Black Feminist Marronage: A Teach-In Series on Radical Black Feminist Worldmaking
Two girls look out the window of a “Freedom School.” © Ken Thompson, United Methodist Board of Global Ministries. Photo Source: Civil Rights Teaching.
Join us for a new teach-in series for The School for Black Feminist Politics on the power, possibilities, and perseverance of radical Black feminist worldmaking.
ma·roon
Noun.
maroon or Maroon: a Black person of the Americas who escaped slavery and formed or joined a free and often secluded settlement or a descendant of such a person.
Our new teach-in series, “Black Feminist Marronage” centers past, present, and future Black feminist marronage and is inspired by the power, self-determination, and activism of Black women and gender expansive communities around the world, and their unrepentant and unyielding fortitude in creating transformative places and spaces of sancturary, survival, and solidarity for ourselves and posterity.
This series also explores the multiform ways Black women and gender expansive communities have and continue to create new worlds and sites of refuge, restoration, and recovery across archival, digital, textual, physical, geographical, and spiritual methods and modalities, in spite of repression, intersectional anti-Black state and structural violence, citational and political erasure, and more.
This teach-in series asks:
How have Black feminists offered us blueprints, roadmaps, trailways, compasses, oceanways, and pathways on fugitivity freedom, and futurity?
In what ways will we build on these offerings to create maroons, palenques, mocambos, and quilombos of our own?
This teach-in series is a part of Black Women Radicals’ fundraiser to open a physical location for The School for Black Feminist Politics (SBFP), the political education arm of Black Women Radicals.
The mission of SBFP is to empower Black feminist politics from internationalist, intersectional, and multidisciplinary perspectives.
Support, donate, and learn more about our fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/black-women-radicals-a-school-for-all-of-us
Upcoming Courses for Black Feminist Marronage Series
The Essence of our Movement: Pan-Africanism and Global Black Feminism BY By Uche Ezejiofor
Left to right: Amy Jacques Garvey, Anna Julia Cooper, Josina Machel, Dara Abubakari, Claudia Jones, Shirley Graham DuBois, Queen Mother Audley Moore, and Bibi Titi Mohammed.
On Thursday, February 27 at 6:30 PM EST via Zoom, join us for the first teach-in for our Black Feminist Marronage Series, “The Essence of Our Movement: Pan-Africanism and Global Black Feminism” by Uche Ezejiofor. By engaging with the perspectives and political strategies of Global Black feminists, this teach-in establishes how children and marginalized genders embody the essence of Pan-African liberation. Together, we will examine the lived experiences that create a Pan-Africanist global Black feminist perspective, the historical legacy of Pan-African Feminists, and Pan-African strategic visions for a globally liberated future.
Register for the teach-in: https://bit.ly/TheEssenceofOurMovement
Learn more about the teach-in curator: www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/writer-uche-ezejiofor-to-lead-teach-in-on-pan-africanism-and-global-black-feminism