Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers
Black Feminism remains a foundational theory and practice guiding social justice movements for Black lives.
On Thursday, Jan 21 of Creating Change our Opening Plenary featured a panel with Charlene Carruthers, Reina Gossett and Barbara Smith.
Black Feminism challenges us to act on the inextricable connections of sexism, class oppression, racism, ableism, homophobia and transphobia. As the contemporary Movement for Black Lives has invigorated resistance to racism and structural violence, this panel reflects on ways that Black Feminism shapes and informs the current struggles and successes.
Barbara Smith, beginning in the 1970s, has broken new ground as a black feminist, lesbian, activist, author, publisher, and elected official. Barbara co-founded the Combahee River Collective in 1974. The organization wrote the Combahee River Collective Statement that is one of the earliest explorations of the intersection of multiple oppressions, including racism and heterosexism, critiquing both sexual oppression in the black community and racism within the wider feminist movement. Barbara Smith founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, publisher of numerous pivotal works by feminists of color. Barbara served two terms on the Albany (NY) Common Council and currently works in the City of Albany Mayor’s Office spearheading initiatives that address economic, racial, and social inequality.
Reina Gossett is an activist, writer, and artist and the 2014-2016 Activist-In-Residence at Barnard College’s Center for Research on Women. She served as membership director at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, lifting the voices and power of trans and gender non-conforming people. Reina was awarded the George Soros Justice Advocacy Fellowship by the Open Society Foundation to work with LGBT people navigating criminalization. During her fellowship she partnered with Critical Resistance to curtail the prison industrial complex by organizing low income LGBTGNC New Yorkers in a campaign that successfully stopped construction of a new jail in the Bronx. Reina co-wrote and co-directed the new film Happy Birthday, Marsha!, highlighting the life of legendary transgender artist and activist, Marsha P. Johnson.
Charlene Carruthers is a Black, queer, feminist community organizer and writer with over ten years of experience in racial justice, feminist and youth leadership development movement work. She currently serves as the national director of the Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), an activist member-led organization of Black 18-35 year olds dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. With a focus on intersectional liberation, Charlene’s organizing spans a broad range of topics. She currently serves as a board member of SisterSong, a reproductive justice organization that promotes solidarity among women of color, as well as being a member of a historic 2015 delegation of young activists to Palestine, building solidarity between Black and Palestinian liberation movements.
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here from the "anti-racism resources for white people" document. this video had some excellent points and i'm glad i took the time to watch. black lives matter!!
@finklee4659
4 жыл бұрын
Same!
@KathleenBurgess
4 жыл бұрын
Me too! This is a great conversation, so many jumping-off points to dive into more connected issues. Happy Pride!
@elsieegrace
4 жыл бұрын
@@KathleenBurgess exactly!! happy pride and be safe🌈💞
@cindy.belardo
4 жыл бұрын
I also came here from the resource document!
@missybe3238
3 жыл бұрын
I am sorry for all the white women watching this nonsense and thinking it actually means anything
"There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we don't live single-issue lives" -- Audre Lorde
Again, I believe all of these issues are important. Just browsing the sponsors of this particular venue, I see Comcast, Wells Fargo, and the Hilton corporation.
@april_showers97
2 жыл бұрын
the speakers call this out themselves at 29:53 …
@user-ur1uy7dz7e
9 ай бұрын
Nothing but leftist propaganda video 6 years old I guarantee these women moved no one
As a religious, black , hetero male (cisgender), it finally make sense to me that transwomen must be heard in the struggle for liberation. For years, I saw struggle as being something that should be in the charge of black males to govern as we seek liberation as a people. This panel helped me to understand that hearing out of the concerns from the most marginalized voice in the black community offers all of us an opportunity for liberation. So. myself as a historically anti LGBTQ person now understands the most vulnerable people must be heard and protected or none of deserves to be heard and protected. I trust these women understand suffering at levels deeper than I as a blackmailed expereince. Although gun violence and police brutality are issues for me, I've never been under the threat of rape, molestation, domestic violence, sex trade etc. These voices must be heard, so all voices may be heard!!!
@mightyblack1
3 жыл бұрын
All of us as a racial group should be heard and there's no anti black racism.
@user-ur1uy7dz7e
9 ай бұрын
Fuck transanything first off all your a black man I think your testicles seem to be missing. A straight man volunteering to call himself sis what a joke
@NanaLia_18
4 ай бұрын
Thank u
0 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his: 21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding: 22 He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him. 23 I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter. Daniel 2:20-23
"If you do not understand white supremacy (Racism) what it is, and how it works - everything else you think you understand - will only confuse you" Neely Fuller Jr.
@afiddlerthibeau3595
5 жыл бұрын
rockbottom23 is
@PIFF50
3 жыл бұрын
BLM are racists
I'm truly grateful for this panel
@user-ur1uy7dz7e
9 ай бұрын
Girl don’t let them trick you
"it's a responsibility of ours to take up community care of each other, and that self-care can't just be the responsibility of individuals." SO important, and not really talked about enough, I think. Especially for privileged people working with/for communities of less privileged.
I am viewing the Black panel of women, and I had not heard not one talk about non-black issues. I hear each one talk about current issues of Black protest, Black women and children being murdered by police. I also heard these individuals talk about Black men being murdered. I also hear about black hate groups triple discrimination of Black LGBTQ issues. There's a lot of hate fueling in the Black community. It is okay when Black women are quiet, exploited in rap videos. and viewed as a lie ,or a whore when rapped. However, it's not acceptable for Black women to be proactive, independent woman, an eclectic, intellectual lesbian. Blacks who think it is okay to bash Black women all on public web pages in show of ignorance is okay, but when Black women fight for Black problems we are told to shut up, that's not right at all! No matter what we are all still Black people. You don't pick which blacks to persecute simply, because they are not the replicas of every other black person. What struggles happens to gay , straight, Black people, women, children,and men happens to all of us the same.
ребят !!🥺 может быть, кто-нибудь знает, есть ли на просторах интернета это видео с русскими с субтитрами? заранее спасибо, мы сможем изменить этот мир💗
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@Man295t
5 жыл бұрын
LocQueen this is the best comment. Stay away from these fools lol. Build strong family with a husband please 🙏🏾
"“The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic admiration.” ― Maya Angelou behold the hatred of black women evident in many of the comments below. see it for what it is. how do you love black people and harbor hatred for so many?
is it just me or do smart people say the word "right" after the make a point, a lot?
😭lately I’ve been getting into black feminism 😭I agree with so much of this I like learning new stuff
@v8jaylasell676
2 жыл бұрын
This is not new feminist came from white women long long time ago when a country had kicked out all of there women to a different city.Thats how they came with the hero wonder women an island full amazon women.
I thought this was a really valuable discussion. Barbara Smith reminds me of my wisest professor. Yet, part of me can't help but be suspicious of a scholarship from the George Soros Fellowship as something that doesn't come attached to Soros' neoliberal agenda. I also found this, facebook.com/events/1390905471158008/. I also thought Reina Gossett had valuable things to say about trans issues but took an unnecessarily negative tone on mainstream gay issues when she first addressed them, as if we should all be treated hands down like we aren't sympathetic to what you have to say.
Boy, Girl, please. They would kill u in 😒 Palestine.....yaaasss foo. Im 4 Palestine but im also for truth.
Sorry but Feminism was a big part of the tough on crime movement and still is. It is also a threat to gay men who get hurt by puritanical laws they push for.
@ianwazowski5607
Жыл бұрын
No, blm, feminism and lgbt activism are ALL valid
90 million gone 🤣🤣 SMH
Its just sicking.
@Man295t
5 жыл бұрын
Kerry Williams the gay agenda
@hotshotj2178
5 жыл бұрын
Like your picture
@hc6417
3 жыл бұрын
These idiots dont even realise the feminist and LGBTQ movement is owned and financed by white supremacists
That person is a man not woman….deep voice and quarterback shoulders
1970's black men just stared fighting for equal rights! Mouth mean to tell me 70 years later this b.s pops up
Who would want to deal with these women omg lord destroy this place
@odeeversley6464
5 жыл бұрын
Beaudee Martinez pathetic response.
@kaspergv1793
4 жыл бұрын
For someone who clearly doesn’t like this video you sure have spent a lot of time posting comments on it. it’s almost like you’re obsessed.
@bagsbrickerman3168
3 жыл бұрын
Well said Imho
@marsthatdamnrebel
2 жыл бұрын
It's okay if you don't understand this particular liberation struggle. But why wish violence on other Black women? That's a lot of self-hatred.
Cringe alert!
Traitors
Ok. I skipped through far enough that I can now laugh and downvote without feeling lazy.