Intersectional Feminism
This page links to resources that will help you learn more about the work of BIPOC women, and is broken down into the following categories:
Video Clips
Source: The Root. (2018, April 12). Breaking Down Black Feminism. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Sl_Fu47js
Source: TED. (2016, December 7). The urgency of intersectionality | Kimberlé Crenshaw. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akOe5-UsQ2o
Source: MoveOn. (2018, September 18). Black, Queer, Feminist — and Unapologetic. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPn460LMz_g
Source: NMAAHC (2017, August 29).
Source: Time. (2021, March 10). Raquel Willis | TIME's "Voices Of The Future" Women's Summit. YouTube.https://youtu.be/0-5Q8aAXmkI
Source: New York Magazine. (2018, October 23). Tarana Burke Reflects on the #Me Too Movement a Year After Viral Moment. YouTube. https://youtu.be/o-ZP7_MJ67Y
Source: AfroMarxist. (2018, January 8). Angela Davis Criticizes "Mainstream Feminism" / Bourgeois Feminism. YouTube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzQkVfO9ToQ
Source: New York Times. (2020. October 20). Megan Thee Stallion: Why I Speak Up for Black Women | NYT Opinion. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x14j9J6tLvs
Source: TED. (2015, June 22). Roxane Gay: Confessions of a Bad Feminist. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxt_MZKMdes
Source: Jennie--Laure Sully. (2018, January 7).
Source: SlamFind. (2015, September 21). Elizabeth Acevedo - "Afro-Latina". YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPx8cSGW4k8
Source: The New School. (2014, November 7). Public Programs Express: bell hooks and Laverne Cox Discuss Transgender Politics. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xuspy9vYMBA
Books
Social Media
Podcasts
At Liberty
Episode: Activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham on Building a Lasting Movement
Black History Year
Episode: Black Women's Power with Dr. Ashley Farmer
Cite Black Women
Episode: We Must Center Black Trans Women in This Struggle with Imara Jones
Intersectionality Matters
Episode: Storytelling While Black and Female
All My Relations
Episode: All My Relations & Indigenous Feminism
Intersectionality Matters
Episode: Black Girls Speak
Cite Black Women
Episode: A Candid Dialogue About Black Women’s Knowledge Production and The Politics of Citation
Articles
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- (2020) When Black Women Lead, We All Win: 10 Inspiring Leaders Show Us The Way | Forbes
- (2020) Angela Davis Still Believes America Can Change | New York Magazine
- (1981) Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism” | Black Past
- (2020) Ava DuVernay Interviews Angela Davis on This Moment—And What Came Before | Vanity Fair
- (2020) Kimberlé Crenshaw on What Intersectionality Means Today | Time
- (2021) Raquel Willis on the Power of Inclusive Activism. | Time Magazine
- (2020) 16 Black Feminist Archival Projects You Need To Know About | Black Women Radicals
- (2020) Author Brittney Cooper on Harnessing Rage, Right Now | New York Times
- (2020) Black Lives Matter Co-Founder On Her New Book, 'The Purpose of Power' NPR
- (2015) Black, queer, feminist, erased from history: Meet the most important legal scholar you've likely never heard of | Salon
- (2021) Hazel M. Johnson: the ‘mother of environmental justice’ | Grist
- (2017) 14 Black Girls, Women & Non-binary People Every Intersectional Feminist Should Know About | Black Feminist Collective
- (2021) The Only Gaze Is Ours : Tracing the Evolution of Black Women’s Stories | Bitch Magazine
- (2021) Meet 5 Black Women Changing The Narrative Around Body Politics | Nylon
- (2019) Rachel Cargle Insists Rest Is the Real Revolution for Black Women | Harpers Bazaar
- (2019) Tarana Burke Says 'Pain' of Minority Women Never Prioritized | Time
- (2020) 2020 Was a Year to Learn (or Relearn) Important Black Feminist Lessons | Teen Vogue
- (2017) How Black Women Have Impacted Feminism Over Time | Teen Vogue
- (2016) How Being a Black Feminist Has Shaped My Worldview | Teen Vogue
- (2019) 8 Black Feminist Principles That Taught Me About Dismantling The System | Bust
- (2021) Afrominimalism Offers a New Vision for Black People | b*tch media
- (2019) In 'Pleasure Activism,' Adrienne Maree Brown Dares Us to Get In Touch With Our Needs | Colorlines
- (2020) What It Takes to Raise a Black Woman Up | New York Times
- (2020) The Revolutionary Practice of Black Feminisms | Smithsonian Magazine
- (2020) What Does Your Feminism Look Like? | Colorlines
- (2021) What Are Identity Politics? A Vision of Solidarity Rooted in Black Feminism | Teen Vogue
- (2019) Harnessing The Power Of 'The Angry Black Woman' | NPR
- (2020) What Does 'Hood Feminism' Mean For A Pandemic | NPR
- (2020) Black Women Are The Beating Hearts Behind The BREATHE Act | Essence
- (2022) Abortion is also about racial justice, experts and advocates say | NPR
- (2020) How a New Wave of Black Activists Changed the Conversation | NY Mag
- (2021) Please Continue to Say Breonna Taylor’s Name | The Cut
- (2020) The Afterlife of Breonna Taylor | New York Times
- (2020) Black Women Have Consistently Been Trailblazers for Social Change. Why Are They So Often Relegated to the Margins? | Time
- (2018) How the Suffrage Movement Betrayed Black Women | New York Times
- (2020) Say Her Name: How The Fight For Racial Justice Can Be More Inclusive Of Black Women | NPR
- (2019) The Mothers Who Fought To Radically Reimagine Welfare | NPR
- (2015) The Panthers’ Revolutionary Feminism | New York Times
- (2017) Race And Feminism: Women's March Recalls The Touchy History | NPR
- (2020) These Teen Girls Are Fighting for a More Just Future | New York Times
- (2020) Incarcerated women fight for a place in the #MeToo movement | Prism
- (2019) Pressley Tackles 'School-To-Confinement Pathway' With New Bill | Essence
- (2021) “Black Women Best”: The U.S. Economy Benefits When We Center Black Women | Teen Vogue
- (2020) Black Women Scholars on Identity, Research, and Black Women’s Studies | Medium
- (2020) How Black Women Athletes Paved The Way For The NBA Strike | NPR
- (2021) The Economist Placing Value on Black Women’s Overlooked Work | New York Times
- (2019) What's Intersectionality? Let These Scholars Explain the Theory and Its History | Time
- (2019) These Heroes Are Saving Black Feminist Classics by Putting Them on Wheels | Teen Vogue
- (2019) Meet the People Paving New Paths in the Outdoors | Bitch Media
- (2020) Founder Of Site Promoting Work Of Black Women Photographers Wants It To Impact Hiring | NPR
- (2020) How a Brooklyn Sisterhood of Black Women Became National Power Brokers | New York Times
- (2020) Activist Laura Jiménez on Reproductive Violence | Color Lines
- (2018) I'm Celebrating My Disabled Black Girl Magic Because I'm Done Feeling Invisible | Self
- (2020) Black Women's Groups Find Health And Healing On Hikes, But Sometimes Racism, Too | NPR
- (2020) Meet the Black woman advocating for greater disability visibility | NBC News
- (2020) I’m a Queer, Black, Disabled Woman. It’s Not My Job to Educate You | Glamour
- (2018) 14 Black Disabled Women Who Made a Powerful Impact In Life & Self Love | The Body Is Not An Apology
- (2021) Trolls Can’t Stop This Black and Disabled Activist From Taking Over TikTok | Vice News
- (2016) I Am a Black Woman With a Disability. Hear Me Roar. | Time
- (2020) Loving Your Black Disabled Womanhood as Radical Praxis: Keri Gray on Self-Acceptance, Visibility and The Politics of Being Unapologetic | Black Women Radicals
Scholarship
- (2018) Writing Counternarratives: Authorizing the Black Woman's Autobiographical Voice by Reading Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls as Life Narrative | Chereka C. Dickerson
- (2021) Making Black Lives Matter in academia: A Black feminist call for collective action against anti‐blackness in the academy| Myrtle Bell
- (2020) Leveraging technology: how Black girls enact critical digital literacies for social change. | Patricia Garcia
- (2010) Other People's Daughters: Critical Race Feminism and Black Girls' Education. | Venus Evans-Wintera>
- (2014) Theoretical Contributions of Peripheral Feminism and Queer Theory to Intercultural Education | by Ana Salas Rodríguez
- (2019) Theorizing Black women's experiences with institution-sanctioned violence: a #BlackLivesMatter imperative toward Black liberation on campus. | Lori D. Patton
- (2019) Work in the Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework | by Moya Bailey and Izetta Autumn Mobley
- (2018) Black Millennial Women Speaking Truth to Power in and across the Digital Landscape | Erin L, Berry-McCrea
- (2019) Feminist/Womanist/Intersectional Approaches to Interventions with Black Girls and Women. | Wendi Williams
- (2021) I am Not Your Felon : Decoding the Trauma, Resilience, and Recovering Mothering of Formerly Incarcerated Black Women. | Jason M. Williams
- (2020) Slippin' In and Out of Frame: An Afrafuturist Feminist Orientation to Black Women and American Citizenship | by Ashley Hall
- (2019) Toward a Theory of Black Deaf Feminism: The Quiet Invisibility of a Population. | Reshawna L. Chapple
- (2015) Why We Get Off: Moving Towards a Black Feminist Politics of Pleasure | Joan Morgan
- (1996) What's in a Name?: Womanism, Black Feminism, and Beyond | Patricia Hill Collins
- (2015) Black feminist theory and the politics of irreverence: The case of women's rap | Valerie Chepp
- (2020) Critical Race Theory and Black Feminist Insights into "Race" and Gender Equality | by Alexandra Rankin-Wright
- (2019) Dismantling Respectability: The Rise of New Womanist Communication Models in the Era of Black Lives Matter. | Allissa V. Richardson
- (2020) On the Uses of Black Feminism: Notes on Black Feminism as Sexuality Study | by Shoniqua Roach
- (2019) Re-Imagining Masculinities: How Black Queer Feminism Can Liberate Black People from the Toxicity of Patriarchal Masculinity | Ja'nina J. Garrett-Walker
- (2015) She Had a Name That God Didn’t Give Her: Thinking the Body through Atheistic Black Radical Feminism by Marquis Bey
- (2013) Telling the Story Straight: Black Feminist Intellectual Thought in Anthropology by Lynn Bolles
- (2014) Ula Y. Taylor's "Making Waves: The Theory and Practice of Black Feminism": A Contemporary Observation | Treva Lindsey
- (2012) I AM an Angry Black Woman: Black Feminist Autoethnography, Voice, and Resistance. | Rachel Alicia Griffin
- (2016) Naming and Reclaiming | by Bryana French
- (2015) Intersectionality's Definitional Dilemmas | Patricia Hill Collins
- (2019) Reconceptualizing Identity in Intersectionality: Using Identity to Dismantle Institutionalized Oppression in the Communication Discipline | by Kesha James
- (2019) #BlackLivesMatter: Innovative Black Resistance. | Jozi Nummi
- (2020) Creating a space to #SayHerName: Rhetorical stratification in the networked sphere. | Jennifer L. Borda
- (2015) On Black Feminist Thought: thinking oppression and resistance through intersectional paradigm | Minoo Alinia
- (2016) (Re)Imagining Intersectional Democracy from Black Feminism to Hashtag Activism | by Sarah J. Jackson
- (2000) Resting in Gardens, Battling in Deserts: Black Women's Activism | by Joy James
- (2021) Speaking to Stop the Silence: A Womanist Ethical Confrontation of Injustice. | Anne Marie Mingo
- (2019) (Trans)forming #MeToo: Toward a Networked Response to Gender Violence | by Jo V. Hsu
- (2020) Trauma at home: A queer Black feminist's experience in the afterlife of state‐sanctioned violence in Ferguson. | Chelsey R. Carter
