Cite Black Women Podcast

Cite Black Women Podcast

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Cite Black Women Podcast episodes

  • Season 1, Episode 2: Dr. Dana-Ain Davis: "Citation As Spiritual Practice"
    In this episode, Dr. Dána-Ain Davis — activist, anthropologist, poet, doula, mother, grandmother— discusses citation as spiritual practice, poetry, love, birth and Black Women's storytelling with CBW's Christen Smith. This reflective and insightful conversation takes on a journey from her research to the possibilities and horizons of storytelling as radical engagement with Black women’s lives.
    Dána-Ain Davis is Professor of Urban Studies and Anthropology. She is the director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the Graduate Center. Davis’ work covers two broad domains: Black feminist ethnography and the dynamics of race and racism. With regard to the latter, she has examined the ways race and racism animate neoliberalism and reproduction. This project has resulted in one co-edited volume with Shaka McGlotten, Black Genders and Sexualities(2013) and two single authored books Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform: Between a Rock and Hard Place (2006) and Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (2019).Davis has co-edited or co-authored two books on feminist ethnography with Christa Craven, reasserting the importance of feminist ethnographic production as intervention. The most recent being Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges and Possibilities (2016).
    34 min
  • Season 1, Episode 1: "Citation and the Black Feminist Archive with Dr. Irma McClaurin."
    *Please note that there is an error in Dr. McClaurin's bio in the recording! Our apologies. We are working to fix this problem and will get a new, edited version up promptly. In the meantime, please refer to her bio here for the most up to date information: http://irmamcclaurin.com
    In this​ episode, Dr. Irma McClaurin talks with Christen Smith about the importance of Black feminist archiving for the project of citation. Through the story of the, "Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archive", Dr. McClaurin discusses her work to preserve Black women's intellectual contributions through the years, including the work of Zora Neale Hurston.
    This episode explores Dr. Irma McClaurin's politics of citation and her passion for archiving (Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archive) Black women's intellectual contributions. The conversation situates the Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archive, its contributions, it's treasures and the passion of understanding and documenting Black women's histories.
    Irma McClaurin, PhD/MFA (http://irmamcclaurin.com), is an award-winning writer, activist anthropologist, consultant and founder of the “Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archive” at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the Editor of BLACK FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY: THEORY, POLITICS, PRAXIS AND POETICS, a past president of Shaw University, and in 2015 was named “Best Columnist in the Nation” by the Black Press of America.
    Please consider donating to her archive here: bit.ly/blackfemarchive. This donation goes directly to UMass Amherst and is tax deductible. The goal is to reach $25k so it can be endowed. For inquiries or to donate materials. please email [email protected].
    41 min
  • Season 1, Episode 0: "We Are the Cite Black Women Collective"
    In this inaugural episode, CBW founder, Christen Smith and CBW Collective member and producer Michaela Machicote introduce Cite Black Women's podcast initiative, the history of the CBW project, and the radical Black feminist legacy of Audre Lorde that has been one of its primary inspirations.
    This is the launch episode of the Cite Black Women Collective's podcast. Please stay tuned for episodes that will coincide with #CiteBlackWomenSundays where we will feature interviews with Black women scholars on the importance of their work and citation as a praxis.
    10 min

About Cite Black Women Podcast

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The Cite Black Women podcast is a periodic program with a simple message: Cite Black Women. We have been producing knowledge since we blessed this earth. We theorize, we innovate, we revolutionize the world. We do not need mediators. We do not need interpreters. It's time to disrupt the canon. It's time to upturn the erasures of history. It's time to give credit where credit is due. This bi-weekly podcast features reflections and conversations about the politics and praxis of acknowledging and centering Black women’s ideas and intellectual contributions inside and outside of the academy through citation. Episodes feature conversations with Black women inside and outside of the academy who are actively engaged in radical citation as praxis, quotes and reflections on Black women's writing, conversations on weathering the storm of citational politics in the academy, decolonizing syllabi and more. For more information about our project follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @citeblackwomen and access our website at citeblackwomencollective.org #CiteBlackWomen