Wulf D. Hund and Alana Lentin. LIT Verlag Münster. by @dr.e_hunter

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NYT KAPITEL 💫🌱🇩🇰🌍

Efter 12 år i udlandet (FR/USA) er jeg for nyligt flyttet til Kbh‼️ Det er der mange forskellige grunde til. Én er, at mit arbejde hører til i Europa og skal udfoldes i fællesskab hér. Så jeg glæder mig til at mødes med både nye og gamle venner og netværk for at nørde og skabe det, vi har brug for. Både i DK, i Norden og i Europa mere generelt.

Jeg drømmer om (og arbejder på og søger midler til):
- At oversætte mine yndlingsbøger og dokumentarer til dansk
- Skrive min egen bog
- Lave min dokumentarfilm
- Lave små og store arrangementer, medier osv. for videndeling og læring

Jeg er også åben for arbejde (fuldtid/deltid/kontrakt) fx som
- Forsker (især kvalitative metoder, men har også erfaring med kvant.)
- Konsulent (data, kultur, racialisering, fondssøgning, rapporter etc.)
- Oplægsholder/paneldeltager (nordisk exceptionalisme, hvid uskyld, (sort) racial isolation, tilhørsforhold, intersektionalitet mm.)
- Gæsteforelæser (dekolonialitet, køn, racialisering, sort feminisme, repræsentation, metode, mm)
- Uafhængig akademisk vejleder (Phd/MA/BA)

Ræk ud hvis du har ressourcer eller vil lave noget sammen, så kan vi se om vi er på linje ✨📚✊🏾

Vi ses ✌🏽
~ Elizabeth Löwe Hunter
Phd i African Diaspora Studies (nej, ikke Afrikastudier!), med specialisering i Women, Gender and Sexuality.
Kontakt og info: https://linktr.ee/LoweHunter

Ja, billedet er fra Oakland, hvor jeg stadig er in spirit 🥲☀️🎥 @gavinanthonydesigns by @dr.e_hunter

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Togetherness => Consciousness 🌱🌿

This entire book is both vast and deep. This last part is soft and holistic and has been very influential in my thinking. It’s about togetherness, community, and personal integration as antidotes to colonialist seperation, splitting, compartmentalization, and hierarchization of selves, others, and the world.

Alexander, M. Jacqui. 2005. Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred. Perverse Modernities. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press.

This quote is from Ch. 6 “Remembering This Bridge Called My Back, Remembering Ourselves” in Part III: Dangerous Memory: Secular Acts, Sacred Possession, page 283.

Absolute 🔥 Picture 1-3:
“[...N]o one comes to consciousness alone, in isolation, only for herself, or passively. It is here we need a verb, the verb conscientize Paolo Freire used to underscore the fact that shifts in consciousness happen through active processes of practice and reflection. Of necessity, they occur in community. We must constantly envision this as we devise ways to practice the building of communities (not sameness) over and over again” (p. 283).

Alexander, M. Jacqui. 2005. Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred. Perverse Modernities. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press.

This quote is from Ch. 6 “Remembering This Bridge Called My Back, Remembering Ourselves” in Part III: Dangerous Memory: Secular Acts, Sacred Possession, page 283. by @dr.e_hunter

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[NOUVEL ÉPISODE] 🔥🔥🔥 On se demande souvent comment les personnes noires d’ailleurs en Europe se vivent, s’énoncent et Cases Rebelles nous a régulièrement permis d’aller à la rencontre d'autres communautés afropéennes. Si se connecter aux noir.es de tous ces pays d’Europe, avec leurs histoires particulières, leurs luttes, leurs questions, leurs mots nous importe au plus haut point, nous avons avec certains pays un lien plus personnel parce que des proches y vivent.
Si vous avez lu notre livre "Le Feu qui craque" vous savez que Le Danemark en fait partie. Nous n’avions pourtant jamais parlé dans notre podcast des réalités raciales de ce pays dont le vernis progressiste s’effrite, depuis notamment le déploiement de politiques migratoires agressives et de très réactionnaires “lois ghettos”. Ce représentant du modèle scandinave a d’ailleurs souvent été considéré à tort comme étant dépourvu de véritable passé colonial.

Alors, notre joie est grande parce que notre chemin croise aujourd’hui celui d’Elizabeth Löwe Hunter @dr.e_hunter , chercheuse indépendante, afroféministe, analyste décoloniale, et autrice de "L'isolement racial des Noir·es : comprendre la subjectivité de la diaspora africaine dans le Danemark post-racial” (à lire ici : Black Racial Isolation: Understanding African Diaspora Subjectivity in Post-Racial Denmark), une passionnante réflexion philosophique, sociologique et historique réalisée pour son doctorat, achevé en 2023. Des afrodescendant·es venu·es des Caraïbes aux Brown babies adopté·es venu·es d’Allemagne, jusqu’à la diversité de plusieurs générations nées au Danemark, Elizabeth analyse avec beaucoup de finesse la construction kaléidoscopique d’identités noires dans un pays qui croit à son exceptionnalité. Pour ce 110ème épisode, nous parlons avec elle de sa recherche, de l’histoire de Victor Cornelins - un danois noir né fin 19ème à Sainte Croix dans les Caraïbes -, du moment Black Lives Matter en 2020, et de ce que cette recherche à propos des expériences de personnes noires du Danemark a mis en lumière pour elle.
On envoie force et amour à Elizabeth.
Et pour écouter -> https://www.cases-rebelles.org/episode-n110/ ou en linktree 🖤🖤🖤 by @dr.e_hunter

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Barbara Christian was a Caribbean American author, educator, and feminist critic. She was the first Black woman to be granted tenure at UC Berkeley, in 1978. She later became the first Black woman to be promoted to full professor (1986).

Along with June Jordan, she held a special place among Black Studies scholars at UC Berkeley, when I was there, and this specific quote circulated heavily. It still resonates deeply and literally with me.

Barbara Christian – like too many of her contemporaries – also remind us that this iteration of Western societies (including the University) has not yet stopped extracting, harming, and k!ll!ng Black women. Specifically those who care deeply.

Barbara Christian was born on Dec. 12, 1943 in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands and died on June 25, 2000 in Berkeley, California.

References:
Barbara Christian. 1987. “The Race for Theory.”

Other: UC Berkeley & Britannica.com by @dr.e_hunter

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