By Cleopatra Athena • Food justice, Black ecology, and environmental justice are deeply interconnected frameworks that challenge systems of oppression and envision pathways toward collective liberation. Food justice centers the right to accessible, nutritious, and culturally relevant food while exposing how systemic racism has shaped food systems that disproportionately harm Black and marginalized communities. Read More The post Food Justice and Farming as a Liberatory Practice: An Interview with Susuyu Lassa of Soul Fire Farm appeared first on Black Feminist Collective ..read more

By Gabrielle Miller • The issue that is the subject of my thoughts herein was bellowed into the American conscience the moment Sojourner Truth uttered the most famous inquiry of 1851 – “Ain’t I a woman?” This question did not represent a new sentiment. It represented the painfully overdue expression of a long-held feeling carried within Black women while traversing the American landscape. Read more The post Don’t Touch My Hair or… My Feminism: Autonomous Afrofeminism as a Framework for Social Justice Work appeared first on Black Feminist Collective ..read more

“Pet Peeves” — Poem by Sincerely Denyze • This poem addresses how marginalised groups are dehumanised and yet actual animals are often treated with much more kindness and respect. It’s is a call to value empathy in the midst of the countless genocides against marginalised groups. This is connected to Black liberation as it highlights the ways in which we are treated. Read more The post Pet Peeves appeared first on Black Feminist Collective ..read more

By Stephanie Younger • Since she was five years old, Liza Mickens has been sharing the story of her great-great-grandmother, Maggie Lena Walker, about her ardent dedication to gender and racial justice as it pertains to the conditions of women and Black people in Richmond, Virginia. Read More The post Continuing Maggie Walker’s Legacy: An Interview with Liza Mickens appeared first on Black Feminist Collective ..read more

By Teresa Younger • It is a near-universal experience, that moment when Black girls realize what they are to the world; the world can seem hostile and confusing. As a new era of Black girls comes of age, introspection, and contextuality in life’s journey can be a lifesaving tool. Kemeshia Randle Swanson dedicates her book, “Maverick Feminist: To Be Female and Black in Country Founded upon Violence and Respectability” to “every girl or woman who has ever been told what they shouldn’t say or do for fear of what someone else might say or do…” Read More The post An Interview with Kemeshia Randle S ..read more

“A Love Letter to Authenticity - I” — Poem by T. Athena Marshall • This is the beginning of exploration into my identity as a Black femme and what that means from beginning to end. It’s an exploration at its raw core of how Black women and femmes will fall into the stereotype trap of being strong and a superwoman to a detriment to self to please others. Read more The post A Love Letter to Authenticity – I appeared first on Black Feminist Collective ..read more

“Little Black Girl” — Poem by Abria ScottRead more The post Little Black Girl appeared first on Black Feminist Collective ..read more

By Hannah Hall • In this illustration essay, multi-faceted writer and illustrator Hannah Hall reflects on four of her illustrations, We are not animals, The Moors, The Capitalist Theory, and Afrocentric Love. View The post The Trials and Tribulations of Creating a Black Princess appeared first on Black Feminist Collective ..read more

By Teresa Younger • It is a near-universal experience, that moment when Black girls realize what they are to the world; the world can seem hostile and confusing. As a new era of Black girls comes of age, introspection, and contextuality in life’s journey can be a lifesaving tool. Kemeshia Randle Swanson dedicates her book, “Maverick Feminist: To Be Female and Black in Country Founded upon Violence and Respectability” to “every girl or woman who has ever been told what they shouldn’t say or do for fear of what someone else might say or do…” Read More The post An Interview with Kemeshia Randle S ..read more

“partus sequitur ventrem” — Poem by Lee Gordon • Content warning: sexual assault imagery Read more The post partus sequitur ventrem appeared first on Black Feminist Collective ..read more