From 2007 to 2017, Los Angeles–based magazine make/shift published some of the most inspiring feminist voices of the decade on issues like immigration, climate change, prison abolition, and more. The new anthology Feminisms in Motion: Voices for Justice, Liberation, and Transformation documents 10 years of make/shift. Angela Y. Davis calls it “a historical record of significant antiracist feminist interventions and a roadmap for moving us in the direction of freedom and justice.” This lively reunion of Feminisms in Motion co-editors and writers will highlight ten years of intersectional feminist thought and action.

PANELISTS

Stephanie Abraham is a non-fiction writer and media critic who was part of the editorial collective that founded make/shift. Her writings have appeared in McSweeney’s, Al Jazeera, Ms., and Bitch, as well as several anthologies. She serves as the marketing and communications specialist at Cal Poly Pomona and the pop culture correspondent and film critic for the radio and television show Rising Up with Sonali. 

Randa Jarrar is a professor of creative writing and executive director of RAWI, a literary nonprofit that serves Arab American writers. Her first book, A Map of Home (2008), was published in seven languages and won a Hopwood Award and an Arab American Book Award. Her most recent book, Him, Me, Muhammad Ali (2016), won an American Book Award, a PEN Oakland Award, and a Story Prize Spotlight Award. Love Is an Ex-Country is forthcoming.

Erin Aubry Kaplan is a journalist, author, and columnist who was a regular opinion columnist for the L.A. Times from 2005 to 2007, and was the first African American opinion columnist in the paper’s history. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times opinion pages and the author of two books: Black Talk, Blue Thoughts and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches from a Black Journalista (2011) and I Heart Obama (2016).

Jessica Hoffmann and Daria Yudacufski (moderators) are co-editors of the anthology Feminisms in Motion: Voices for Justice, Liberation, and Transformation (2018). From 2007 to 2017, they co-edited and co-published the independent, intersectional feminist magazine make/shift. Hoffmann is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Bitch, ColorLines, The Scholar and the Feminist, SFAQ, and GOOD. Yudacufski is executive director of USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative.