Foundational Black feminists
She wrote Feminism Is for Everybody and defined feminism as “a movement to end sexist oppression.”
Who is bell hooks?
This South African woman was put on display throughout Europe due to her body
Who is Sara Baartman?
The movement#BlackLivesMatter was founded by these three Black queer women.
Who is Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, or Opal Tometi?
The Afropunk essay “ain’t i a woman?” pushes back against the exclusion of whom from feminist spaces?
Who are Black trans women?
this concept refers to the interlockng systems of oppression coined by legal scholar Kimberly Crenshaw
What is intersectionality?
This Black queer man wrote several books and essays such as "Letter to my Nephew", If Beale Street Could Talk, and Notes of a Native Son
Who is James Baldwin?
The names of the 3 women considered to be the "mothers" of modern gynocology
Who are Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey?
Sherri Williams argues #SayHerName responds to the invisibility of violence against whom?
Who are Black women, including Black trans women?
This trans elder recently passed in November of 2025 and was a key activist present during the Stonewall Riots
Who is Miss Major?
a social system that subordinates, discriminates, or is oppressive to women and other marginalized genders, while also upholding and creating systems of power and privilege for cis-men.
What is Patriarchy?
This author created the concept "Matrix of domination"
Who is Patricia Hill Collins?
According to Bailey & Mobley, disability justice must center the experiences of which community?
Who are Black disabled people?
In her work, Joan Morgan helped develop this form of feminism.
What is hip hop feminism?
Cathy J. Cohen argues that queer politics must include which people who are usually left out?
Who are punks, welfare queens, and bulldaggers?
Mammy, Jezebel, and Sapphire
This 1977 statement emphasized that oppressions must be fought together.
Who is the Combahee River Collective?
The Tuskegee experiment denied Black men this basic medical intervention.
Robin Boylorn’s “Mama’s Feminism” centers the everyday wisdom of whom?
Who are Black women and Black mothers?
bell hooks argues patriarchy harms boys by discouraging what emotion?
What is vulnerability?
This concept refers to the network of systems that uphold the system of mass incarceration.
What is the prison-industrial complex?
This writer said “the erotic is a source of power.”
Who is Audre Lorde?
Ta’Les Love describes “skin tone work” as labor tied to which online industry/economy?
What is the beauty influencer economy?
This album by Kendrick Lamar was analyzed in the article, Can Dead Homies Speak, by Monica Miller
What is "To Pimp a Butterfly"?
This is the name of the essay written by Audre Lorde, exploring the power of writing for women
What is Poetry is not a luxury?
Susana Morris critiques this idea that Black women and other minoritized people must behave “properly” to be accepted.
What is respectability politics?
A famous impromptu speech known as "Ain't I a Woman?" was given by this 19th-century abolitionist and women's rights advocate during the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in 1851.
Who is Soujourner Truth?
This term refers to the phenomenom where women's products are priced at higher level than similar men's products
What is the pink tax?
Beyoncé’s Lemonade includes imagery drawn from which Afro-diasporic spiritual system?
What is orisha/Yoruba/Afro-Cuban iconography?
This filmmaker, whose films we watched in class, creates stories that center Black trans experiences
Who is Tourmaline?
This method, coined by Black feminist theorist Sadiya Haartman, uses storytelling to combine historical and archival research with creative narrative to address omissions in the historical record.
What is critical fabulation?
This formerly enslaved woman was exhibited by PT and Barnum who claimed she 161 years old and was the nursemaid to George Washington
Who is Joice Heth?
The name of the cells taken from Henrietta Lacks that led to significant medical discoveries
What are HeLA cells?
The name of the 3 films Boylorn analyzes in her article "From Boys to Men: Hip-Hop, Hood Films, and the Performance of Contemporary Black Masculinity"
What are Baby Boy, Fruitvale Station, and Boyz in the Hood.
This non-binary author wrote the quote, "Blackness is gender trouble."
Who is Marquis Bey?
Lopez Bunyasi & Smith describe Black women’s role in the Women’s March and argue they practice idea
What is pragmatic utopianism?