Canon: Theorizing and Resisting in Black Feminisms Organizing School
Canon: Theorizing and Resisting in Black Feminisms is Black Feminist Future’s advanced offering in The Black Feminist Schools program.
Canon: Theorizing and Resisting in Black Feminisms Organizing School
Canon: Theorizing and Resisting in Black Feminisms is Black Feminist Future’s advanced offering in The Black Feminist Schools program. As a Black feminist innovation and movement hub, Black Feminist Future created Canon to provide an advanced, rigorous leadership development and movement space for Black feminists organizers, strategist, and thought leaders to both engage with 21st century Black feminist canonical thought, and connect Black feminist across sectors, movements, and geographies. In particular, contemporary Black feminist scholars such as (Saidiya Hartman, Ruthie Gilmore, Hortense Spillers, Joy James, Dorothy Roberts, C. Riley Snorton, etc), are providing the theory and insight that many Black feminist leaders are using to inform their strategies and visions for their organizations and movement building oftentimes in isolation and not with other Black feminists. We intend for Canon to be a space where Black feminists are able to sharpen their abilities and capacity as leaders, strategists, and theorists.
THE OBJECTIVES OF CANON:THEORIZING AND RESISTING IN BLACK FEMINISMS ARE:
- An exploration of the conceptual understanding of what we are naming as contemporary canonical Black feminist thought
Canon defines contemporary canonical Black feminist thought as theory that builds upon and challenges third-wave frameworks of race, class and gender, intersectionality, etc. by offering divergent perspectives on the cause and remedy of systemic oppression faced by Black people. Born out of a necessity to contextualize and resist our 21st-century realities, these frameworks developed by (Black feminist scholars such as Saidiya Hartman, Ruthie Gilmore, Hortense Spillers, Joy James) provide us with the language and historical understandings of our Black Feminist Pasts (afterlife of slavery, gendering/ungendering of Black bodies, anti-blackness, the carceral state, reproductive violence, Black trans* history, etc) as we work to build our Black Feminist Futures. - The creation of an advanced and rigorous thought space for Black leaders across the various mediums of Black feminist work to engage in leadership development and movement connectivity.
From the halls of academia to the streets, Black feminists are confronting power, creating theory oftentimes in isolation or silos. Canon was created to remedy the lapses in connectivity that exist in academy, across movements, and across sectors. We intend to use this space to lift the veil that reinforces the disconnect between spaces of theory, praxis, sectors, and geographies.
Black feminisms
gets us free
Black Feminist Future (BFF) is a member-centered organization and our members help inform our work, campaigns, and initiatives. At BFF, we’re centering leadership development, community care, and joy in order to build the political and social power that we need to win concrete changes in our lives, community, and beyond.
