Upcoming Event: Where Do We Go From Here? The State and Future of Black Feminist Politics - An Intergenerational Conversation with Demita Frazier
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By Black Women Radicals
Join us for the upcoming Zoom event on “Where Do We Go From Here: The State and Future of Black Feminist Politics - An Intergenerational Conversation with Demita Frazier.”
On Wednesday, November 8th at 6:30 PM CT/7:30 PM ET, Black Women Radicals is hosting the upcoming event, “Where Do We Go From Here: The State and Future of Black Feminist Politics - An Intergenerational Conversation with Demita Frazier.”
The event is on Zoom. You can register here: https://bit.ly/DemitaFrazier
This event is in collaboration with Haymarket Books.
With the fall of Roe v. Wade; attacks against Critical Race Theory, and Race, Ethnic, and LGBTQ+ Studies; anti-trans legislation and bans on gender affirming care; mass shootings; environmental injustices; state violence and imminent genocides occurring in the Congo, Eritrea, Haiti, Palestine, and Sudan, there has and continues to be concentrated and sustained global white supremacist and fascist attacks against progressive legislation, rights, and protections. In spite of this repression, Black feminist organizers have and continue to be at the vanguard of radical freedom struggles and solidarity.
Featuring social justice activist, thought leader, writer, teacher, and founding member of the Combahee River Collective, Demita Frazier and an intergenerational panel of organizers, journalists, and creatives including Amethyst Davis and Uche Ezejiofor, this event examines the evolution of radical and revolutionary Black feminisms and offers insights on present-day and the future of Black feminist politics and resistance from intersectional, transnational, and abolitionist feminist frameworks.
This event will be moderated by Jaimee A. Swift, founder and executive director of Black Women Radicals and The School for Black Feminist Politics.
About the Speakers
Amethyst J. Davis (she/they) is responsible for spearheading the growth and development of the Harvey World Herald, a local news outlet in Chicago’s South Suburbs. She also produces “The Renaissance Letter,” the biweekly email newsletter, edits content, and fact-checks stories prior to publication. Amethyst was an administrator at New York University before launching her journalism career. She is also a member of the Sounding Board, the community advisory board for Chicago Public Media, which includes WBEZ Chicago and the Chicago Sun-Times. She was invited by Harvard University to submit a 2023 Nieman Lab prediction.
Uche Ezejiofor (they/them) is a queer Igbo Nigerian-American educator, writer, and cultural worker. As an educator, Uche draws upon West-African and liberatory pedagogical practices emphasizing communal responsibility, Black-Internationalist perspectives and creativity as tools for collective liberation. Their role as a cultural worker is embodied through their ability to foster environments for reflective critical dialogue aimed at healing and transforming our communities. As a writer, Uche harnesses the power of language to name the ambiguities of our lived experiences and hi(stories) through poetry, creative nonfiction, and experimental essays.
Demita Frazier (she/her) J.D., is an unrepentant life long Black feminist, social justice activist, thought leader, writer, and teacher. She is a founding member of the Combahee River Collective who has remained a committed activist in Boston for over 44 years, was a radical even as a child. While a high school student in Chicago, she helped organize a student walk out in protest of the Vietnam War. She has worked in coalition with many organizations on the issues of reproductive rights, domestic violence, the care and protection of endangered children, urban sustainability issues affecting food access in poor and working-class communities, and a host of other important issues affecting communities of color. She has been an organizer and architect behind the scenes of many movement initiatives including the Chicago Black Panther Party’s Breakfast Program, Jane Collective, and more. After receiving her JD from Northeastern University, Frazier contributed to local and national campaigns for gender and racial justice. For more on Demita’s extraordinary activist journey, please see Keeanga–Yamahtta Taylor’s How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. She has been a consistent advocate for the unequivocal freedom of Black women so that we can get on with the urgent business of freeing the world.
Jaimee A. Swift (she/her) is the creator, founder, and executive director of Black Women Radicals, a Black feminist advocacy organization dedicated to uplifting and centering Black women and gender expansive people's radical activism in Africa and in the African Diaspora. She is also the creator and founder of The School for Black Feminist Politics (SBFP), the Black feminist political education arm of Black Women Radicals. The mission of the SBFP is to empower Black feminisms in Black Politics by expanding the field from transnational, intersectional, and multidisciplinary perspectives. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Howard University. Swift is the co-author, along with Joseph R. Fitzgerald, of the forthcoming biography on Black feminist icon, Barbara Smith. A political scientist dedicated to uncovering, restoring, and restituting Black women and gender expansive people's political memories, movements, narratives, and leadership, Swift works with Black feminist activists, organizers, scholars, and educators from around the world to explore and expand on the power, possibilities, and futurity of Black feminisms.