What is Black Feminist Theory?

Black feminist theory challenges assumptions and norms at the intersection of sexism and racism, says Sherie Randolph, associate professor in the School of History and Sociology and co-founder of the Black Feminist Think Tank. Black women created it and practice it as a means to free not only Black people but everyone, she adds.

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So, Black feminist theory historically, I'm a historian, normally what we would say is at least have raised a challenging of race — racism and sexism.

And it's by Black women. Black women created Black feminist theory. They continue to trouble its definition and use it as a theory and also a practice to free Black people, free Black women, but also to free everyone.

What Black feminists have been really good about pointing out are how oppressions of racism, sexism, classism, etc., when they meet, and when they're experienced by Black people, how that oppression then changes and becomes something else that causes suffering for not just them but for everyone.

And right now, this current moment, Black Lives Matter is being run, and that hashtag comes from, Black feminists. Most of those organizations have a Black feminist platform.

And so it's challenging us to think of police violence also as a Black feminist issue. Because it affects Black people writ large. It's challenging us to look at also #SayHerName, of Black women who are also subject to — subjected to — police violence, but also subjected to what we call domestic violence or any type of violence that it's intersectional, like, you can't do, end one without ending the other.

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This is very informative for me! I'm not black but very open to learning more! Thank you for providing this recourse

[sidneyblack]

“Black Feminism is the practice of freeing everyone”…. 🤦🏽‍♂️ that makes absolutely no sense

[dularula]

My sister Shafiqah Hudson passed away she started #yourslipisshowing