{"id":7969,"date":"2023-06-13T09:18:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T13:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/?page_id=7969"},"modified":"2026-05-21T20:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T00:28:08","slug":"transnational-black-feminisms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/projects\/transnational-black-feminisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Transnational Black Feminisms"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"7969\" class=\"elementor elementor-7969\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bececb9 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"bececb9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-efbf6b2 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"efbf6b2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5772d7f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5772d7f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Transnational Black Feminisms<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a6b4b30 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a6b4b30\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Transnational Black Feminisms was initiated by Premilla Nadasen and Celia Naylor as a working group at Columbia University\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialdifference.columbia.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.socialdifference.columbia.edu&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1696165111480000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3aUPxsqmqf76uOtN1Qe2nH\">Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD)<\/a>\u00a0in 2019. In 2023, Tami Navarro joined Premilla as project co-director,\u00a0Anna Reumert\u00a0joined as project\u00a0assistant,\u00a0and the working group partnered with BCRW. The podcast and the conference are supported by CSSD and BCRW.<\/p><p>This working group aims to think about how transnational Black feminism can move us beyond survivability, beyond demands for recognition, and generate alternative frames and understandings around belonging, community, justice, and equity. Black feminism has by necessity emerged in tandem with political mobilizations: the struggle against slavery, anti-colonialism, opposition to sexual violence, and movements against state violence. These struggles have created the conditions of possibility for radical social transformation. They have also been deeply embedded in the crucial processes of raising broader, foundational questions about the relationship between theory and praxis, between lived experiences, and the articulation of expansive visions of social change.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-69b93b0 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"69b93b0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5e1e419 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5e1e419\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-19a6010 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"19a6010\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Participants:<\/strong><\/p><ul><li>Vanessa Agard-Jones, Anthropology, Columbia University<\/li><li>Yvette Christians\u00eb, English and Africana Studies, Barnard College<\/li><li>Dana-Ain Davis, Anthropology, Queen\u2019s College<\/li><li>Abosede George, Africana Studies and History, Barnard College<\/li><li>Natasha Lightfoot, History, Columbia University<\/li><li>Manijeh Moradian, Women\u2019s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College<\/li><li>Premilla Nadasen, History, Barnard College<\/li><li>Celia E. Naylor, Africana Studies and History, Barnard College<\/li><li>Tami Navarro, Africana Studies, Drew University<\/li><li>Keisha-Khan Perry, University of Pennsylvania<\/li><li>Anna Reumert, Columbia University<\/li><li>Robyn Spencer, History, Lehman College, CUNY<\/li><li>Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, African-American Studies, Northwestern University<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ab3f8d1 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"ab3f8d1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c0b6eb0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"c0b6eb0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BCRW-TBFpodcastrecording2.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-8013\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b909a00 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"b909a00\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BCRW-TBF-workinggroup2.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-8014\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">THE SCHOLAR AND FEMINIST CONFERENCE 49: Anti-Colonialism, Black Radicalism, and Transnational Feminism<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-804c0ab e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"804c0ab\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d3710bd elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d3710bd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Podcast<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b40f25e elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b40f25e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Transnational Black Feminisms was initiated by Premilla Nadasen and Celia Naylor as a working group at Columbia University\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialdifference.columbia.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.socialdifference.columbia.edu&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1696165111480000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3aUPxsqmqf76uOtN1Qe2nH\">Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD)<\/a>\u00a0in 2019. In 2023, Tami Navarro joined Premilla as project co-director,\u00a0Anna Reumert\u00a0joined as project\u00a0assistant,\u00a0and the working group partnered with BCRW. The podcast and the conference are supported by CSSD and BCRW.<\/p><p>This working group aims to think about how transnational Black feminism can move us beyond survivability, beyond demands for recognition, and generate alternative frames and understandings around belonging, community, justice, and equity. Black feminism has by necessity emerged in tandem with political mobilizations: the struggle against slavery, anti-colonialism, opposition to sexual violence, and movements against state violence. These struggles have created the conditions of possibility for radical social transformation. They have also been deeply embedded in the crucial processes of raising broader, foundational questions about the relationship between theory and praxis, between lived experiences, and the articulation of expansive visions of social change.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e6f58dc e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e6f58dc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d027d31 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d027d31\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-04179bc e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"04179bc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0e8a646 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"0e8a646\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/tbf-podcast-1.webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-8017\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-096f431 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"096f431\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c69cce0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c69cce0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Episode 1: Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine<\/strong><\/p><p>In this episode, Premilla Nadasen speaks with Robyn Spencer-Antoine (Lehman College) about her forthcoming biography of Black socialist feminist Pat Murphy Robinson, <em>Radical Therapist: Pat Murphy Robinson and the Black Freedom Movement<\/em>. Robinson\u2019s work as a counselor, theorist and transnational activist lays the foundation for the conversation which examines the connections between colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism and people\u2019s everyday lives\u2013their struggles around child care, mental health, relationships, and their \u201cinterior life.\u201d<\/p><p>    <div class=\"fs-player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/TBF01-Robyn-C-Spencer-Antoine.mp3?_=1\">\n                    <div class=\"fs-title\">Transnational Black Feminisms<\/div>\n        \n        <button class=\"fs-play-btn\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play \/ Pause\">\n\n    <span class=\"fs-play-icon\">\u25b6<\/span>\n\n    <span class=\"fs-pause-icon\">\u275a\u275a<\/span>\n\n<\/button>\n\n<div class=\"fs-waveform\" aria-label=\"Audio progress\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"fs-time\">\n\n    <span class=\"fs-current\">0:00<\/span>\n\n    <span class=\"fs-duration\">\u2013:\u2013<\/span>\n\n<\/div>\n\n  \n    <\/div>\n    <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5cd93c7 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5cd93c7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b2cd91 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3b2cd91\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a240b8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1a240b8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/tbf-podcast-1.webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-8017\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6cdc7a3 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"6cdc7a3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9004fcf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9004fcf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Episode 2: Natasha Lightfoot<\/strong><\/p><p>In this episode, Tami Navarro interviews Natasha Lightfoot (Columbia University) about her work on everyday abolition struggles in the Caribbean under British colonial rule. Grounded in an engagement with Natasha\u2019s 2015 text, <em>Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation<\/em> (Duke University Press), this conversation examines the contours of freedom, the limits of archives, and the broader political commitments that can inform intellectual labor.<\/p><p>    <div class=\"fs-player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/TBF01-Robyn-C-Spencer-Antoine.mp3?_=2\">\n                    <div class=\"fs-title\">Transnational Black Feminisms<\/div>\n        \n        <button class=\"fs-play-btn\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play \/ Pause\">\n\n    <span class=\"fs-play-icon\">\u25b6<\/span>\n\n    <span class=\"fs-pause-icon\">\u275a\u275a<\/span>\n\n<\/button>\n\n<div class=\"fs-waveform\" aria-label=\"Audio progress\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"fs-time\">\n\n    <span class=\"fs-current\">0:00<\/span>\n\n    <span class=\"fs-duration\">\u2013:\u2013<\/span>\n\n<\/div>\n\n  \n    <\/div>\n    <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7126e0d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7126e0d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-db5caaf e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"db5caaf\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ba1f0e7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"ba1f0e7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/tbf-podcast-1.webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-8017\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68c9633 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"68c9633\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6de2ca5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6de2ca5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Episode 3: Abosede George<\/strong><\/p><p>This episode features Tami Navarro in conversation with Abosede George (Barnard College) about her work on black girlhood in Nigeria, and reflections on Black immigrant life in the US. In a wide-ranging interview rooted in Abosede\u2019s text <em>Making Modern Girls: A History of Girlhood, Labor, and Social Development in Colonial Lagos<\/em> (Ohio University Press, 2014), Tami and Abosede discuss the ways that life phases such as \u2018childhood\u2019 and \u2018girlhood\u2019 are variously available\u2013or foreclosed\u2013to communities along lines of race; the circuitous itinerary of Abosede\u2019s early life and how it informs her current approach to research; and the complexity of identity within the African diaspora.<\/p><p>    <div class=\"fs-player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/TBF01-Robyn-C-Spencer-Antoine.mp3?_=3\">\n                    <div class=\"fs-title\">Transnational Black Feminisms<\/div>\n        \n        <button class=\"fs-play-btn\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play \/ Pause\">\n\n    <span class=\"fs-play-icon\">\u25b6<\/span>\n\n    <span class=\"fs-pause-icon\">\u275a\u275a<\/span>\n\n<\/button>\n\n<div class=\"fs-waveform\" aria-label=\"Audio progress\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"fs-time\">\n\n    <span class=\"fs-current\">0:00<\/span>\n\n    <span class=\"fs-duration\">\u2013:\u2013<\/span>\n\n<\/div>\n\n  \n    <\/div>\n    <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transnational Black Feminisms was initiated by Premilla Nadasen and Celia Naylor as a working group at Columbia University\u2019s\u00a0Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD)\u00a0in 2019. 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