“She came to slay slavery. She came to remove her friends and family from the most violent system in the United States. She came, and she did it, armed and ready.”
Black Feminist in Public (Series)
Tanisha C. Ford’s Black Feminist Love Letter to Fashion
“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.”
“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.”