Black FeminismArticles

Ms. Magazine honors 2024's most influential feminists, including the 27 women who sued Texas over its abortion ban, Kamala Harris, Black women voters, and brave women fighting for rights globally.

Yarlenis M. Malfrán situates Black transfeminist thought in Brazil and asks how racialization and cisnormative gender shape both the category of women and intellectual authority.

A regional report tracing how slavery’s colonial legacy persists through racialized poverty, labor, health, violence, and exclusion from decision-making for Afro-descendant women.

Audre Lorde treats anger as a political response to racism and a source of knowledge, asking how feminist solidarity can turn listening into responsibility, action, and institutional change.

How the Combahee River Collective connected Black women’s lived experience to interlocking structures of race, gender, sexuality, and class - and made self-definition a collective politics of liberation and coalition.

At an 1866 women’s rights convention, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper argues that voting rights matter but cannot by themselves secure equality. Black women face racial and gendered exclusion at once, and cannot be told to wait.

In an 1832 Boston address, Maria W. Stewart uses Christian rhetoric to call Black women and men toward learning and public participation while exposing how racialized labour restricts Black women’s opportunities.