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.
Read MoreBlack 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.
Read MoreFor 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.
Read MoreCelebrating the NYC launch of Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities anthology.
Read MoreOur latest t-shirt capsule with Philadelphia PrintWorks honors 45 years since the founding of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the first publishing house for and by women of color in North America.
Read MoreSix Years of Black Women Radicals: Read Our Impact Report.
Read MoreThe next teach-in for our Black Feminist Marronage Series will be led by storyteller Sylvia Arthur, who will chronicle the lives and archival afterlives of West African women elders.
Read MoreFor the latest installment of our Special Blog Issue, “50 Years of Combahee”, Kiersten TâLéigh Gillette-Pierce examines the harmful impacts of biological essentialism, benevolent cisheterosexsim, and anti-Black and anti-Trans affective labor in the Black Reproductive Justice Movement in a radical pamphlet.
Read MoreFrom 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.
Read MoreFor “50 Years of Combahee”, scholar, curator, and critic Tiffany E. Barber reflects on how the Combahee River Collective helped form her worldview and considers its influence on Black feminist art.
Read MoreFor the latest installment for our Special Blog Issue, “50 Years of Combahee”, we are sharing remarks by Black Brazilian feminist photographer Anastácia Flora Oliveira from her speech during Black Women Radicals’ online event, “50 Years of Combahee: Honoring Demita Frazier and Barbara Smith.”
Read MoreJoin us for “Maroon Archives: Cartographies of Freedom”, an online collaboration between Black Women Radicals and Kinfolk Tech.
Read MoreWatch the playback of the teach-in, “Forging Black Sovereignty: Queen Mother Audley Moore's Uncompromising Commitment to Black Nation Building” by Dr. Ashley D. Farmer for The School for Black Feminist Politics.
Read MoreJournalist and activist JoNina Abron-Ervin spoke with Black Women Radicals’ Lead Editor of Black Feminist Histories and Movements, Karla Méndez to discuss her new book, Driven by the Movement: Reports from the Black Power Era, which examines her experience being the last editor of the Black Panther newspaper and the importance of everyday people in liberatory movements.
Read MoreBlack Women Radicals is in solidarity with Black Brazilian women’s long-standing, collective, and ongoing struggle for human rights.
Read MoreIn the latest installment of our Special Blog Issue, “50 Years of Combahee”, writer Priyanka Kotamraju analyzes how Dalit feminists conceptualized a programmatic statement of their beliefs and a concrete manifesto of their actions and used the Combahee River Collective’s Black feminist statement as a roadmap to articulate their politics.
Read MoreDr. Ashley Farmer, author of the forthcoming biography, Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore, will lead a teach-in for The School for Black Feminist Politics on the radical leadership of Queen Moore.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreA reading list by Zoe Bambara from the teach-in, “Caretaking as Cultural Work: Lessons from Toni Cade Bambara and Helen Daniel” for The School for Black Feminist Politics.
Read MoreReflecting on the work of photographer and multimedia artist Lorna Simpson.
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