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"I emphasize how black feminists have advocated expansive conceptions of relationality, encouraging us to view ourselves as deeply embedded in the world, and thus as deeply connected to others, effectively exploding the hold romantic and familial have had
"I emphasize how black feminists have advocated expansive conceptions of relationality, encouraging us to view ourselves as deeply embedded in the world, and thus as deeply connected to others, effectively exploding the hold romantic and familial have had
on conceptions of intimacy, vulnerability, and relatedness. Black feminist conceptions of love as a unifying political principle encourages us to ask about our deep responsibilities to each other, and our enduring connections to each other, by virtue of our collective
inhabitation of the social world." - Jennifer C. Nash, Black Feminism Reimagined
if I would have had this book while writing my dissertation my goodness
if I would have had this book while writing my dissertation my goodness
“Black Feminism Reimagined has argued against treating intersectionality, and black women, as so-called white feminism’s salvific figures because of what this has done to black feminism and fo black feminists.”
I love this book.
I love this book.
The last paragraph of this book is 
. There are parts of it that so thoroughly help me understand my own work that I wish I was writing my dissertation rn (but not really that shit was traumatizing).
But it also helped me concretize a whole bunch of life ~things.
. There are parts of it that so thoroughly help me understand my own work that I wish I was writing my dissertation rn (but not really that shit was traumatizing). But it also helped me concretize a whole bunch of life ~things.
“My wish is for black feminist theory that can name the fatigue, the tiredness, and even the violence that comes with always being made a symbol, even if that symbol is seemingly a productive one... Letting go untethers black feminism from the endless fighting over
intersectionality, the elaborate choreography of rescuing the analytic from misuses, the endless corrections of the anslytic’s usage. Letting go allows us to put the visionary genius of black feminism to work *otherwise*. It is, thus, a practice of freedom.”
Anyway what I loved most about this book is how it was helping me process the ambivalence I feel (have always felt) about the academy. I don’t really know what that will mean for me long term, but short term it was lovely to be seen.
