Black Women Care Ethics, Radical Love, and the Anti-Black World: A Reading List by Breya Johnson
A reading list by Breya Johnson from her teach-in “Black Women Care Ethics, Radical Love, and the Anti-Black World” for the School for Black Feminist Politics.
On Sunday, March 27th at 3:30 PM EST. writer and educator Breya Johnson led her second teach-in “Black Women Care Ethics, Radical Love, and the Anti-Black World” of a two-part teach-in series for The School for Black Feminist Politics. You can watch the teach-in here.
About the teach-in: How do we teach care and love in a anti-black world? Is love possible? Does love even matter? Together we will grapple with the politics of love with the help of Black women writers. Is it possible to untether our understandings of care, love, and more from capitalist logics? Together we will interrogate the utility of these words.
About Breya Johnson: Breya M. Johnson (she/they) is a cultural worker and freelance writer living in Brooklyn NY. Her work looks at modes of disposability, Black health, reproductive justice, radical love, and abolition. She is interested in the inner workings of Black women and girls and is finding a location for healing in the writings of black folks globally. You can follow her @TheBlackLayers on Twitter and @theblackestlayers and @blackreadingtoheal on Instagram.
Black Women Care Ethics, Radical Love, and the Anti-Black World: A Reading List
Books:
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery by bell hooks
Belonging: A Culture of Place 1st Edition by bell hooks
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, 2005.
An Ethic of Care: Feminist and Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Mary Jeanne Larrabee
In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development by Carol Gilligan
In Search of Our Mothers Gardens by Alice Walker
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
Essays:
Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love-Politics, and Post-Intersectionality by Jennifer C. Nash
THE WOMB OF WESTERN THEORY: TRAUMA, TIME THEFT, AND THE CAPTIVE MATERNAL by Joy James
The Love Poetry of June Jordan By Peter Erickson
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self by Alice Walker
In the Name of Love by Sara Ahmed