This article is an expansion of the Feminist Lecture that I gave at the Sociologists for Women in Society Meetings in April 2021. I map my journey toward conocimiento, highlighting the centrality of my volunteer work with asylum seekers, traveling to their sponsors after being released from ICE detention, for the development of my identity as a scholar activist. I rely on two theories, intersectionality and spiritual activism—both developed by women of color scholars to guide our efforts toward social change—to illustrate how scholars can reconcile their roles as community activists with their roles as scholars in academia. I bring intersectionality and spiritual activism together, as distinct (albeit complementary) resistant knowledge projects that, in tandem, support my critique of sociology’s competing commitments to objective empirical research and social justice. I chronicle how strengthening my conocimiento has served as a tool in my efforts to transgress the discipline and ultimately how it helped me find a more authentic existence within the academy.

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越轨的桥梁：社区参与如何加强我的Conocimiento


本文是我在 2021 年 4 月举行的妇女参与社会社会学家会议上所做的女权主义讲座的扩展。我描绘了我走向conocimiento的旅程，强调了我与寻求庇护者一起志愿工作的中心地位，在被释放后前往他们的资助者那里。 ICE 拘留，是为了发展我作为一名学者活动家的身份。我依靠交叉性和精神行动主义这两种理论——这两种理论都是由有色人种女性学者发展起来的，旨在指导我们实现社会变革的努力——来说明学者们如何协调自己作为社区活动家的角色与学术界学者的角色。我将交叉性和精神行动主义结合在一起，作为独特的（尽管是互补的）抵抗性知识项目，它们同时支持我对社会学对客观实证研究和社会正义的竞争承诺的批评。我记录了加强我的conocimiento如何成为我努力违反纪律的工具，以及最终它如何帮助我在学院中找到更真实的存在。