#Introduction - Here as part of #twittermigration!

I'm a #publicpolicy practitioner by day and a #sociology #PhD student by night, studying the application of #intersectionality in government. Based on unceded Wurundjeri lands (so-called #Melbourne #Australia.

Interests include #socialsciences #socialpolicy #inequality #BlackFeminism #CriticalRaceTheory #auspol #policystudies #feminism. Particularly keen to follow other #WomenOfColor #WoC in #academia!

Am I doing this right?

"Always ally yourself with those on the bottom, on the margins, and at the periphery of the centers of power. And in doing so, you will land yourself at the very center of some of the most important struggles of our society and our history."

Barbara Ransby, in How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, ed)

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFeminism

"[W]e don’t just want a seat at the table. We want the table. We want to decide who is sitting at the table. Right? And then maybe we want to get rid of the table."

Alicia Garza, in How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, ed)

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFeminism

"Although we are feminists and Lesbians, we feel solidarity with progressive Black men and do not advocate the fractionalization that white women who are separatists demand."

The Combahee River Collective, The Combahee River Collective Statement (April 1977) in How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor, ed)

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFeminism

We realize that the liberation of all oppressed peoples necessitates the destruction of the political-economic systems of capitalism and imperialism as well as patriarchy.

The Combahee River Collective, The Combahee River Collective Statement (April 1977) in How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor, ed.

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFeminism

"The Combahee River Collective (CRC) was a radical black feminist organization formed in 1974 and named after Harriet Tubman's 1853 raid on the Combahee River in South Carolina that freed 750 enslaved people."

The Combahee River Collective, The Combahee River Collective Statement (April 1977) in How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor, ed.

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFeminism

"The mind of the man and the mind of the woman is the same, but this business of living makes women use their minds in ways that men don't even have to think about."

Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFeminism

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFeminism

"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression."

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFeminism

"Suppressing the knowledge produced by any oppressed group makes it easier for dominant groups to rule because the seeming absence of dissent suggests that subordinate groups willingly collaborate in their own victimization."

Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFeminism

"Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential for the survival of the subordinate."

Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFeminism

"Within U.S. culture, racist and sexist ideologies permeate the social structure to such a degree that they become hegemonic, namely, seen as natural, normal, and inevitable."

Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFeminism

"It is important to stress that no homogeneous Black woman's standpoint exists. There is no essential or archetypal Black woman whose experiences stand as normal, normative, and thereby authentic."

Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

op de voorgrond van #blackfeminism, waar eind jaren 80, begin jaren 90 ook #saltnPepa, #NVogue en #TLC  toe behoren.
Later zal ook #Beyonce een boegbeeld worden, voor miljoenen zwarte maar ook andere vrouwen.
De derde golf is ingezet, en zal pas stoppen eind jaren negentig, begin 2000 met een golf aan vrouwelijke superhelden die ook in beeld komen.
De term derde golf wordt toegeschreven aan #RebeccaWalker, die reageerde op de benoeming van Clarence Thomas bij het hooggerechtshof.

op de voorgrond van #blackfeminism, waar eind jaren 80, begin jaren 90 ook #saltnPepa, #NVogue en #TLC  toe behoren.
Later zal ook #Beyonce een boegbeeld worden, voor miljoenen zwarte maar ook andere vrouwen.
De derde golf is ingezet, en zal pas stoppen eind jaren negentig, begin 2000 met een golf aan vrouwelijke superhelden die ook in beeld komen.
De term derde golf wordt toegeschreven aan #RebeccaWalker, die reageerde op de benoeming van Clarence Thomas bij het hooggerechtshof.

@theneurotrust @schock

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

The Right to Sex - Amia Srinivasan (read in 2021 but I keep going back to it because it's brilliant)

Hood Feminism - Mikki Kendall

#BlackTwitter #BlackMastodon
#BlackAcademia #Books #FeministPhilosophy #BlackFeminism

really excited to share that my submission was accepted by the first inaugural bell hooks center Symposium at Berea College 🎉

My paper's title is "'Almost as Free as She Was in Freedom': Black Midwifery and Subjugated Black Feminist Epistemologies."

#BlackFeminism #BlackStudies #BlackMastadon #Midwifery #Herbalism #Healing

If you missed the dope conversation between me and Dr. Aria Halliday, you can catch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyX7YpDq0yI

#BlackFeminism #hiphop #popculture #queer #books #academia #zoom

If you missed the dope conversation between me and Dr. Aria Halliday, you can catch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyX7YpDq0yI

#BlackFeminism #hiphop #popculture #queer #books #academia #zoom

I’m going to be graduating soon, but I still feel like I’m still a beginner in #anthropology I feel like I learn about a new topic or subfield every week and my interests change just as frequently :D This week my #anth interests have included: #intersectionality #BlackFeminism #womanism

Does anyone know of journals that might accept/are looking for reviews of Hugh Ryan’s “The Women’s House of Detention” and Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie’s “No More Police”? I have to review three books for a final project, and the other is “Incarcerated Resistance” by Anya Stanger for Gender & Society.
#sociology #womenandgenderstudies #lgbtq #sexuality #gender #queer #queerbooks #feminism #blackfeminism #feminist #feministbooks #abolition