Now It’s My Time! Black Girls Finding Space and Place in Comic Books by Grace D. Gipson

“…Guided by an Afrofuturist, Black feminist, and intersectional framework, I discuss the progressive possibilities of popular media culture in depicting Black girlhood and adolescence. …”
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Black women diversity leaders' perceptions of organizational inclusivity in college sports by Ajhanai Channel Inez Keaton

“…More specifically, organizational inclusivity is creating contexts that do not mirror Black women's experiences as outsiders within mostly White athletic departments, lived experiences entangled in systems of oppression, specifically sexism and racism (read: intersectionality), and experiences that cultivate Black feminist thought in Black women, as this consciousness is only developed through adverse realities of exclusion. …”
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Qualitative Research with Pakistani Communities: The Implications and Emotional Impact of a Shifting Insider–Outsider Position by Nadia Bashir

“…Starting from a Black feminist standpoint, this reflexive article uniquely draws on empirical data and recollections from two research studies to consider experiences of researching Pakistani communities from the assumed position of an insider. …”
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Traveling Ever Toward Freedom: A Metaphorical Feminist Study of Colson Whitehead’s the Underground Railroad by Motlagh Afsaneh Askar

“…Patricia Collins tries to convey through her work, Black Feminist Thought (2000), which will be used here, that all these oppressions exist even today. …”
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“Esther Weren’t No Harlot”: Rape and Marriage in <i>Go Tell It on the Mountain</i> by Porter Nenon

“…To consider how James Baldwin resisted racialized notions of sexuality in his first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, I employ a number of black feminist critics—including Saidiya Hartman, Patricia Williams, Hortense Spillers, and Patricia Hill Collins—to analyze three under-studied minor characters: Deborah, Esther, and Richard. …”
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بررسی بحران هویّت در رمان دلبند اثر تونی موریسون by محمد رضا نوراللهی, شیده احمدزاده

“…The present article is the result of an investigation into the crux of identity in Tony Morrison’s Beloved, and its objective is not only to study the nature of the crux, but also to consider the strategies hitherto theorized by Black feminist intellectuals in order to overcome the problem. …”
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“The Beloved Purple of Their Eyes: Inheriting Bessie Smith’s Politics of Sexuality” by Marta Miquel-Baldellou

“…The aim of this article is to identify Bessie Smith’s politics of sexuality in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching, Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple and Toni Morrison’s Beloved, in accordance with the new perspectives of Black Feminist Studies today …”
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Black African woman: autobiographical narrative of a Nigerian woman's experiences and her relationship with black feminism by Temitope Jane Aransiola

“…This kind of knowledge production has been valued within the black feminist. I use authors such as Djamila Ribeiro (2018), Patricia Hill Collins (2016), Bell Hooks (2015), Sueli Carneiro (2003), Chimamanda Adichie (2009; 2015), who discuss the identity and condition of black women, the different categories of contrast, the importance of women's network that think about the condition of women in reconfiguring the space they occupy in helping to think about feminism, as well as making it possible to think about gender, race and class as intersectional axes. …”
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Mathematics Literacy, Identity Resilience, and Opportunity Sixty Years Since Brown v. Board by Jacqueline Leonard, Erica N. Walker, Victoria R. Bloom, Nicole M. Joseph

“…In this chapter, the authors use Black Feminist Thought (BFT) to examine the mathematics education and the educational attainment of African American females in a matrilineal line that spans five generations. …”
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Navigating Triple Consciousness in the Diaspora: An Autoethnographic Account of an Ahmadi Muslim Woman in Canada by Ayesha Mian Akram

“…This “triple consciousness”, a term coined by Black feminist scholars and Afro-Latinx scholars in the United States to extend W. …”
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Love as Method: Tracing the Contours of Love in Black and African Feminist Imaginations of Liberation by Peace Kiguwa

“…To do this, select readings of African and Black feminist theorising, reflections, and activist works are explored including Pumla Gqola, Sharlene Khan, June Jordan, bell hooks amongst others. …”
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Theorizing Conscious Black Asexuality through Claire Kann’s <i>Let’s Talk about Love</i> by Brittney Miles

“…Through the story of the Black, bi-romantic, asexual, 19 year-old college student Alice Johnston, this text illuminates the diversity of Black sexuality in the Black Diaspora. Using a Black feminist sociological literary analysis to complete a close reading of the novel, I interrogate what <i>Let&#8217;s Talk about Love</i> offers for defining a Black asexual politic. …”
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Black Public Art: On the Socially Engaged Work of Black Women Artist-Activists by Pena Mary

“…Engaging visual mediums, artist-activists rendered a black feminist politics through cultural and aesthetic productions. …”
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“Have You Ever Seen the Crowd Goin’ Apeshit?”: Disrupting Representations of Animalistic Black Femininity in the French Imaginary by Elodie Silberstein

“…Here, I argue that Beyonc&#233; transcends the tension between nature and culture into a syncretic language to subvert a dominant imperialistic gaze. Drawing on black feminist theories and art history, a formal analysis traces the genealogy and stylistic expression of this vocabulary to understand its political implications. …”
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Their American Dream by Danné E. Davis

“…DuBois named the colorline—i.e., racism—as the problem of the 20th century, skin color stratification was a persistent phenomenon. In 1983 Black feminist, scholar, and Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker termed “colorism” as “prejudicial or preferential treatment of same-race people based solely on their [skin] color”. …”
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The Between Story: Physical and Psychic Trauma in the Poetry of Sonia Sanchez and Lucille Clifton by Chanae D. Bazemore

“…In particular, the silenced voices of subjects continually subsumed beneath the phallocentric undertones challenged by Black feminist discourse, art, and poetry will be addressed.…”
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The Aesthetics of Healing in the Sacredness of the African American Female’s Bible: Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain by Cucarella-Ramon, Vicent

“…Rejecting the role of religion as a reductive mode of social protest, the novel extends its jeremiadic ethos and evolves into a black feminist manifesto in which a world without women equates disruption and instability. …”
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Paul, Timothy, and the Respectability Politics of Race: A Womanist Inter(con)textual Reading of Acts 16:1–5 by Mitzi J. Smith

“…In conversation with critical race theorists Naomi Zack, Barbara and Karen Fields, and black feminist E. Frances White, I discuss the intersection of race/racism, gender, geopolitical Diasporic space, and the burden and failure of respectability politics. …”
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“Should I Stay, or Should I Go?”: The Experiences of, and Choices Available to Women of South Asian Heritage Living in the UK When Leaving a Relationship of Choice Following Intima... by Kalwinder K. Sandhu, Hazel R. Barrett

“…A qualitative research approach using Black Feminist Standpoint Epistemology employed thematic analysis to give voice to South Asian women’s experiences and insights into their experiences of, and responses to, leaving abusive relationships. …”
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The white racial frame of public health discourses about racialized health differences and “disparities”: what it reveals about power and how it thwarts health equity by Lisa Bowleg, Lisa Bowleg

“…Informed by insights from critical race theories about the white racial frame, white epistemological ignorance, and colorblind racism; critical perspectives on social class; Black feminist perspectives; framing; and critical discourse analysis, in this perspective I discuss: (1) the power of language and discourses; (2) the white racial frame of three common public health discourses — health disparities, “race,” and social determinants of health (SDOH); (3) the costs and consequences of the white racial frame for advancing health equity; and (4) the need for more counter and critical theoretical frames to inform discourses, and in turn research and political advocacy to advance health equity in the U.S.…”
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