Journal articleFeminist Theory · January 1, 2026
This article is an extended meditation on JoAnne Epps’ death. I argue that popular black feminism has instructed us on how to interpret her death by training us to use an actuarial reading practice. By actuarial, I mean a black feminist deployment of arith ...
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Journal articleFeminist Theory · August 1, 2025
In this introduction, we discuss feminist theory's difficult relationship with its own history and legacies. In particular, we discuss the field's (and our own) attachments to generational metaphors and chronologies. We acknowledge the lure and limitations ...
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Journal articleSigns · March 1, 2024
This article turns attention to the contemporary Black feminist trade book, which I argue introduces a new, highly visible, and highly profitable genre: Black feminist self-help. This article thinks critically about Black feminist self-help, tracking the e ...
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Journal articleFeminist Theory · April 1, 2023
This conversation returns to Robyn Wiegman's field-defining Object Lessons, reflecting on the book's travels, resonances, and continued importance a decade after its publication. ...
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Journal articleFeminist Theory · December 1, 2022
Dominance feminism and afropessimist theory, despite their critical appearances three decades apart, are undergirded by similar rhetorical strategies, political commitments and argumentative moves. This is the case even as afropessimism’s citational trajec ...
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Journal articlePublic Culture · September 1, 2020
This paper sits with the understudied subgenre of the contemporary black maternal memoir in the Black Lives Matter era. We read Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin’s Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin and Lezley McSpadden’s Tell the Tru ...
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Journal articleFeminist Theory · April 2016
This article examines the growing body of commemorative feminist work on intersectionality – the myriad journals and books that have marked intersectionality’s twentieth anniversary and celebrated the analytic’s field-defining status and cross-disc ...
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Journal articleGLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies · October 1, 2014
“Black Anality” argues that “black” and “anal” are rendered ideologically, discursively, and representationally synonymous, and that black female flesh becomes the material space on which this convergence occurs. Drawing on an archive of online, wi ...
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Journal articleMeridians · March 1, 2013
AbstractThis article examines the consolidation of love into a black feminist politics during second-wave feminism. By reading love-politics as both a practice of the self and a nonidentitarian strategy for ...
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