Writer Karla Mendez examines the life of dancer and choreographer Judith Jamison, whose decades-long career indelibly shifted the landscape of dance.
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Examining how Vivian Browne’s art and activism bridged the Black liberation and feminist movements while redefining the politics of representation.
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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.
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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.
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Tracing the life and work of poet Lucille Clifton and her roots in ancestry, radical truth-telling, and memory.
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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.
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In honor of the publication of her book, Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores, writer and bookseller, Katie Mitchell discusses the importance of Black bookstores, their role as sites of liberation, and community building through books.
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For “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.
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Reflecting on the work of photographer and multimedia artist Lorna Simpson.
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A reading list by Alexis De Veaux from her teach-in on “It’s All in the Reveal: Valerie Maynard, Revelation, and Black (Dis) Belonging” for The School for Black Feminist Politics.
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Writer Karla Mendez reflects on the power of Sonia Sanchez, whose pioneering work has changed the way we view poetry.
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Aurielle Marie’s poetry collection, Gumbo Ya Ya, is a demand for and insistence on the cultivation of other worlds where Black gxrls are free from constant violence, terror, regulation, and judgement – where joy, pleasure, and peace are not only possible but abundance.
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A reading list by Kharoll-Ann Souffrant from her teach-in “Pioneers Long Before #MoiAussi: Black Women, Rape Culture, and Digital Feminist Activism in Quebec” for the School for Black Feminist Politics.
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Check out our reading list from our Caribbean Feminisms Series.
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Dr. Francesca Sobande’s teach-in on “Black Women’s Media Experiences & the Rise of Brand “Woke-Washing” is a part of Black Women Radicals’ School For Black Feminist Politics.
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Black women and gender non-conforming and non-binary people’s histories, productions, leadership, and activism has often been overlooked, forgotten, and ignored in the United States and beyond. Here are 16 Black and Brown women-led archival projects that are reclaiming and restoring what white heteronormative patriarchal revisionist history tried to destroy and take from us.
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American poet, novelist, and playwright, Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote the poem “We Wear the Mask” in the early nineteenth century. The poem is one of the earliest enunciations of Black people’s experiences navigating between multiple worlds in the U.S. Now over 100 years later, his words are eerily relevant in the face of the 2020 COVID19 pandemic. As we think about the consequences and realties of living in the COVID-19 moment, two queer Black feminist scholars reexamine their own experiences of Black life, Black death, and Black material culture feeding into our newest iteration of the mask.
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Check out our “Black and Asian-American Feminist Solidarities” Reading List.
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Afro-Brazilian filmmaker, activist, and producer, Éthel Oliveira is on a mission to ensure that the life of the late Marielle Franco and the resistance and resiliency of Black people in Brazil are documented.
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Vilissa Thompson (she/her/hers) is making it known that Black disabled women, femmes, and non-binary folks are not waiting for a seat at the table––they have destroyed that “table” and are creating their own spaces and platforms on their own terms.
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