Framing Black Women’s Lives in Philadelphia
I am a multigenerational survivor of domestic terror in the United States, most of it north of the Mason Dixon ...
Fury and Disrepute: Black Women’s Feminism in Lawless Times
We rarely read stories about unrespectable women. When we do, they are often white, middle class, heterosexual, and cisgender. Unrespectable ...
Black Women’s Criminalization, Sexual Exploitation, and Dehumanization
In the early summer of 2025, the nation became aware of the story of Adriana Smith, a Black woman from ...
Honor, Fury, and Reproductive Retribution in Philadelphia
Vengeance Feminism is a bold and timely Black feminist reading of Black women’s enactments of violence in the archives of ...
Black Women Fighting Back: Philadelphia Style
Black women’s history is filled with examples of individual women—and the organizations they helped to create—fighting back against a host ...
Weapons of the Furious: Vengeance Feminism as “Loving Correction”
Kali Nicole Gross’s Vengeance Feminism: The Power of Black Women's Fury in Lawless Times opens with the story of how ...
