“Nourishing Freedoms”
We invite all to join us at the table, eat with us, sit with us, learn with us, grow with us…be with us as we co-create, and nourish our Black Feminist Futures.
Beyond the boundary of nations. An interview with Gay J McDougall.
In the lead up to the first Black Feminisms Forum, This is Africa will be publishing a series of interviews, features and articles about Black Feminisms. First up, Maggie Mapondera sits down with renowned activist, scholar and thinker Gay J McDougall, a member of the BFF’s Working Group, to talk about the struggles faced by women of African descent the world over.
BLACK CANVAS REVERBERATIONS OF FREEDOM
Our freedom dreams are a roaring Black; swellings of coming insurrection manifested. This roar is felt in the tip of a brush about to paint the sounds of our resistance; in the cadence of saxophones, playing the drawings that our grandmothers sketched, of struggles unrelenting; in the poems inscribed by the movement of our bodies when that bass drops.
How to spend EUR 500 million: women's rights groups on European UN grant
We welcome this week’s announcement of a EUR 500 million commitment for work to end violence against women and girls. But there are important caveats.
Black Colombian activists continue our struggle for rights
While Colombia’s peace talks continue in Havana, Cuba, back home in the region of North Cauca, Black Colombians have found their cries for access to their ancestral lands met with tear-gas and rubber bullets.
Let’s not just open the door, let’s open the dialogue
The recent Zika outbreak in Latin America and the Caribbean has highlighted some areas where different sectors of the global feminist movement need to deepen reflection and dialogue about how to develop tactics and strategies for moving our collective rights and justice agendas forward.
Standing on African feminist land
Personal Reflections on the 4th African Feminist Forum.
Black women reclaim the conversation on racism worldwide
The Movement for Black Lives, or as it’s more commonly known, #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) in the United States, has grown beyond a call to action in response to police brutality and the extrajudicial killings of Black people—Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and too many others—to a movement that challenges multiple layers of racial inequality.
Nou Led Nou La: Why a Black Feminisms Forum?
Nou Led Nou La. I see you.
That is the basis for the historic gathering of over one hundred Black feminists from around the world happening in Bahia, Brazil in September 2016. I see you.
The Virtual Lifeline
How the internet has changed the lives of disabled people and other marginalized groups.