Black Feminism

The Black History Behind the Country’s Oldest Women’s Center

May 3, 2021June 5, 2021 Say Burgin feminism, housing

This spring, the Cambridge Women’s Center, the US’s oldest women’s center, celebrated its 50th anniversary. Public commemorations included press attention

Black Lesbian Thought: An Interview with Briona Simone Jones

April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 Emerald Rutledge African Diaspora, black feminism, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Black women, Gender, Historical Memory, LGBT, literature, race, Resistance, sexuality

In today’s post, Emerald Rutledge, an associate editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Briona Simone Jones on her new edited collection, Mouths of

The Life and Work of Mary Church Terrell

March 25, 2021April 18, 2021 Malaurie Pilatte Activism, black feminism, Black women, Jim Crow, Resistance

As many across the U.S. were gearing up last year to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the nineteenth amendment and

The Power of Dr. Gwendolyn Patton’s Autobiography

March 15, 2021March 15, 2021 Ashley Farmer Activism, Black Power, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Racial Violence, Resistance

In 1967, Gwen Patton was driving to Montgomery, Alabama when her car started to rattle and stutter. She pulled over

Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World

February 26, 2021February 21, 2021 Robert D. Taber African Diaspora, archives, black feminism, Black women, Gender, race, slave trade, slavery

Trite historical surveys of the Black experience in the United States will feature questions of identity politics (Combahee River Collective