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
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black feminism
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
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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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