Black History Month: A feminist Reading list
Essential reading for ALL women.
Combahee River Collective. Pioneers of Intersectionality. Read their statement here: https://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Keyword%20Coalition_Readings.pdf
Lorde, Audre. The Master’s Tools will never Dismantle the Master’s house (1979) Read here: https://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Keyword%20Coalition_Readings.pdf
Lorde, Audre. Women Responding to Racism. Read here: https://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Lorde%20-%20The%20Uses%20of%20Anger.pdf
Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider (1984) A collection of essays including the ones above. Read here: https://rhinehartibenglish.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/1/0/22108252/sister_outsider_audrey_lorde_ib_pdf_packet.pdf
Spillers, Hortense J. Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammarbook (1987) Read here: https://www.mcgill.ca/english/files/english/spillers_mamas_baby.pdf
hooks, bell. Understanding Patriarchy. 2004 Read here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bell-hooks-understanding-patriarchy
hooks, bell. Love as the Practice of Freedom (1994) Read here: https://wp.stolaf.edu/art343/files/2022/11/BellHooks.pdf
Vaginal Davis being an icon for 8mins and 18secs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A03i57f53E4
Davis, Angela Y. Women, Race and Class. Vintage Books. 1987. Read here: https://legalform.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/davis-women-race-class.pdf
Davis, Angela Y. Are Prisons Obsolete. Seven Stories Press (2003). Read here: https://decolonisesociology.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/angela-davis-are_prisons_obsolete.pdf
Bey, Marqui. Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism. AK Press 2020. Read here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/marquis-bey-anarcho-blackness
Huxtable, Juliana. Mucus in my Pineal Gland. https://www.scribd.com/document/703144940/Juliana-Huxtable-Mucus-in-my-Pineal-Gland
Crenshaw, Kimberly (intersectionality queen). Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color. 1991. Read here: https://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/210/2019/02/Crenshaw_mapping-the-margins1991.pdf
Morrison, Toni. The Best Eye. 1970. Read here: https://www.blacktribe.org/uploads/1/8/6/5/18653164/toni_morrison_-_the_bluest_eye__.pdf
Mwasi Collectif AfroFéministe. La colère. (2024) Read here: https://www.mwasicollectif.org/en/blog/la-colere
Thiam, Awa. Black Sisters, “Feminism and Revolution” in Speak out! Feminism and Oppression in Black Africa (1986). Read here: https://www.douglasficek.com/teaching/afn-152/thiam.pdf
Oyewumi, Oyeronke. The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of European Gender Discourses. University of Minnesota Press (1997) Read here: https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2023-11-25_6562750d9655d_TheInventionofWomenMakinganAfricanSenseofWesternGenderDiscoursesbyOyeronkeOyewumiz-lib.org_.pdf
Magloire, Daniele. “L’antiféminisme en Haïti” dans Déjouer le Silence: Contre-discours sur les femmes haïtiennes. Les édition Remue-Ménage. (2018) Read here: https://mouka.ht/sites/mouka.ht/files/pdf/Magloire%20-%202018%20-%20L%27antiféminisme%20en%20Haïti.pdf
L’amour, Sabine, Haïti : comment les femmes secouent le monde politique (2020) https://media.mouka.ht/sites/mouka.ht/files/pdf/Lamour%20-%202020%20-%20Haïti%20%20Comment%20les%20femmes%20secouent%20le%20monde%20polit.pdf
Dubuisson, Darlène and Mark Schuller. Beyond poto mitan: Challenging the “Strong Black Woman” archetype and allowing space for tenderness. Feminist Anthropology 2022; 3: 60–74. Read here: https://www.anthropolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Dubuisson-and-Schuller-Beyond-Poto-Mitan-1.pdf
