Suzanne Pharr is a southern queer feminist and anti-racist organizer. She founded the Women’s Project in Arkansas in 1981, was a co-founder of Southerners on New Ground in 1984, and was director of the Highlander Center from 1999 to 2004. Pharr is an organizer and political strategist who has spent her adult life working to build a broad-based, multiracial, multi-issued movement for social and economic justice in the United States. Since 1980, Pharr has been tracking the growth of a US authoritarian movement and providing political education about its goals, strategies, and leadership.
Pharr is the author of Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism (1988), In the Time of the Right: Reflections on Liberation (1996), and Transformation: Toward a People’s Democracy (2021).
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In the Time of the Right: Reflections on Liberation
In the Time of the Right: Reflections on Liberation, 2nd Edition constructs a progressive view of the politics of our time that is accessible to students, activists, and all who are trying to understand the threat to democracy by the Right. A longtime social justice worker from the South, Pharr blends personal anecdotes and contemporary cutting-edge analysis – combined with the vision of a multicultural, multiracial liberation movement – to create a powerful call to action for each of us.
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