Black Feminist Thought 2016

Parachuting from the Pedestal: Creating a Community Safety Net

Soul Food: Black Women’s Voices Missing from the Definition of a Cuisine

Carefree Black Boys: The Reconstruction of Black Masculinity

The work of black feminist thought seeks to create spaces where the most marginalized voices are raised and validated. Black feminism seeks to break down systems that actively oppress black women, and the work that she does…

Horizontal Leadership as Black Feminist Praxis

Leadership! That’s where one person tells everyone else what to do right? Well maybe sometimes… But there are plenty of ways of building power that are more nuanced and less understood than that. Horizontal leadership, also known as decentralized, nonhierarchical, shared, and…

“From God and a Woman”: Black Feminist Theology, from Biblical Feminism to Womanism

Suck My Dick: The Intentionally Hypersexualized Persona of Lil Kim

Lil Kim’s Use of The Erotic As An Embodiment of Black Feminism
By R Matthews

“Nigga FUCK YOU
(No, FUCK YOU BITCH)
Who you talking to?
(Why you actin’ like a BITCH?)…

Beyond Worker and Intellectual: A Historiography of Black Women in the Communist Movement

Why is School So Boring?! 3 Ways Black Feminist Pedagogy Can Radically Improve Our Learning

I am currently immersed in a wildly exciting learning experience: AAAS/WGS 136: Black Feminist Thought with Professor Johnson at Brandeis University. The classroom is a haven…

Black Women Getting the Word Out:

Publishing Black Literature and Black Women’s Narratives

Writing a narrative can serve as a form of validation — a record of experience, thought, and feeling. The process of writing a narrative, whether…