Keisha N. Blain

Author’s Response: The Power of Black Women’s Fury

I am indebted to the scholars who read Vengeance Feminism: The Power of Black Women’s Fury in Lawless Times (Seal,

I am a multigenerational survivor of domestic terror in the United States, most of it north of the Mason Dixon

We rarely read stories about unrespectable women. When we do, they are often white, middle class, heterosexual, and cisgender. Unrespectable

In the early summer of 2025, the nation became aware of the story of Adriana Smith, a Black woman from

Vengeance Feminism is a bold and timely Black feminist reading of Black women’s enactments of violence in the archives of