Celebrating 50 years of creative, feminist voices, groundbreaking work, and relentless advocacy, our anniversary issue, Big Feminism, is out now (sub. req’d): https://t.co/nBBy4Tey1X
“This was a difficult book to write; it resisted easy resolutions and took me through bloody depths alongside the Black women who clawed themselves back from the brink.” —Kali N. Gross on her discomfort in writing Vengeance Feminism https://t.co/ROOUA0dDNj
“Gross challenges any idea that feminism isn’t or shouldn’t be violent, and it calls on us to understand that for some women, justice will be had by any and every means necessary.” —Michelle B. Taylor on Kali N. Gross’ Vengeance Feminism https://t.co/ROOUA0dDNj
“[Gross's] storytelling makes us uncomfortable, and it should. She complicates the ways scholars have simplistically understood capricious acts of violence.” —@kcarterjackson on Kali N. Gross’s Vengeance Feminism https://t.co/ROOUA0dDNj
"American culture insists that Black women in situations made desperate by a nation built on their exploitation should simply accept their lot.” —@ProfKori on Kali N. Gross’ Vengeance Feminism https://t.co/ROOUA0dDNj
"Both personal vengeance and collective resistance remain joined: a bicephalic entanglement of emotions within a predatory empire." —Joy James https://t.co/ROOUA0dDNj
This issue of @SignsJournal short takes features some of my favorite #Blackfeminist scholars including @kcarterjackson @ProfKori and Kali Gross whose new book if Vengeance Feminism, can't wait to read it!
How should instances of Black women taking the law into their own hands be understood when Black women have been denied the protection of the state and have never experienced any semblance of "justice" within the US legal system? Read for free! https://t.co/ROOUA0dDNj
The latest Short Takes forum, on Kali Gross's Vengeance Feminism, explores the role that retribution, anger, and violence have played in the lives of Black women. Read @kcarterjackson, Joy James, @ProfKori, & Michelle Taylor, available free! https://t.co/gTEqed59sD
"Criminalizing pregnancy complications has become a real threat. These policies reflect a deep-seated urge to control reproduction and women’s bodies that is often tied to a larger right-wing worldview." —Zoe Sullivan https://t.co/4kl2luIDMR
"As I read about the Belén in Argentina..., I thought of the South Carolina Belén and how many other Beléns there are and will be in the post-Dobbs United States." —Julia McReynolds-Pérez https://t.co/4kl2luIDMR
"Ana Elena Correa transmits us hope—in feminism, in collective action, and in sorority and solidarity. It is a message we desperately need to hear and a strategy we need to embrace in the US." —Cora Fernández Anderson https://t.co/4kl2luIDMR
What Happened to Belén "paints a harrowing portrait of what Belén had to endure...—and much of it was all too similar to what women, especially women of color, have faced in the US," writes Kylie Cheung in our latest Short Takes forum. Available free! https://t.co/4kl2luIDMR
What can the rest of the world learn from Argentine feminists' successes? "Hope, networks, learning from the past, staying vigilant in the present, & working toward the future—that is our task, yesterday, today, & tomorrow as well," @anaecorrea writes. https://t.co/luoSNCvmeo
Belén, a woman convicted of homicide after having a miscarriage, spent 2 years in prison. Her "ultimate victory," Zoe Sullivan writes, "would not have been possible without the organizational stability and solidarity of Argentina’s feminist movement." https://t.co/luoSNCvmeo