Linda Burnham

For the writer whose work and research focuses on performance art, community art, education and activism, please see Linda Frye Burnham.

Linda Burnham is an activist and author.[1][2] She, among others, has proposed an expanded form of social justice feminism that crosses "lines of race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, class, sexual orientation, physical ability and age."[3][4]

She was a leader in the Third World Women's Alliance, a revolutionary organization of women of color active from 1968 to 1980.[5]

She led delegations of women of color to the United Nations World Conference on Women in 1985, the United Nations World Conference on Women in 1995, and the United Nations World Conference Against Racism in 2001.[2]

She contributed to the 1986 anthology For Crying Out Loud: Women and Poverty in the United States.[6][7] She has also written for many other anthologies, as well as periodicals.[2]

In 1990 she co-founded the Women of Color Resource Center with Miriam Ching Louie, and she (Burnham) served as its Executive Director for 18 years.[2][8]

She was the 2007-2008 Twink Frey Visiting Social Activist at the University of Michigan.[9][10]

She edited as well as contributed to the 2009 anthology Changing the Race: Racial Politics and the Election of Barack Obama.[2]

She co-authored the book Home Economics: The Invisible and Unregulated World of Domestic Work (2012) with Nikolas Theodore.[11]

Her article "1% Feminism", published in 2013 as a response to Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg, was shared widely.[8]

As of 2015 she is the National Research Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance.[12]

She is featured in the feminist history film She's Beautiful When She's Angry.[13][14]

Additional information

"1% Feminism", by Linda Burnham

References

  1. ↑ "Linda Burnham". the Guardian.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Linda Burnham — She's Beautiful When She's Angry". Shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  3. ↑ Kalsem, Kristin; Williams, Verna (2010). "Social Justice Feminism". Faculty Articles and Other Publications. University of Cincinnati College of Law.
  4. ↑ Burnham, Linda (2008). "The Absence of a Gender Justice Framework in Social Justice Organizing" (PDF). Center for the Education of Women. University of Michigan.
  5. ↑ "Third World Women's Alliance Records, 1971-1980".
  6. ↑ Beverly Guy-Sheftall (26 July 2011). Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-AmericanFeminist Thought. New Press. pp. 486–. ISBN 978-1-59558-765-7.
  7. ↑ Diane Dujon; Ann Withorn (January 1996). For Crying Out Loud: Women's Poverty in the United States. South End Press. pp. 14–. ISBN 978-0-89608-529-9.
  8. 1 2 "1% Feminism". openDemocracy. 29 August 2015.
  9. ↑ "Earliest Visiting Social Activists - Center for the Education of Women". www.cew.umich.edu.
  10. ↑ "Visiting Social Activist Program - Center for the Education of Women". www.cew.umich.edu.
  11. ↑ Linda Burnham; Nikolas Theodore (2012). Home Economics: The Invisible and Unregulated World of Domestic Work. National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA).
  12. ↑ "The workers many activists forget". 4 August 2015.
  13. ↑ "The Women".
  14. ↑ "The Film — She's Beautiful When She's Angry". Shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
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