Our institutions are in real difficulty. It's both an opportunity and a challenge to us. We want our institutions to improve the lives of women, but also to create space for different discourses. The shifting balance between activism and research across institutions generated debate as well. But if work isn't connected to the social body, the social-political body, then we have a problem.
All practice is theoretical.
We may have the luxury of not having to think on our feet. But students must see their work as political work. Throughout the panel, discussions of theory and practice were influenced by positivist and empirical approaches, with reference to earlier debates on crossing the borders of race, class, and generation. It would be useful to have these discussions published in places decisionmakers in higher education read. The meeting concluded with a call for collective action that transcended partisanship and division.