“We need to understand that style and adornment have always been central to a feminist project and how feminists have defined themselves or pushed back against normative readings of the body.”
Tag: Black Feminist in Public Series
“The Lemonade Reader” Adds Beyoncé to the Black Feminist Canon
Kinitra Brooks and Kameelah Martin’s new collection adds to a growing list of works that comprise “Beyoncé Studies.”
Why Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Fuses Physics with Black Feminism
“I think that black scientists are thought of as mythological Afrofuturist beings. And it may be that we’re Afrofuturists, but we’re not mythological.”
Black Feminist in Public: How Rabi Musah Uses Chemistry to Advance Social Justice
“How do I take science and by solving a problem in science, address a problem that disproportionately affects women all over planet Earth? That’s my feminist agenda.”
Black Feminist in Public: Kasi Lemmons on Telling Harriet Tubman’s Freedom Story
“Harriet Tubman’s story is not about slavery. It’s about escaping from slavery. It’s about freedom.”
Black Feminist in Public: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Ms. talked to self-described “black feminist love evangelist,” poet, scholar and “queer troublemaker” Alexis Pauline Gumbs about her latest book: the experimental, poetic and futuristic “M Archive: After the End of the World.”
Black Feminist in Public: Filmmaker Amma Asante on History, Community and Centering Black Women’s Stories
“What was fundamental to me was to explore in Where Hands Touch what persecution looks like and what searching for an identity looks like as you’re coming of age without a community.”
Black Feminist in Public: Tamura Lomax on Discourse, Power and the Misreading of Jezebel
“The individual is significant. I think that’s how we get to the discourse in the first place. But now it’s time to move into the systemic, the institutional, the structural.”