![]() Her first book, Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women’s Literature, was published in 2014.Ĭhanel Craft Tanner, PhD, is director of the Center for Women at Emory and founding member of the Crunk Feminist Collective. She is co-founder and contributing writer for the popular feminist blog, The Crunk Feminist Collection. Susana Morris is an associate professor of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Tech. Her areas of research and work include black women organizations, black women intellectuals, and Hip Hop Feminism in 20, she was named to the “Root 100,” an annual list of top Black influencers. What do you do when you feel like your natural hair is ugly, or when classmates keep touching it? How do you handle your self-confidence if your family or culture prizes fair-skinned womxn over darker-skinned ones? How do you balance your identities if you’re an immigrant or the child of immigrants? How do you dress and present yourself in ways that feel good when society condemns anything outside of the norm? Covering colorism and politics, romance and pleasure, code switching, and sexual violence, Feminist AF is the empowering guide to living your feminism out loud.īrittney Cooper is an American author, professor, activist, and cultural critic. Loud and rowdy girls, quiet and nerdy girls, girls who rock naturals, girls who wear weave, outspoken and opinionated girls, girls still finding their voice, queer girls, trans girls, and gender nonbinary young people who want to make the world better: Feminist AF uses the insights of feminism to address issues relevant to today’s young womxn. ![]() ![]() Hip-hop and feminism combine in this empowering guide with attitude, from best-selling author Brittney Cooper and founding members of the Crunk Feminist Collective. To view, please click the "Watch Here" button at the time of the event, or subscribe to our e-newsletter to receive a ten-minute reminder. This chapter situates intersectionality within a long history of black feminist theorizing about interlocking systems. This event will be broadcast live and does not require registration to attend. Coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, the term intersectionality has become the key analytic framework through which feminist scholars in various fields talk about the structural identities of race, class, gender, and sexuality. This book argues that ultimately feminism, friendship, and faith in one's own superpowers are all we really need to turn things right side up again.Featuring Brittney Cooper, Susana Morris, and Chanel Craft Tanner In Brittney Cooper's world, neither mean girls nor fuckboys ever win. And it took another intervention, this time staged by one of her homegirls, to turn Brittney into the fierce feminist she is today. This book argues that ultimately feminism, friendship, and faith in ones own superpowers are all we really need to turn things right side up again. When Cooper learned of her grandmother's eloquent rage about love, sex, and marriage in an epic and hilarious front-porch confrontation, her life was changed. In Brittney Coopers world, neither mean girls nor fuckboys ever win. It reminds women that they don't have to settle for less. Eloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. ![]() It's what makes Beyonce's girl power anthems resonate so hard. Cooper is author of two forthcoming books, Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (University of Illinois Press 2017) and Never Scared. Black women's eloquent rage is what makes Serena Williams such a powerful tennis player. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting.įar too often, Black women's anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. So what if it's true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be.
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