![]() The Black Women’s StandpointĬollins writes that Black women engage in activism as a response to how the intersecting oppressions of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation shape their lives. Black feminist thought according to the second chapter of Collin’s Black Feminist Thought. In this blog, I describe the six features of U.S. Everyday Black women contribute to Black feminist thought.įor example, Cashawn Thompson, an early childhood development expert living in D.C., coined #BlackGirlMagic as a lens for Black women and girls to self-define and innovate positive representations of their identities as a counternarrative to the negative controlling images of Black women and girls that perpetuated by the social institutions of mainstream society. ![]() Furthermore, not only Black women intellectuals engage in Black feminist thought. However, Patricia Hill Collins writes in the landmark text on the subject that the work of Black women intellectuals constitutes just one feature of Black feminist thought in the United States. ![]() ![]() For my conceptual framework, I used intersectionality as theorized by Kimberlé Crenshaw in her 1991 article “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color.” For example, I analyzed the intersectional social media activism of #SayHerName proponents on Twitter. My research looks at the Black feminist practices of contemporary social movements. ![]() Black feminism encompasses both Black feminist thought and practice. ![]()
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