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Sherena Razek

Sherena Razek is a diasporic Palestinian feminist educator, scholar, activist, and labor organizer. She is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at UMass Boston and previously held a President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Gender Studies at UCLA. She received her PhD from the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University where she was the President of the Graduate Labor Organization and co-founder of the Palestine Solidarity Caucus. Her research and focuses on Palestinian visual culture, anti-imperialist struggle, and decolonial feminist ecologies.

A photo of a West Asian woman with olive skin, curly dark brown/black hair and brown eyes. She is looking directly at the camera, posed with one arm resting on her hip. Her hair is centre parted and falls to her waist and she wears a navy blue turtle neck, soft red lipstick, black mascara and silver earring. The photo is well lit by natural daylight and the background of the image is unfocused foliage and trees.

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A brightly lit landscape photo. In the foreground there’s a coniferous tree covered in pine cones. Beyond that there is a sparse landscape covered in shrubs and conifers. In the distance a city is visible, the city is made up of identical condominiums and tower blocks, with sky scrapers at the skyline jutting into a grey-blue sky.
12 November 2026, 10:30

A Conference of Butterflies

Anti-Denialist Museum of Palestine Carmel Alabassi Ayreen Anastas Mahmoud Alshaer Rene Gabri Michel Khleifi David Lloyd Peter Makhlouf Nicholas Mirzoeff Majdal Nateel Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Lara Sheehi Amirah Silmi Françoise Vergès Sherena Razek Zoé Samudzi Avery F. Gordon Additional Contributors

This edition of the Conference of Butterflies asks contributors to share words, notions, practices which nourish or obstruct our movements from perceiving and abolishing all the forces, forms, institutions maintaining the planetary regime of ongoing Nakba.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas