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Breaking the mold: Working through our differences to vocalize the sound of change

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© 2021 The Authors. Gender, Work & Organization published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.This paper orchestrates alterethnographical reflections in which we, women, polyphonically document, celebrate and vocalize the sound of change. This change is represented in Kamala Harris's appointment as the first woman, woman of color, and South Asian American as the US Vice President, breaking new boundaries of political leadership, and harvesting new gains for women in leadership and power more broadly. With feminist awareness and curiosity, we organize and mobilize individual texts into a multivocal paper as a way to write solidarity between women. Recognizing our intersectional differences, and power differentials inherent in our different positions in academic hierarchies, we unite to write about our collective concerns regarding gendered, racialised, classed social relations. Coming together across intersectional differences in a writing community has been a vehicle to speak, relate, share, and voice our feelings and thoughts to document this historic moment and build a momentum to fulfill our hopes for social change. As feminists, we accept our responsibility to make this history written, rather than manipulated or erased, by breaking the mold in the form of multi-layered embodied texts to expand writing and doing research differently through re/writing otherness.


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Author(s): Abdellatif A, Aldossari M, Boncori I, Callahan J, Na Ayudhya UC, Chaudhry S, Kivinen N, Sarah Liu S-J, Utoft EH, Vershinina N, Yarrow E, Pullen A

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Gender, Work and Organization

Year: 2021

Volume: 28

Issue: 5

Pages: 1956-1979

Online publication date: 23/06/2021

Acceptance date: 21/06/2021

Date deposited: 22/08/2023

ISSN (print): 0968-6673

ISSN (electronic): 1468-0432

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc

URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12722

DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12722

Data Access Statement: The data that supports the findings of this study are available in the supplementary material of this article.


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