Black Lives Matter, Black Feminist Politics, and Some Uncomfortable Truths in Abolition Struggles: A Graduate Student Workshop
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From Anti-Slavery and Anti-Lynching, to Black Lives Matter, Black women’s participation in coalition and cross-sectional organizing in abolition struggles have offered some of the most compelling and effective models for political transformation in the US. However, the social positionality of women of African descent in patriarchy, racial hierarchy, and economic and class inequalities within coalitions, have exemplified unique precarities. While coalition work for Black women has demonstrated their political potential and effectiveness in social justice and transformation struggles, it has also laid bare often unaddressed internal and intra-group conflicts related to Black women’s unique vulnerabilities within such alliances; Locations where political blind-spots and political growth present ongoing challenges.
This talk examines the pitfalls, perils and ‘tense and tender ties’ confronting Black Feminist praxis in coalitions of abolition politics.
