"Critical consciousness developed at the borders or within these work zones bespeaks the different ways in which women have reinscribed work with dignity. This consciousness takes concrete shape as daily practice within organizations that brings both individual and collective self-definition to women as workers."
-Jacqui Alexander, "Whose New World Order? Teaching for Justice"
-Jacqui Alexander, "Whose New World Order? Teaching for Justice"
In this section, you will see the ways in which women within organizations in two different parts of the world, and in two different types of "work," have changed the discourses surrounding the work that they do. Click on the buttons below to see how the Women and Memory Forum and the Sangtin Writers, through their activism and solidarity (with an exclamation point), are working to bring individual and collective self-definition to women.