Born and raised in Atlanta, GA, I have a Bachelor of Arts in English Creative Writing and another degree in Sociology. My specialization is Diversity, Citizenship, and Social Justice. I am a fantasy fiction, erotic romance, and literary fiction writer with the hopes of being published and having my work used in education and activism for social change and global justice. You can contact me at queenlyspeak@gmail.com or ms.queenly@yahoo.com.
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Maria
Hello,
I wanted to learn more about Black feminist bloggers, and if you knew perhaps why there is no longer a national group of Black feminists. Is there a socially progressive movement in progress? I only ask because the National Black Feminist Organization lasted for only 3 years in the 70s but no one has stepped up to begin another movement. I would appreciate your thoughts and commentary. Thank you.
Maria McDuffie
Graduate Office TA; MA Graduate Student
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Ms. Queenly
Hi Maria,
Thank you so much for your question and for visiting my blog. Its a good one and I can only offer my immediate thoughts and opinions.
It seems that, as you wrote, Black feminists were very active at one point, particualarly during and at the rise and aftermath, if you will, of the Black Pride Movement. Maybe many of them didn’t call themselves that but that seems to be how the academy and other Black scholars are labeling them and they label themselves. As you may or may not know Black women identify themselves within many subjectivities and identities, including Black feminist, feminist womanist, etc. The answer I can provide is this: Black women are continually evolving and growing and bettering themselves and, iin other ways that are the same as in the past, they are still suffering and struggling and fighting, like back in the day. As a young (Black) womanist, I find it disappointing that more women of my race and ethnicity don’t seem to idenitify as Black feminist openly and politically. The primary reasons I can offer are lack of resources (support, funding, representation, access to well known and utilized publication tools, etc.), lack of attention, lack of commitment and organization, lack of education and, in some cases, absolute miseducation on the subject matter, and lack of direction and/political agenda (a lot of women just live without the need to pick up the megaphone, pound the pavement marching, or hold organized meetings. Furthermore, societal issues facing Black feminists and even milestones/accomplishment are something that continue to compound and go unrecognized as we struggle to find direction). If you look at the 2nd and 3rd Wave of feminists (i.e. 2nd Waver Alice Walker and her 3rd Waver feminist daughter, Rebecca Walker, in particular are a good example), you can see a rift in some feminist thinking, experiences ideology and so on; I get to thinking that the 3rd Wave kind of “undid” some of what the 2nd Wave accomplished–so there, you have conflicting interests, motivations, goals, and understandings of the movement that I think contribute to the virtual abscence of Black feminists speaking loud and proud on the political stage. Maybe…no unity…no one’s one on the same page? Maybe some people really believe we live in a post-feminist (and apparently post racial *rolls eyes*) society, and that we don’t need feminism anymore, let alone Black feminists. Some people think concepts of women’s liberation is the worst thing that ever happened to the world…. Or maybe, hopefully, this is just a period of quiet before the storm or the break of dawn or what have you.
This is again, a good question, and I wonder myself. Luckily, I had two or three professors in college who gave me a heads up or I would never have known such a thing existed. I hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Ms. Queenly