In this episode, first recorded in October 2021, Dr. Erica Williams (Cite Black Women Collective, Spelman College) shares her journey fighting Breast Cancer in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Here, she considers the healing power of Black women's words. Particularly, Dr. Williams reflects on the ways that Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals inspired her through her process of diagnosis, surgery and healing, and how she has used journaling and sharing her story to heal herself.

During the 2020 Lozano Long Conference, “Black Women’s Intellectual Contributions to the Americas: Perspectives from the Global South” February 20-21,2020, was a transnational and multilingual conversation amongst women who are often excluded from contemporary debates. The range of scholars, artists, and intellectuals engaged in discourse of Blackness that are often removed from Latin American and Black studies. Faculty organizer Lorraine Leu (LLILAS/Spanish and Portuguese) recorded an interview with Afro-Brazilian keynote speaker Rosana Paulino. Rosana Paulino is a visual artist, researcher and educator. She has a doctorate in visual arts from the University of São Paulo. Her work explores themes related to Black womanhood, identity, and the legacy of enslavement. The embodied archive that exists in art is a language of resistance that Paulino uses as a Black woman in contemporary Brazil. Black Brazilians are continuously remaking themselves in order to survive. Paulino art centers Black people as the protagonist of their own narratives, this work is more than intellectual it is personal.

Dr. Jenn M. Jackson (who uses the pronouns they/them) is a queer genderflux, androgynous Black woman, an abolitionist, a lover of all Black people, and an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University in the Department of Political Science. Jackson’s primary research is on Black Politics with a focus on group threat, gender and sexuality, political behavior, and social movements. Jackson also holds affiliate positions in African American Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and LGBT Studies. Jackson is the author of the forthcoming book Black Women Taught Us (Random House Press 2022). The book is an intellectual and political history of Black women’s activism, movement organizing, and philosophical work. It explores how women from Harriet Jacobs to Audre Lorde and the members of the Combahee River Collective (among others) have taught us how to fight for justice and radically reimagine a more just world for us all.

In this episode, Christen Smith and Jackson dive into what it means to be queer and Black. We police our bodies and genders in ways that hinder our goals of dismantling systems of gender/sexuality/race oppression. In this podcast, dr. Jackson articulates the ways in which blackness is inherently queer and how queerness gives us the vocabulary to speak our truth. Genderflux embodies what it means to love the people who are deviant, wayward, and criminal. Jackson’s articulation of abolition is intertwined with their definition of genderflux. As they articulate, “how we move in our bodies and how we choose to show up, matters just as much as how we fight for folk in our communities.” Black people's sensation of threat and fear is a deeply rooted lived experience. Jackson is currently completing two book projects: Black Women Taught Us, (Random House, 2022) and Policing Blackness: How Intersectional Threat Shapes Politics ( 2023).

¿Qué significa ser mujer negra en Argentina? ¿Qué significa ser una mujer negra activista en un país que históricamente ha invisibilizado y negado la negritud? Estas preguntas dan inicio a la conversación entre Florencia Gomes y la Dra. Prisca Gayles. Cubrimos el complejo sistema racial de extranjerización, borrado y ocultación que resulta en la posición de las mujeres negras como “otras” en Argentina, y cómo resulta en intercambios a nivel micro de patrullaje de los cuerpos y gestos de las mujeres negras. Florencia conecta la larga historia de activismo de las mujeres negras en Argentina con su historia personal como descendiente de caboverdianos. Ella detalla cómo se basa tanto en el conocimiento y el activismo de su bisabuela, su abuela, su tía y su hermana como en el trabajo de Audre Lorde, Sueli Carneiro, Victoria Santa Cruz, Yuderkys Espinosa y Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí. Las epistemologías feministas negras proporcionan el marco general a medida que desempaquetamos el desaprendizaje que debe ocurrir dentro del activismo de las mujeres negras; interseccionalidad dentro del movimiento feminista; proyectos concretos de activistas feministas negras en Argentina; y desafíos para la comunidad negra durante la pandemia de Covid-19. Terminamos la conversación con las visiones de Florencia para su propia trayectoria. Como arquitecta que ejerce en una disciplina tradicionalmente clasista, Florencia espera fusionar su activismo con su carrera profesional. Este enfoque abordaría la historiografía de la arquitectura en el currículo en Argentina para incluir lecturas críticas de edificios construidos por personas esclavizadas pero también propondría proyectos arquitectónicos orientados hacia la justicia social. Dichos proyectos incluirían la construcción sostenible en áreas históricamente negras de Argentina que carecen de servicios básicos.

In this episode, Cite Black Women Podcast host interviews Dr. A. Lynn Bolles about her pathfinding work on Black women and the politics of citation in anthropology. A Lynn Bolles, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita in the Department of Women’s Studies and an affiliate faculty member in Anthropology, African American Studies, Comparative Literature and American Studies at the University of Maryland College Park. She is the author/co/author of 5 books that focus on women, work and political economy in the English-speaking Caribbean and the Diaspora and over 80 articles that are interdisciplinary and intersectional. Her, “ 2001 “Forging a Black Feminist Tradition in Anthropology,” in Irma McClaurin’s volume, 2013 Transforming Anthropology article, “Telling the Story Straight: Black Feminist Thought in Anthropology,” other critical biographical work on Vera M Green, Irene Diggs, and Katherine Dunham and her forthcoming intellectual biography of Black women anthropologists, “Faceless and Voiceless No More” makes Bolles the leading figure in the contributions of Black women anthropologists to the field. In 2013 she urged “ cite Black women “ and that call is being answered

En el S2E14 del podcast Cite Black Women (Cita Mujeres Negrxs), Yineth Balanta Mina, Yannia Sofia Garzon Valencia y Alysia Mann Carey, se encuentran para conversar un poco sobre su vida y su activismo en torno al "Cuidado de la Vida" y las experiencias de re-existencia como mujeres negrxs.

En esta entrevista Yoalli Rodríguez, habla con Rosa María Castro lideresa y activista Afro-mexicana y con Itza Amanda Varela Huerta, profesora-investigadora del Colegio de México. Se hablan de temas sobre racismo en México, luchas de las mujeres negras en México, así como de su trabajo comunitario e intelectual. Además se habla sobre la demanda de reparación por parte del Estado mexicano. Esta conversación fue parte de la Conferencia de Contribuciones Intelectuales de Mujeres Negras a las Américas en Austin, TX, febrero de 2020.

Rosa María Castro. Máster en administración, activista, luchadora social, feminista negra o afromexicana, docente de formación para y en el trabajo, consultora y cocinera tradicional por convicción y desde hace más de una década trabaja formalmente por los derechos, la igualdad y el empoderamiento emocional, intelectual, económico, sociocultural y político de las mujeres, comunidades negras, indígenas, la diversidad, todas, todes.

Itza Amanda Varela Huerta. Profesora-investigadora en el Centro de Estudios de Género de El Colegio de México. Ha trabajado en el periódico mexicano La Jornada, en el Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustin Pro Juárez. Realizó una estancia posdoctoral en el CIESAS Pacífico sur (Oxaca). Investiga temas relacionados con los racismos, procesos políticos negros-afromexicanos, feminismos, estudios culturales y crítica Poscolonial.

In this interview by Yoalli Rodríguez, Rosa María Castro, Afro-mexican leader and activist, and Itza Varela Huerta, professor from El Colegio de México, we talked about racism in Mexico, the struggles of Black women, and their community and intellectual work, as well as demands for reparations from the Mexican State.

Rosa María Castro, Master´s degree in administration. Activist, social fighter, Black or Afro-mexican feminist, training teacher, consultant, and traditional cook by conviction. For more than a decade she was worked formally for rights, equality and emotional and intellectual, economic, cultural and political empowerment, of women, and Black and Indigenous communities. This conversation was recorded as part of the Black Women's Intellectual Contributions to the Americas Conference in Austin, TX February, 2020.

Itza Amanda Varela Huerta. Professor at the Center of Gender Studies of El Colegio de México. She has worked for the Mexican newspaper La Jornada, at the Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez Human Rights Center. She did a postdoctoral position at CIESAS Pacífico Sur (Oaxaca). She researches issues related to racism, Black, Afro-Mexican political processes, feminisms, cultural studies, and Postcolonial criticisms.

Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera recently earned their PhD in Latin American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. They will soon join Lake Forest College as an Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Latin American and Latinx Studies. They do research on issues related to environmental racism, mestizaje, and State violence in Mexico. They are a member of the Decolonial Feminist Network in Mexico.

This episode of Cite Black Women podcast features a candid dialogue about Black Women’s knowledge production and the politics of citation. On Friday, February 26th, 2021, scholars convened virtually at UC Berkeley. The lineup included CBW collective members Dr. Whitney N. L. Pirtle, Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Merced and Imani A. Wadud, PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of Kansas. The featured panelists were Derrika Hunt, Erin M. Kerrison, Frances Roberts-Gregory, Kerby Lynch, Nicole Denise Ramsey, and Reelaviolette Botts-Ward. Caleb Dawson organized the event and it was presented by the Black Graduate Student Association in collaboration with African American Student Development and The Office of Graduate Diversity. The conversation is both powerful and insightful, bringing together multiple points of Black feminist departure to creatively weave a series of alternative ethics, praxes, personal narratives, and radical philosophies around the urgency of Black citation and its future.

In this episode, Cite Black Women podcast host, Christen A. Smith sits down with Koritha Mitchell a literary historian, cultural critic, and associate professor of English at Ohio State University. to discuss book. From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture (August 2020, University of Illinois Press). In her most recent monologue, Mitchell illuminates the links between African American women's homemaking and citizenship in history and across literature.

Koritha Mitchell is a literary historian, cultural critic, and associate professor of English at Ohio State University. She is author of Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, which won book awards from the American Theatre and Drama Society and from the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.  She is editor of the Broadview Edition of Frances Harper’s 1892 novel Iola Leroy, and her articles include “James Baldwin, Performance Theorist, Sings the Blues for Mister Charlie,” published by American Quarterly, and “Love in Action,” which appeared in Callaloo and draws parallels between lynching and violence against LGBTQ communities. Her second monograph, From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture, was published in August 2020 by the University of Illinois Press. Her commentary has appeared in outlets such as CNN, Good Morning America, The Huffington Post, NBC News, PBS Newshour, and NPR's Morning Edition. You can find Dr. Mitchell’s full bio can be here: http://www.korithamitchell.com

In this episode Cite Black Women podcast host Christen Smith sits down with theoretical physicist and feminist theorist Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein to discuss Black feminist physics, the intersections between the matrix of violence against Black women and science, her radical Black feminist upbringing and her forthcoming book, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, & Dreams Deferred (March 2021, Bold Type Books).

Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Core Faculty Member in Women’s Studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is also a columnist for New Scientist and Physics World. Her research in theoretical physics focuses on cosmology, neutron stars, and dark matter. Using ideas from both physics and astronomy, she responds to deep questions about how everything in the universe got to the be the way it is. She also does research in Black feminist science, technology, and society studies. Essence magazine recognized her as one of “15 Black Women Who Are Paving the Way in STEM and Breaking Barriers.” She has been profiled in several venues, including TechCrunch, Ms. Magazine, Huffington Post, Gizmodo, Nylon, and the African American Intellectual History Society’s Black Perspectives. A cofounder of the Particles for Justice movement, she has received the 2017 LGBT+ Physicists Acknowledgement of Excellence Award for her contributions to improving conditions for marginalized people in physics, as well as the 2021 American Physical Society Edward A. Bouchet Award for her contributions to particle cosmology. She divides her time between the New Hampshire Seacoast, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. You can find Dr. Prescod-Weinstein's full bio can be here: https://www.cprescodweinstein.com

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