Perfect thread!

What is a book, article, zine, etc., by a Black feminist that changed your life? 📖📚📓

#blackwomenradicals

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Wonderful essay on Claudia Jones here by Prof Carole Boyce-Davies:
https://jacobin.com/2023/02/claudia-jones-communist-theory-black-feminism-internationalism

#BlackMastodon
#BlackWomenRadicals
#BlackInternationalism
#TrinidadAndTobago
#CaribbeanStudies
#CaribbeanIntellectuals

Some people have an interest in learning about other Black folks across the Diaspora, but don't know where to start.

If you are looking to expand your knowledge of #BlackHistory to beyond the countries you live, #BlackWomenRadicals
is a great source of jumping off points.

Caribbean Feminism: A Reading List
https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/caribbean-feminisms-a-reading-list

#BlackMastodon #AfricanHistory #CaribbeanHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackFedi #BlackTwitter #BlackFediverse

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Rest in Peace and Power, Dorothy Pittman Hughes, who passed away on December 1.

Hughes was a Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong activist who co-founded Ms. Magazine with Gloria Steinem.

#blackwomenradicals

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She began her activism by raising bail money for civil rights protesters. In the late 1960s, needing care for her own children, she organized a multiracial cooperative day care center on the West Side, the West 80th Community Childcare Center.

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Rest in Peace and Power, Dorothy Pittman Hughes, who passed away on December 1.

Hughes was a Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong activist who co-founded Ms. Magazine with Gloria Steinem.

#blackwomenradicals

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Rest in Peace and Power, Dorothy Pittman Hughes, who passed away on December 1.

Hughes was a Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong activist who co-founded Ms. Magazine with Gloria Steinem.

#blackwomenradicals

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📸: Afro-Brazilian scholar, activist, and theorist Lélia Gonzalez (February 1, 1935 – July 10, 1994) (left) at Seminars on Feminism in Senegal in 1992. Photo Credit: Acervo Lélia Gonzalez.

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💫We are so excited to welcome Jaedyn Griddine to the BWR team! Jaedyn is the curator intern for the Black Women Radicals Database, which houses 100+ profiles on historical Black women leaders!

Learn more: https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/database

#blackwomenradicals

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On this day, Fred Hampton was assassinated by the US government in 1969. He was 21.

While it’s important to remember Hampton’s leadership, it’s critically important to remember Akua Njeri, an activist, survivor of the 1969 attack & widow of Hampton.

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“After I decided to be an artist, the first thing that I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene & that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity.”

— Faith Ringgold

#blackwomenradicals

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“I have been a lesbian all my life, for eighty-two years, and I am proud of myself and my people. I would like all my people to be free in this world, my gay people and my black people.”

— Mabel Hampton

#blackwomenradicals #BlackDiasporaPride
#PrideMonth

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month. What books are you reading that focus on Black women’s mental health? 📚

We are reading “Black Women’s Mental Health: Balancing Strength & Vulnerability” (2017)

Tell us below what you’re reading 👇🏾📚

#blackwomenradicals

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It’s been 434 days since the assassination of Marielle Franco
& we still don’t have answers.

We will never forget you, Marielle, or your fight for justice.

#QuemMandouMatarMarielle
#MariellePresente
#LuteComoMarielle
#blackwomenradicals

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Who are historical #blackwomenradicals that are overlooked in scholarship in Black Politics & in Black political grassroots organizing?

Marsha P. Johnson does not receive enough credit for her contributions in shaping Black political thought & behavior.

We honor you, Marsha.

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