black feminist reading circle

"I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable."

-Audre Lorde

In this reading circle, we will read and discuss foundational texts of Black feminist thought, but also analyse and critique Black political theoretical frameworks through a Black feminist lens in order to create a frame of reference for Black politics that goes beyond academia and offers alternative strategies for liberation. We want to decolonize and expand our horizons to see how marginalized genders, including Black women, gender nonconforming and non-binary people, are affected by the particular kind of segregation, misogyny, classism, ableism, queerphobia, transphobia and more that they face in the various environments they find themselves in, as well as  interrogate how they organize, resist, theorize, educate, build and lead. The goal is to place Black feminist thought at the center of the universal power struggle for liberation.