Voices in Movement highlights the power of Black feminists from around the world. Through interviews, storytelling, and more, Voices in Movement serves as an online hub for discussion, transnational exchange, and communication on and about Black feminisms.
NEWS
A celebration of Black feminist resistance featuring a screening and book talk with Dr. Jaimee Swift and film director, Pratibha Parmar.
As a part of “On Sisterhood and Sobreviver”, our latest archival project honoring Irmandade de Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte (Sisterhood of Our Lady of the Good Death), a Bahia, Brazil-based confraternity led by Black women that has existed for over 200 years, we celebrate the life and leadership of Dalva Damiana de Freitas, a member of the Sisterhood and a titan of samba de roda.
Black Women Radicals’ new visual and archival project highlights the enduring legacy of the Irmadade de Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte (Sisterhood of Our Lady of the Good Death), a Black woman-led abolitionist confraternity founded in 19th century Bahia, Brazil.
A photo recap from our We Are Each Other’s Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities book discussion at The Feminist Library in London.
Join us for the upcoming book talk at The Feminist Library in London for a book discussion on We Are Each Other’s Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities.
Join us for the upcoming event on femicide, Black women, and political resistance.
Politics
A study and tribute to the radical feminism of community leader and activist, Olive Morris.
Revolutionary Yolanda Guzmán’s courageous fight against dictatorship and imperialism reveals the struggles shaping Dominican democracy.
Exploring the radical feminist imagination of Ama Ata Aidoo, whose stories of womanhood, freedom, and belonging reshaped African feminism.
From her roots as the daughter of sharecroppers to her leadership in the welfare rights movement, Johnnie Tillmon redefined feminism through the lens of Black motherhood, economic justice, and political resistance.
Black Women Radicals is in solidarity with Black Brazilian women’s long-standing, collective, and ongoing struggle for human rights.
Society & Culture
Writer Karla Mendez examines the life of dancer and choreographer Judith Jamison, whose decades-long career indelibly shifted the landscape of dance.
Examining how Vivian Browne’s art and activism bridged the Black liberation and feminist movements while redefining the politics of representation.
Reflecting on the life of Elizabeth Catlett, a pioneering sculptor and printmaker whose work fused art and activism to honor the strength, resilience, and dignity of Black women across the African diaspora.
Reflecting on the extraordinary life of Dr. Edith Irby Jones–a trailblazing physician, civil rights activist, and the first Black American to break through several of the most entrenched racial barriers in Southern education and medicine.
Tracing the life and work of poet Lucille Clifton and her roots in ancestry, radical truth-telling, and memory.
Honoring the life and legacy of fierce artist, filmmaker, and archivist, Camille Billops, who made it her mission to preserve what the world tried to erase.
LGBTQ+
In the final installment of our Special Blog Issue, “50 Years of Combahee”, writer Kourtney Payne reflects on the Combahee River Collective and the power of Black feminism praxis as self-naming.
For our final installment for our Special Blog Issue, “50 Years of Combahee”, archivist and librarian Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz puts the Combahee River Collective and the Salsa Soul Sisters in conversation with one another as sister organizations who each contributed to 50-years of Black lesbian identity formations with very differing entry points and connections to lesbian identity.
Black Women Radicals hosted two events in New York City celebrating the 50th anniversary since the founding of the Combahee River Collective with founding member, Demita Frazier.
For the latest installment for our Special Blog Issue, “50 Years of Combahee”, scholar Ra Malika Imhotep examines the politics of Black lesbian socialist feminist kinship and play with Black dolls.
In the latest installment of our Special Blog Issue, “50 Years of Combahee”, scholar Olivia Polk reflects on the Combahee River Collective’s emergent strategic practices for building relationships, and complexifying our imagination in the face of multiscalar legacies of violence.
In the six installment of our Special Blog Issue, “50 Years of Combahee”, writer Sol Elias offers that restoring the transformative power of the Reproductive Justice Movement requires a return to the radical, Black Feminist politics articulated by the Combahee River Collective.
