Southern Black Feminism

 This blog is dedicated to Southern Black Feminism.

Influenced by Professor Jayme Canty's Black Feminisms/ The Black Woman course at Kennesaw State University, we are interested in Black Feminism and the Black Radical Tradition traditionally but especially in the U.S. South and global South.

I'm Nijil Jones, an accounting major and former major in Georgia State University's Women's, Gender and Sexualities Studies Institute. I've also gotten to work with Black Feminists in the past to gain more perspective.

While this blog will examine Black Feminism in a way that assumes inclusion of non-cisgender women in Black Feminism, the blog will is extra clear to be inclusive because non-Black Feminisms have struggled with questions of inclusion of different gender identities.

Primarily, the topic of this blog is influenced by Brittney Cooper and her book Eloquent Rage. From Louisiana and educated in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., Cooper has been able to bring a specifically Southern perspective. All Black Feminist authors, such as Audre Lorde, are not able to claim such close ties to Southern heritage.

Specifically, we will be tracing the Southern histories and contributions of Black Feminism.

How exciting!