Check out this reading list from our Zoom event, “Black Feminist Perspectives on COVID-19.”
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Check out this reading list from our Instagram Live event, “Black, Books, and the Quest for Liberation.”
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Every first Thursday of the month, Black Women Radicals will host “Afrekete Convos”, an IG Live series that highlights and uplifts Black women, non-binary, and gender non-conforming activists, artists, and changemakers around the world. This series is in honor of and inspired by the self-described “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” that was and is Audre Lorde.
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A poet, writer, and editor, Maya Marshall is an ingenious literary force to be reckoned with.
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Dynamic and determined, activist and artist Krü Maekdo (who uses fluid pronouns) is dedicated to ensuring that the activism, histories, leadership, and lives of Black lesbians are not overlooked.
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Scholar-activist and filmmaker Dr. Sharrelle Barber (she/her) attended the event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where Afro-Brazilian activist and human rights defender, Marielle Franco, spoke at hours before she was murdered. It was a night that truly would change Barber’s life and forever commit her to not only sharing Franco’s story but also to catalyzing transnational, Black feminist solidarities.
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As a pioneering poet, activist, essayist, and educator, Dr. Cheryl Clarke has and continues to center and uplift radical Black lesbian feminist literature and organizing. We honor her.
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At 15-years-old, human rights activist, poet, educator, Black Panther Party leader, and former political prisoner, Ericka Huggins (she/her) made a vow to serve humanity at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. Now at 72, the revolutionary is still just as dedicated and committed to the vow she made 57 years ago.
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A prolific author, novelist, writer, activist, and advocate, Marita Golden is a literary genius whose words and work continue to inspire across generations.
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Afro-Brazilian filmmaker, activist, and producer, Éthel Oliveira is on a mission to ensure that the life of the late Marielle Franco and the resistance and resiliency of Black people in Brazil are documented.
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An activist, advocate, and abolitionist, Janetta Louise Johnson’s (she/her) leadership, testimony, and radical compassion and perseverance is an inspiration to the many people that know her and admire her from afar.
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As militantes afro-brasileiras LGBTQ + estão revolucionando a política em Salvador, Bahia, Brasil. Você precisa saber seus nomes.
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Vilissa Thompson (she/her/hers) is making it known that Black disabled women, femmes, and non-binary folks are not waiting for a seat at the table––they have destroyed that “table” and are creating their own spaces and platforms on their own terms.
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Dr. Shannen Williams (she/her/hers) is uncovering the largely hidden history of Black Catholic sisters and their formidable roots, activism and leadership in the Black radical tradition and the Black freedom struggle.
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A radical Black lesbian feminist activist icon, Barbara Smith laid a formidable blueprint and foundation to intersectional Black feminist thought and behavior. Black feminism would not be where it is today without the power of Smith’s work, leadership, and commitment to the liberation struggle.
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In a white, cisheteronormative, patriarchal, and capitalist world that chronically enacts violence against the Black transgender community, activist, actress, and community organizer Ianne Fields Stewart (she/her/they/them) is catalyzing safe and luxurious spaces where the Black transgender community is not only seen and heard but are being fed.
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A powerhouse political activist, feminist, journalist, community organizer, anthropologist, and the former Minister of Economic Development of The Young Lords Party and member of the Black Panther Party, Denise Oliver-Velez is still and will always be radical, rebellious, and militantly Black.
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Black Women Radicals’ Blog, “Voices in Movement,” welcomes you to engage with our March 2020 theme, Sankofa: Honoring Our Black Feminist Pioneers.
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Dr. Mame-Fatou Niang is undoing historical and contemporary revisionist French history that has tried to erase the contributions, leadership, and political achievements of Black French Radical Women in France and in the French Empire.
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For Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, who is popularly known as Lady Phyll (she/hers/hers), Black Queer Feminist Belonging does not mean creating collectives in response to white exclusion––it means recognizing that Black LGBTQ+ people in the United Kingdom exist whether they are in those spaces or not.
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