Image from A Wrinkle In Time Movie   I spent New Year’s Day re-reading A Wrinkle A Time, a book I first encountered in middle school. I have been invested in re-reading the book both because I’m eagerly anticipating Ava DuVernay’s forthcoming rendition of the movie, with a mixed Black girl as protagonist. But I also wanted to read it because I have been thinking since last year, when I gave a TED Talk on “The Racial Politics of Time,” about Black women’s relationship to time. When I gave this talk for the 2016 TEDWomen Conference, one of the things that I regretted is that I didn’t think ..read more

Summer 17 has been a hotbed of a hot ass mess.  Between the atrocity that is the current presidential administration pushing backward retrograde policies intended to further marginalize and disenfranchise women and communities of color (especially those who are poor, undocumented, and LGBTQ) and the continued looming threat of the domestic terrorism of white supremacy, I have vacillated between feelings of hopelessness and determination. In the face of an unimaginable reality that images and scenes from 2017 mimic images and scenes from the Eyes on the Prize documentary I watched in awe ..read more

I am excited to share my interview with New York Time’s best-selling author Denene Millner. Denene is wife and a mother to 18-year-old and 15-year-old daughters and a 25-year-old stepson. She is the creator of the My Brown Baby Black parenting website and the author of the new children’s book Early Sunday Morning. We talked about race and parenting, the process of growing into womanhood, and her other new book My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children. Check out our chat below. Chanel: As the mom of two little ones, I want to start out with a question ..read more

Hey everybody! We started the Crunk Feminist Collective blog 11 years ago this month! And what a ride it has been. As a Collective, we have lived through the rise and the fall of the feminist blog. But never count a movement’s writers and thinkers out. We’re back and better than ever! I mean we never really left. We’ve been out here working and representing. You get the point. But sometimes you just need to go back to home base. We’ve still got something to say! So…. We are moving to Substack and re-launching the CFC blog as a newsletter called The Remix! Every week,  you’ll receive origi ..read more

Black Women Demand Reparations & the Right to Live Free BIPOC women leaders have for centuries been stitching our community stories into the US tapestry to correct the white-washed narrative and reveal this nation’s bloody history. Black women have labored to produce and reproduce generations of possibility and freedom dreams, while countering the nonsensical myth-making of “truth, justice, and the American way.” Putting our bodies on the line, we consistently expose the exclusionary, delusional, and violent truths that white supremacy is the United States’ true religion, patriarchal state ..read more

Putting On the Mask: A Holy Week Reflection John 18:38 (cf. Isaiah 59: 12-15) It’s Holy Week in Christendom. This is the week we live for, the week we celebrate our foundational myth, about Jesus the Christ, who ended a three year ministry of radical, feather-ruffling, temple-table-turning love, nailed to a cross, being executed by the Roman empire. In our telling, the tomb cannot hold Jesus. Somehow, after a journey into hell, he emerges the victor, unensnared by the tomb, and the death that finds all of us, eventually. He gets up, as many a preacher will proclaim come Sunday, “with all power ..read more

By Cara Page and Eesha Pandit Opportunity for A New Frame This moment asks us to consider how we might pivot and adapt in a way that centers collective care, safety, and protection for each other. This is a good time to re-examine our relationship with vulnerability. Many of us are feeling vulnerable ourselves, while naming communities that require particular care and are more susceptible to COVID-19, including our elders and people living with long term chronic illness. This is an opportunity to deepen our understanding of vulnerability, dis/ability, and chronic illness, at both the individua ..read more

Stacey Abrams at Charis Books, ATL   It is our tradition at the CFC to write love letters to comrades and friends-in-struggle. Stacey Abrams is certainly that. And because she is a Southern Black girl and the CFC began as a Southern (ATL-based) feminist project, we thought it befitting to send some CRUNK love her way.   Dear Stacey, Two years ago I sat in a middle school gym with my son waiting for the launch of your campaign. I told my then ten year old son “this is epic” and of course he wanted to know how long epic was going to take. I explained who you were and why this moment ma ..read more

I’ve been to Wakanda twice now. And with nonstop, direct flights leaving from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport, the next time I go I ain’t coming back. The in-flight meal is jollof rice, greens, jerk chicken, and your grandma’s pound cake. Served with Hennessy Black. You’ve probably read and/or avoided reading 1.5 million think pieces about Black Panther. And, yes, this is another. But, quite frankly, I’m not going down the rabbit hole of whether Killmonger was a revolutionary or a villain (for me, he was both), whether T’Challa is a critique or embracing of liberal Black elitism (it’s com ..read more

Image from A Wrinkle In Time Movie   I spent New Year’s Day re-reading A Wrinkle A Time, a book I first encountered in middle school. I have been invested in re-reading the book both because I’m eagerly anticipating Ava DuVernay’s forthcoming rendition of the movie, with a mixed Black girl as protagonist. But I also wanted to read it because I have been thinking since last year, when I gave a TED Talk on “The Racial Politics of Time,” about Black women’s relationship to time. When I gave this talk for the 2016 TEDWomen Conference, one of the things that I regretted is that I didn’t think ..read more