“…Black feminist theory has made its work as an affective project evident, made clear that Black feminism is, at least in part, a project about feelings – making feelings visible; making clear how feelings are racialized and gendered; thinking about how to feel differently, how to feel better, how to feel anew, how to feel collectively.”
From How We Write Now, Living with Black Feminist Theory by Jennifer Nash
The resources below inspire the ongoing evolution of Black Feminism, Womanism: therapeutic perspectives course. The resources are intentionally multidisciplinary. It’s not exhaustive and builds on many existing lists for example, see Books on Black Feminism: 50 Recommended Reads (blackfeminisms.com) and Black women care ethics, radical love and the anti-black world: a reading list by Breya Johnson (blackwomenradicals.com).
Books
Black British Feminism: a reader edited by Heidi Safia Mirza
Can feminism be African?: A Most Paradoxical Question and a Vision of African Political Philosophy by Minna Salami
Code Noir, Fictions by Canisia Lubrin (foreword by Christina Sharpe)
Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power by Lola Olufemi
Listening to Images by Tina Campt
A Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand
Reenvisioning Therapy with Women of Colour: A Black Feminist Healing Perspective by Lani V Jones
The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara
Sisters of the yam: Black women and self-recovery by bell hooks
This bridge called my back : writings by radical women of color edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa.
Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room by Foluke Taylor
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman
What it Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World by Prentis Hemphil
Womanism Rising edited by Layli Maparyan
Articles
Black Feminist Self-Help: Or, Notes on the Genres of Contemporary Black Feminist Political Life by Jennifer Nash
Black Women and Wellness by Patricial Hill Collins
Introduction: Womanist and Mujerista Psychologies by Thema Bryant-Davis and Lillian Comas-Díaz, (open access full version)
The Shape of Angels’ Teeth: toward a Blacktransfeminist Thought through the Mattering of Black(Trans) Lives by Marquis Bey
Where we might go if we dare’: moving beyond the ‘thick, suffocating fog of whiteness” in feminism by Gail Lewis
Videos
CARE keynote: Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Evolutions of Womanism: From West African Roots to Emerging Ideas in the Caribbean. A conversation between Layli Maparyan, Ph.D., and Sheron Fraser-Burgess, Ph.D.
Hortense Spillers and Gail Lewis at the Institute of Contemporary Arts
‘On Feminist Exhaustion’ with Jennifer Nash and Samantha Pinto
Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Space-making and Living the Change We Want to Be with Foluke Taylor and Gail Lewis