After the Storm Posts Blog for Black Women Radicals
"A Daughter's Love Note: Decolonial Love Across the Greater Caribbean" revisits the Combahee River Collective for its 50th anniversary.
“Love as liberatory praxis urges us to depart from a colonial mindset that seeks to separate us not only from ourselves and history but also from our communities. Understanding our place within the struggles of racism, sexism, and inequality should come with an aperture to see love as a transformative tool that can aid us in our liberation.”
- Dr. Teona Williams, Dr. Kiana Gonzalez-Cedeño, Anais Couvertier Garay, and Lauren Prince (After the Storm).
The members of After the Storm, a collective of Black and Latinx feminists, scholars, organizers, and teachers of the Greater Caribbean, published a new blog post for Black Women Radicals this week!
Entitled “A Daughter’s Love Note: Decolonial Love Across the Greater Caribbean,” the blog interrogates the teachings of the Combahee River Collective and bell hooks to make visible Afro-Diasporic bonds across the Caribbean and bear witness to the survival, restoration, and rebellion of its people.
You can read the blog post here.
Black Women Radicals (BWR) is a Black feminist advocacy organization dedicated to uplifting Black women and gender expansive people’s radical political activism. Rooted in intersectional and transnational feminisms and Womanisms, they are committed to empowering Black women and gender expansive activists and centering their political, intellectual, and cultural contributions to the field of Black Politics across time, space, and place in Africa and in the African Diaspora.
After the Storm is a seed lab of the Diaspora Solidarities Lab, part of the LifexCode ecosystem, that aims to create digital maps and archives that record the survival of Afro-Descendant people across the Greater Caribbean, including Puerto Rico, The U.S. Virgin Islands, and The U.S. (Black) South.
