Black Feminist Quotes
Who famously said this quote: " When I liberate others I liberate myself"
Fannie Lou Hamer
A key term coined in 1989 to describe the way a person can experience multiple layers of oppression based on their identity.
Intersectionality
This figure was instrumental in creating the yearly celebration of members connected to the LGBTQIA+ community.
Marsha P. Johnson
This DJ artist creatively used song lyrics to highlight the first of the month rent payment.
Big Freedia
This famous poet quoted this phrase: " If you want better study, struggle and survive."
Sonia Sanchez
This term is used as a legal framework to understand the challenges of feminism, race and the law.
Critical Race Feminism
In the 1970s majority of Black women were members of this group.
Black Panther Party
This genre of music is famously known to be created by Black women and members of the queer community.
House music
" Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power-not because they don't see it, but because they see it and want it to exist."
Bell Hooks
In 1983, this author helped coin this social theory term from her book, In Search of My Mother's Garden
Womanism
This lesbian feminist, survivor-healer helped to create the film NO! In 2006, to explore the challenges of sexual violence.
Aishah Shahidah Simmons
This author from the South Bronx helped coin the term "hip hop feminist"
Joan Morgan
I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it
Toni Cade Bambara
This artist famously shared these hit lyrics from the 90s: "But don't you be calling out my name, I bring wrath to those who disrespect me like a dame."
Queen Latifah