An Ode to Black British Girls by Jeanelle Kevina Hope

“… This article delves into Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum, examining how the cultural text builds upon Black feminist media discourse, and intimately grapples with the nuances of Black women’s sexuality while explicitly challenging misogynoir. …”
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African Diasporic Connections in the Americas: Toni Morrison in Brazil by Stelamaris Coser

“…This essay relies on Black feminist, diasporic and decolonial thinking to investigate how Morrison’s writing connects with the ongoing process of racial awareness and empowerment in Brazil, as well as with the writer Conceição Evaristo.…”
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#SAYHERNAME: Towards a Gender Inclusive Movement for Black Lives by Brittney Cooper

“…A well-known activist and black feminist theorist, Cooper places the #SayHerName campaign within the contexts of feminist and queer theory genealogies, as well black activism. …”
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Review of "The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment" by Cameron Awkward-Rich (Duke University Press) by Claudia Schippert

“…Simultaneously a project of metacritical reflections about disciplinary foundations at the intersections of the academic fields of transgender studies, disability studies, and Black feminist studies, and a series of close readings of cultural texts and artifacts central to those disciplinary developments, Awkward-Rich’s book is intellectually generous, beautifully written, and deftly argued. …”
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A Womanist’s Poetic, Theo-Ethical Response to Sexual Trauma: Ethics, Theology & Black Women’s Poetry by Kimi Bryson

“…I put in conversation black feminist writings, womanist ethics and theology, and black women’s poetry to gesture towards a womanist response to sexual trauma. …”
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Applying Intersectionality in Policy and Practice: Unseating the Dominance of Gender in Responding to Social Inequalities by Ashlee Christoffersen

“… Researchers, policymakers and practitioners have long struggled with how to apply the Black feminist theory of intersectionality. While the term intersectionality is commonly appropriated by white feminism, the first, and most difficult, step to operationalising intersectionality is to unseat the dominance of a unitary gender lens – or any other hierarchy – for understanding social inequalities. …”
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I'd rather be a cyborg than a celebrity: Black feminism in the digital music industry by Parise Carmichael-Murphy

“…This essay argues that Black feminist artists in the digital music industry embrace cyborg politics to disrupt celebrity conventions in ways that draw attention to the complexity of identity and oppression. …”
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Black in Time: How #BlackLivesMatter Reorients the Human by Louis M Maraj

“…It analyzes the modalities through which these activists frame resistance, paying particular attention to the movement’s attempts to, in the words of co-founder Alicia Garza, “(re)build the Black liberation movement” (2014) through Black feminist epistemologies. By looking at how the movement pushes against antiBlackness intersectionally through in-person and digital and protests and in popular culture, we might come to understand why it has garnered global significance in reshaping past conceptions of what it means to be “human.”…”
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“The Shade of It All”: How Black Women Use Instagram and YouTube to Contest Colorism in the Beauty Industry by Kiara M. Childs

“…I argue that Instagram and YouTube afford Black women the ability to contest antiblackness and colorism in the beauty industry and practice traditional Black feminist traditions such as self-definition and self-empowerment. …”
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Blackness at the End of the World by Antavius Franklin

“…Ultimately, this paper wants to think with black feminist futurity and Afrofuturist discourse as generative tools to imagine black life beyond the confines of antiblackness, if at all possible. …”
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Seeking Emancipation from Gender Regulation: Reflections on Home space for a Black Woman Academic/ Single Mother by Lisa William-­White

“…Using the work of Judith Butler on gender regulation, Black Feminist Thought (BFT), and autobiographic storytelling, this piece illustrates how essentialist notions of gender, and discourses related to gender create conflict in shaping identity construction for a Black woman academic and single mother (BWA/SM) in the United States. …”
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This Shoal Which Is Not One: Island Studies, Performance Studies, and Africans Who Fly by Rebecca Schneider

“…Following Tiffany Lethabo King and other scholars of Black feminist thought, the essay explores not only the littoral fact of shoals in seafaring but also the concept of shoaling for troubling historical narratives oriented to settler colonial plot points. …”
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Race, Class, Gender and Countryside. Feminist Epistemologies of the Margin by Monika Borys

“…To this purpose<br />I recall theories from black feminist thought and postcolonial studies which help<br />to enrich subaltern epistemologies. …”
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The Pedagogy of Renewal: Black Women, Reclaiming Joy, and Self-Care as Praxis by Ashley R. Hall, Tiffany J. Bell

“…In this essay, we incorporate the concepts of culturally relevant pedagogy (Bell & Jackson, 2021) and critical autoethnography (Boylorn, 2020; Boylorn & Orbe, 2021) to amplify a Black feminist ethos of self-care as an embodied praxis. …”
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Seeking Emancipation from Gender Regulation: Reflections on Home space for a Black Woman Academic/ Single Mother by Lisa William-White

“…Using the work of Judith Butler on gender regulation, Black Feminist Thought (BFT), and autobiographic storytelling, this piece illustrates how essentialist notions of gender, and discourses related to gender create conflict in shaping identity construction for a Black woman academic and single mother (BWA/SM) in the United States. …”
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Aesthetics of resistance: reimagining critical philosophy with María del Rosario Acosta López’s grammars of listening by José Medina

“…In the first place, staging a dialogue between Acosta López and Black feminist philosophy, the article offers a defence of reconceptualizing philosophy in the 21st Century through a dialogue with the voices and perspectives of the excluded and silenced—a reconceptualization that reimagines the critical role of philosophy. …”
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Introduction: Thinking of a Black Digital Ethos by Meredith D. Clark, Adam J. Banks

“…Using critical approaches including Black Feminist Thought (as articulated by Patricia Hill Collins, Sylvia Wynter, bell hooks, and Kimberlé Crenshaw among others), Black Cyberfeminism (Kishonna Gray, Catherine Knight Steele, and Tressie McMillan Cottom), and Andre Brock’s Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis, we investigate how race, gender, and digital media technologies have informed and influenced Black digital culture.…”
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Blackness at the End of the World by Antavius Franklin

“…Ultimately, this paper wants to think with black feminist futurity and Afrofuturist discourse as generative tools to imagine black life beyond the confines of antiblackness, if at all possible. …”
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Lives lived differently: Geography and the study of black women by Daley, P

“…While feminist geographers have drawn on black feminist thought, the limited presence of black women academics within the discipline of Geography contributed to a lack of sensitivity to the distinctiveness of black women’s geographies. …”

Aunties, Aunts, and : The Forgotten Othermother Supporting and Housing LGBTQ Youth by Brandon Andrew Robinson, Amy L. Stone, Javania Michelle Webb

“…This focus can also overlook Black feminist interventions to understanding the roles of othermothers and can miss how nonparental relatives such as aunts may provide support, housing stability, and safety for youth. …”
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