Black Feminist Marronage: A Teach-In Series on Radical Black Feminist Worldmaking
Two girls look out the window of a “Freedom School.” © Ken Thompson, United Methodist Board of Global Ministries. Photo Source: Civil Rights Teaching.
Join us for a new teach-in series for The School for Black Feminist Politics on the power, possibilities, and perseverance of radical Black feminist worldmaking.
ma·roon
Noun.
maroon or Maroon: a Black person of the Americas who escaped slavery and formed or joined a free and often secluded settlement or a descendant of such a person.
Our new teach-in series, “Black Feminist Marronage” centers past, present, and future Black feminist marronage and is inspired by the power, self-determination, and activism of Black women and gender expansive communities around the world, and their unrepentant and unyielding fortitude in creating transformative places and spaces of sanctuary, survival, and solidarity for ourselves and posterity.
This series also explores the multiform ways Black women and gender expansive communities have and continue to create new worlds and sites of refuge, restoration, and recovery across archival, digital, textual, physical, geographical, and spiritual methods and modalities, in spite of repression, intersectional anti-Black state and structural violence, citational and political erasure, and more.
This teach-in series asks:
How have Black feminists offered us blueprints, roadmaps, trailways, compasses, oceanways, and pathways on fugitivity freedom, and futurity?
In what ways will we build on these offerings to create maroons, palenques, mocambos, and quilombos of our own?
This teach-in series is a part of Black Women Radicals’ fundraiser to open a physical location for The School for Black Feminist Politics (SBFP), the political education arm of Black Women Radicals.
The mission of SBFP is to empower Black feminist politics from internationalist, intersectional, and multidisciplinary perspectives.
Support, donate, and learn more about our fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/black-women-radicals-a-school-for-all-of-us
Upcoming Courses for Black Feminist Marronage Series
UPCOMING Teach-In: “CARETAKING AS CULTURAL WORK-Lessons from toni cade bambara and HELEN DANIEL” By Zoe bambara
On Tuesday, June 17th at 6:30 PM EST, join us for the upcoming teach-in, “Caretaking as Cultural Work: Lessons from Toni Cade Bambara and Helen Daniel” by Zoe Bambara.
You can register for the teach-in here: https://bit.ly/ZoeBambara
Read more about the teach-in and teach-in curator here: https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/upcoming-teach-in-zoe-bambara
About the teach-in: I come from a line of two grandmothers who genuinely centered their communities: Toni Cade Bambara and Helen Daniel. Both were caretakers and cultural workers in their own right, laying the foundation for what I consider true organizing. My maternal grandmother, Toni, was a writer, organizer, and filmmaker. She fought oppressive systems through her art and knew how to engage with the community in meaningful ways to meet people’s material needs. My paternal grandmother, whom I called Mamas, was a mother of six and established the "Feeding the Unhoused Ministry" at Mt. Ephraim Church. She consistently looked after the children in the neighborhoods of Adamsville and Athens, Georgia. Even though they came from vastly different backgrounds, both grandmothers centered the communities around them. How can we call ourselves organizers if we don’t even know our neighbors' names? Cultural work takes many forms. In this teach-in, we will discuss how to find our place in the community, fill in the gaps, and honor our ancestors while doing so
PAST Teach-In: “Black Feminist Marronage in London: The Enduring Legacy” of Amy Ashwood Garvey
On Saturday, May 10th from 12:30 PM EST/5:30 GMT +1, we hosted teach-in for The School for Black Feminist Politics, “Black Feminist Marronage in London: The Enduring Legacy of Amy Ashwood Garvey” by Dr. Nydia A. Swaby.
You can watch the teach-in here: https://youtube.com/live/cIC7Dm1tadc
About the teach-in: “Black Feminist Marronage in London: The Enduring Legacy of Amy Ashwood Garvey” explores Amy Ashwood Garvey’s creation of diasporic social spaces in London as acts of Black feminist marronage. Centering on the Florence Mills Social Parlour and the Afro Women’s Centre and Residential Club, it situates Ashwood Garvey’s activism within the broader history of Black women’s claims to home, safe space, and community-building. In a city structured to exclude Black belonging, Ashwood Garvey enacted urban marronage, creating spaces that transcended their roles as shelters or meeting places to become sites of diasporic refuge and self-determination.
For more information about the event, please visit: https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/upcoming-teach-amy-ashwood-garvey
PAST Event: "African Feminist MarRonage: On the Power of African Feminist World/Space/Placemaking"
On Saturday, May 3rd at 3:00 PM GMT/11:00 AM EST, join us for our upcoming event in collaboration with The Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD) titled, "African Feminist Marronage: On the Power of African Feminist World/Space/Placemaking.”
The event will be held in-person at LOATAD, which is located in the Adenta Municipality in Accra, Ghana.
Speakers for this event include Vida Agbolosu, Noor Elfaki, vangile gantsho and Tracy Owoo.
You can watch the event here: https://youtu.be/oUZxAX3Byks
For more information about the event, please visit: https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/african-feminist-marronage
PAST EVENT: “The Essence of our Movement: Pan-Africanism and Global Black Feminism” BY By Uche Ezejiofor
Left to right: Amy Jacques Garvey, Anna Julia Cooper, Josina Machel, Dara Abubakari, Claudia Jones, Shirley Graham DuBois, Queen Mother Audley Moore, and Bibi Titi Mohammed.
On Thursday, February 27 at 6:30 PM EST via Zoom, join us for the first teach-in for our Black Feminist Marronage Series, “The Essence of Our Movement: Pan-Africanism and Global Black Feminism” by Uche Ezejiofor. By engaging with the perspectives and political strategies of Global Black feminists, this teach-in establishes how children and marginalized genders embody the essence of Pan-African liberation. Together, we will examine the lived experiences that create a Pan-Africanist global Black feminist perspective, the historical legacy of Pan-African Feminists, and Pan-African strategic visions for a globally liberated future.
You can watch the event here: https://youtube.com/live/c12OGzjy1kI
Learn more about the teach-in curator: www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/writer-uche-ezejiofor-to-lead-teach-in-on-pan-africanism-and-global-black-feminism