Notes on the Radical Black Feminist Imagination: A New Teach-In Series

A collage of Toni Morrison celebrating the launch of Black Women Radicals’ new teach-in series, “Notes on the Radical Black Feminist Imagination.” Photo of Toni Morrison by Helen Mae Marcus.

Join us for our new teach-in series on the Radical Black Feminist Imagination for The School for Black Feminist Politics.

Imagination––the power to catalyze and create ideas, interventions, and inventions of things not yet present; of things that are present yet are being expanded on; or possibilities of things yet to come––are central to Black feminist thought, behavior, and becoming. Whether it is called imagination, dreams, possibility, curiosity, or fantasy, Black women, queer, transgender, and gender expansive communities have always been in the “business” of making the impossible possible and making our imaginations possible; of making a way out of no way.

In harkening onto the tradition of making a way out of no way, this teach-in series explores mechanisms and modalities of the radical Black feminist imagination. How does the radical Black feminist imagination flourish, shrink, lessen, stagnate, survive, and endure under anti-Black, fascist, and authoritarian regimes? This teach-in series tends to this question by focusing on the radical Black feminist imagination as an aegis of possibility, panacea, revival, survival, reckoning, and becoming.

The first event in the teach-in series will be announced soon.