Toward Sanctuary (and Loving Black Boys): Black Feminist Mothering, an Alternative Literacy, Philosophy, and Practice Available to Purchase

The coda explores violence against two Black women, one shot by a white woman, the other shot by a Black man, as a premise to outline foundational ideas for materializing black sanctuaries necessary for black survival, relations, and radical resistance. A requisite politics for sanctuary is black feminism. Sanctuary begins with a basic acknowledgment of Black cisgender women’s and girls’ autonomy. All other points of recognition, such as genders and sexualities, evolve from that. Namely, grasping Black cisgender women’s and girls’ autonomy is vital for resisting misogynoir against Black transgender, nonbinary, gender-fluid, and queer women and girls. A requisite critical gaze within black feminism for building sanctuary/ies is revolutionary black feminist mothering.