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Online Roundtable: Keisha N. Blain’s ‘Set the World on Fire’

September 10, 2018October 18, 2018 AAIHS Editors Activism, black internationalism, black politics, Black women, black women's internationalism, Politics, Set the World on Fire

September 24-28, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of

Disability, Race, and Gender in Speculative Fiction

August 3, 2018August 8, 2018 Grace D. Gipson Afrofuturism, black feminism, Black women, blackness, disability, Gender, intersectionality, literature

“I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there

State Violence and Pregnant Black Mothers

July 24, 2018July 26, 2018 Marlo David Black women, carceral state, Gender, motherhood, police violence

For Black women, pregnancy presents a multiplying set of vulnerabilities which illuminate the intersectional frames of race, gender, and class

Challenging the Boundaries of Women’s History and Beyond

July 23, 2018July 26, 2018 Sasha Turner academia, Black women, black women scholars, Gender, Politics

Earlier this year, the Coordinating Council for Women in History issued a statement condemning the all-white male conference held at

Paule Marshall’s “Brooklyn” and the #MeToo Movement

July 18, 2018July 23, 2018 Lavelle Porter Black women, Civil Rights Movement, New York, Racial Violence, sexual violence

“Sexual harassment? We didn’t even think to use the term back in the early fifties when this story takes place,”