...Miglena S. Todorova Abstract Recent scholarship on Black American women and feminists in the radical Left documents how these women's travel to the Soviet Union and other socialist countries in the twentieth century influenced their understanding of racism, imperialism, patriarchy, and capitalism...

...Laura Lomas Abstract The exiled Cuban poet, editor, and feminist Lourdes Casal breaks with social scientific convention and identifies in the first person with “Hispanic Blackness,” feminism, and Cuba in her essays about race and revolution. Her bridging of identity categories informs Casal’s self...

... increased state policing and surveillance of Indigenous communities and communities of color, which simultaneously struggle with heightened economic insecurity and vulnerability. Black race-radical, Indigenous, and revolutionary women of color feminisms all explicitly challenge liberalism as expressed...

..., and feminism have been overlooked in popular and academic works. In this essay, I aim to bridge some of these conversations by linking early works of radical feminists of color with contemporary hip-hop feminism in an effort to frame Ndegeocello's contributions to hip-hop culture, Black queer identity...

... for everydaychanges and transformations in the sex trade and for policies and practices that would strengthen them as autonomous, knowing subjects. We could also acknowledge their efforts as part of the contemporary transnational women's movement. Legacies of Black radical feminism and Third World feminism position...

... the work of second-wave love-practitioners so radical is a fundamental investment in love as a practice of self-work. If Black feminism’s commitment to love has been amplified as an interest in a transformative labor of the self, it has also manifested itself through an advocacy of the formation...

... of an Afro-Colombian student who wanted to write on Black feminism, simply asserting it supposedly doesnot exist(esono existe).The student fought against this expression of academic racism, finished her proposed thesis, and now is a leading voice in a rising tide ofBlack and Indigenous feminist theory...

... feminist love-politics proposes a departure from the identitarian political work that is so often associated with black feminism. Where proto-intersectional groups like the Combahee River Collective insisted that "we believe that the most profound and potentially the most radical politics come directly out...

... Motsemmi’s ( 2004 ) reading of “violence and place,” which helped me lean more closely toward the yearning for new spaces of intellectual feminist discourse and solidarity. Such radical thinking about the interactions of black femaleness with colonial and neocolonial infrastructures of patriarchal power...

... do it for me like queer Black and Chicana feminisms and "This Bridge Called My Back" (Moraga and Anzaldua 1983) feminist praxis would. While "a principled sense of mortal urgency" (Gilmore 2007, 251) has continued to propel me to act, the feminist thought of race-radical women of color has continued...

... affinities—not to mention the long history of Black internationalism in the United States—their radical intervention was still largely U.S. centric, as was the Brave anthology itself. Likewise, given area studies’s origins in the Cold War U.S. anti-communist intelligence community, early Latin American...

... and black feminist genealogies? Could transnational feminism decenter the Global North as a touchstone or default comparative for women’s experiences worldwide and include geographies that were Pacific, African, Latin American, and Caribbean? What was the potential of transnational feminism to shed light...

...," its necessary acknowledgment of what cannot be known, can make knowledge production within the context of the university a process that enables, rather than extinguishes, black feminists. As JoyJames has argued, black feminism is not monolithic, but has liberal, radical, and revolutionary trajectories...

... indispensable to forging feminist, pro-social justice, antiracist, postcolonial/decolonial, and anti-imperial political alliances and epistemologies. This is particularly the case among Afro-descendant feminisms and all who embrace anti-racist politics; the "intertwined diasporas" that forged Blackness...

... Chisholm's status as a "pioneer in developing an intersectional black feminist praxis" in her campaigns, and argues that it was her embrace of feminism in the late 196os that radicalized her (Guild 2009, 250, 257-258). Concurring with Guild's assessment, I engage more closely with her activities while she...

... required a re-elaboration of discourse and of the political practices offeminism. The determining element altering the ideological perspective of the political practice of feminism has been the emerging black women's movement. Blackening Feminism "Blackening feminism" is the expression we have been using...

...Whitney A. Peoples Abstract This essay seeks to explore the sociopolitical objectives of hip-hop feminism, to address the generational ruptures that those very objectives reveal, and to explore the practical and theoretical qualities that second- and third-wave generations of black feminists have...

... and their health. CHINYERE OKAFOR Black Feminism Embodiment: A Theoretical Geography of Home, Healing, and Activism Abstract This paper aims to uplift a story by a queer Black woman activist residing in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Using various narrative analysis techniques, this paper also explores the tales told...

... the African continent, were the original feminists. In her now classic anthology, The Black Woman Cross-Culturally , Steady argued that “true feminism” stemmed from “an actual experience of oppression, a lack of the socially prescribed means of ensuring one’s wellbeing, and a true lack of access to resources...

... to be overlooked or softened. Generally speaking, evidence of Black feminist radicalisms and histories of overt militancy are, if not wholly suppressed, usually stifled by other means. As Joy James argues, for example, “The revolutionary remains on the margin, more so than any other form of (black) feminism...