Introduction to Theme 1I

 “A Black Feminist Reading of the Movement for Black Lives” (click on brown words for links to the PDFs)

1. Go back and (re)read the 1977 Combahee River Collective Statement (click here for it). Spend some time online and on your media networks to see how people contextualized the 40-year anniversary.  Who is remembering?  How and why?
2. Next, listen to Barbara Ransby’s March 20, 2017 talk at the Barnard Center for Research on Women called “A Black Feminist Reading of the Movement for Black Lives: Resistance and the U.S. Left Reimagined" (click here or look to the right).  This speech coincides with the 40-year anniversary of the statement and was the theme of the 2017 National Women’s Studies Association Conference presided by Barbara Ransby.  Notice how she makes the Movement for Black Lives a Black Feminist Tradition AND Agenda!
3. As we travel back with the Combahee River Collective, let’s take it all the way back with Audre Lorde.  Read BOTH “The Uses of Anger” and “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.” (click on essay titles)

“A Black Feminist Reading of the Movement for Black Lives: Resistance and the U.S. Left Reimagined” by Barbara Ransby

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