Black Feminist Thought

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?)…

Parachuting from the Pedestal: Creating a Community Safety Net

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…

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…

Turn the Volume Up: The Forgotten Mothers of Rock ’N’ Roll

Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton was an artist that created a genre of music that was based on black female excellence and denying the crushing stereotypes that existed for those who lived at the intersection of race and gender in…

Creating Authentic Black Feminist Theatrical Aesthetic

Theater allows experiences to be documented through text and performance, rather than merely theory. Lisa Anderson describes black feminist theater as the combination of “…playwrights, directors, performance artists and scholars who, intentionally or not, blend the core…

Ma Rainey’s Black Feminist Claiming of Her Sexuality

Ma Rainey, considered the mother of blues in many ways birthed a black female sexuality that is…

“The Right to Turn My Face to the Wall”: Manifestations of Mental Ill-Health in Black Womanhood

AfroCentricity, Sisterhood and African Feminisms: An African Woman’s Standpoint in Black Feminist Thought

*African Women: Women in Africa and the African Diaspora

Everyone that’s ever been to Africa writes about African women, but rarely do we see African women become storytellers of their own…

Race, Modernity, and Public Performance

In Dichotomies of reading ‘street poetry’ and ‘book poetry’, Kwame Dawes discusses a troubling dichotomy developing in the poetry world — street poetry versus book/published poetry. Street poetry is characterized by oral performance that is linked to poetic…