Beck Clasen

Beck Clasen is Philosophy and Critical Thought major. She will be presenting her senior project, titled “Gender, Race, and the Technology of Domination: How Perception Enables or Resists Oppressive Structures.” Using Judith Butler’s account of “grievability” and “non-grievability”and Maria Lugones’ powerful decolonial feminist framework, Beck explores how the production of gender and race following colonial legacies reveal oppressions as intermeshed, calling for an ethical practice of shifting the way that we understand ourselves and relate to others within the oppressed/oppressing ⇔ resisting tension.