Black Feminism


Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Women, Race & Class
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
All About Love: New Visions
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
Bad Feminist
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Assata: An Autobiography
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
The Vagina Monologues by V (formerly Eve Ensler)Feminism Is for Everybody by bell hooksAsking for It by Kate HardingMy Life and Times by Emerson LittlefieldHe's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Ever... by Jessica Valenti
Third-Wave Feminism
171 books — 71 voters

Feminism Is for Everybody by bell hooksWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAin't I a Woman by bell hooksFeminist Theory by bell hooksHood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
Black Feminism Starter Pack
8 books — 2 voters
How We Get Free by Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorWords of Fire by Beverly Guy-SheftallHome Girls by Barbara     SmithBlack-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds by Mary Helen WashingtonSister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Black Feminist Foundations
15 books — 1 voter

Feminism Is for Everybody by bell hooksFeminist Theory by bell hooksAin't I a Woman by bell hooksAll About Love by bell hooksTeaching to Transgress by bell hooks
bell hooks bibliography
43 books — 2 voters
Freeman's Challenge by Robin BernsteinAbolition for the People by Colin KaepernickIn the Wake by Christina SharpeBlack, White, and in Color by Hortense SpillersAt the Dark End of the Street by Danielle L. McGuire
Black Studies
102 books — 10 voters

Malebo Sephodi
I am flawed and not perfect and get the theory incorrect because I am still unlearning internalised oppression. I still struggle with deep-seated beliefs about gender norms and have to constantly check myself. I don’t get it right all the time but I am walking in the right direction. I used to be hard on myself because I desperately wanted my feminism to be accepted by other feminists. This is when I learned the importance of the different threads that run through different strands of feminism. ...more
Malebo Sephodi, Miss Behave

Angela Y. Davis
As many times as I’ve spoken during Black History Month, I never tire of urging people to remember that it wasn’t a single individual or two who created that movement, that, as a matter of fact, it was largely women within collective contexts, Black women, poor Black women who were maids, washerwomen, and cooks. These were the people who collectively refused to ride the bus.
Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

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