Spent some time in California enjoying the company of Black women historians. There are no words for the joy and safety I feel with these ladies. It has been a journey and continues to be an adventure. Congratulations Erica Armstrong Dunbar, out-going National Director, and team, for all of the work she put in to make ABWH a success (before and through COVID!). Welcome and congratulations to Shennette Garrett-Scott, our new National Director, for all that you have done and will do to continue the legacy!!!! Let’s goo!!!!!
ALSO DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY, INC. WAS IN THE PLACE!!!!! SHOWED OUT!!!!!!!
And yes, I am a LIFE MEMBER so get into these memberships now: https://abwh.org/history/membership/
ABWH Citings
I offered comments on the panel “Between Joy and Violence: Black Sexuality, Corporeality, and Queerness.” A list of some texts I cited or incubated with as I formed my reflections on the beautiful work of Nyla Jones, Sha’Mira Covington and Kellie Carter Jackson. Some have PDFs alongside them, disfruta piratas:
Louis Chude-Sokei. “The Uncanny History of Minstrels and Machines, 1835-1923,” edited by Stephen Johnson, 104–32. Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2012).
Beal, Frances M. “Black Women’s Manifesto; Double Jeopardy: To be Black and Female.” 1969 http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/196.html
Deborah Gray White, Too Heavy A Load: Black Women In Defense Of Themselves 1894-1994 (W. W. Norton & Company, 1999). [PDF download]
Tina Campt, “The Loophole of Retreat--An Invitation,” E-Flux 105 (2019), https://www.e-flux.com/journal/105/302556/the-loophole-of-retreat-an-invitation/.
Combahee River Collective Statement: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/combahee-river-collective-statement-1977/
Beverly Greene, “Lesbian Women of Color,” Journal of Lesbian Studies 1, no. 1 (December 15, 1996): 109–47, https://doi.org/10.1300/J155v01n01_09.
The Black Women’s Studies Association https://www.blackwomensstudies.com/about-us
Stephanie Y. Evans, “We’ve Been Lovers on a Mission,” Palimpsest 10, no. 2 (2021): 219,VI-XII.
Some lagniappe —
Listenings
Check out: "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States." A Conversation with Dr. Leslie Alexander" by Patrick Jean-Baptiste: https://anchor.fm/negmawonpodcast/episodes/Scholar-Series-26a-Fear-of-a-Black-Republic-Haiti-and-the-Birth-of-Black-Internationalism-in-the-United-States--A-Conversation-with-Dr--Leslie-Alexander-e1rq3i5/a-a90dld6
More next week….