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Showgirls and Social Media: An Awkward Partnership - Blackfeminisms.com
Miss Candi Yams argues that the relationship between social media and the burlesque showgirl community enables "burlesque influencers."
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December 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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July 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
In last night’s of HBO’s #TheGildedAge, Peggy Scott, portayed by Deneé Benton, held a suffrage meeting, giving a glimpse into Black feminist organizing in the 19th century.

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Peggy Scott and the Gilded Age’s Black Feminism
202507242313 In the third season of The Gilded Age, HBO’s visually stunning series set in 1880s New York, we witness a powerful portrayal of early Black feminist organizing through the charac…
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July 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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always a "workaround". In the "1908 Act to Create of System of Parole" codified the gendered logic of slavery into an incarceration framework designed to replace the convict leasing system. The state of Georgia forced paroled Black women to do (cont)
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Chain Gangs and the Domestic Labor of Black Women Convicts
In a 2013 article for Signs, Sarah Haley, an associate professor of African American Studies and Gender Studies at UCLA, examines Black women on Georgia’s chain gangs to articulate how race a…
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February 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
always a "workaround". In the "1908 Act to Create of System of Parole" codified the gendered logic of slavery into an incarceration framework designed to replace the convict leasing system. The state of Georgia forced paroled Black women to do (cont)
blackfeminisms.com/chain-gangs/
Chain Gangs and the Domestic Labor of Black Women Convicts
In a 2013 article for Signs, Sarah Haley, an associate professor of African American Studies and Gender Studies at UCLA, examines Black women on Georgia’s chain gangs to articulate how race a…
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March 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Here’s a closer look at how each of these influential women used literature to challenge societal norms and paved the way for Black feminism today. ⤵️
How 4 Black Women Writers Shaped Black Feminism
These influential women used literature to challenge societal norms.
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March 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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(This is a core principle of standpoint theory - here’s a brief explainer, happy to share more in depth articles if you’re interested. https://blackfeminisms.com/standpoint-theory/)
May 7, 2023 at 12:54 AM
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Because Black women in particular have 500 years of experience sussing out danger and calling those dangers out before most of the rest of us see it coming.

See also: feminist standpoint theory https://blackfeminisms.com/standpoint-theory/
What Is Feminist Standpoint Theory?
Feminist philosopher Sandra Harding lays out themes and concepts that characterize feminist standpoint theory in the introduction of a 2004 volume she edited titled The Fem…
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May 7, 2023 at 1:06 AM
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#10 BLACK WOMEN AND SEX WORK – RECENT RESEARCH

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(This one is FULL of fabulous book recommendations by Black female sex workers. Adding all to my wishlist)
December 3, 2023 at 2:49 AM
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Feeling freaked out by current political events? From an intersectional feminist perspective, not much is new. Sociologist Patricia Hill Collins coined the concept 'matrix of domination': four interrelated domains organizing power relations in society. blackfeminisms.com/matrix/
The Matrix of Domination and the Four Domains of Power
Sociologist Patricia Hill Collins coined the concept matrix of domination in her book Black Feminist Thought to describe four interrelated domains that organize power relations in society. This app…
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November 18, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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