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
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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
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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
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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
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Online Roundtable–Kali Nicole Gross’s ‘Vengeance Feminism’
May 4–12, 2026 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Kali Nicole
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