Please join us for a celebration of Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism. Author Dr. Jenn Jackson will be in conversation with Naledi Yaziyo, followed by Q&A from the audience and book signing. Order your copy of BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US ABOUT BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US Jenn M. Jackson, PhD, has been known to bring historical acuity to some of the most controversial topics in America today. Now, in their first book, Jackson applies their critical analysis to the questions that have long energized their work: Why has Black women’s freedom fighting been so overlooked throughout history, and what has our society lost because of our refusal to engage with our forestrugglers’ lessons? A love letter to those who have been minimized and forgotten, this collection repositions Black women’s intellectual and political work at the center of today’s liberation movements. Across eleven original essays that explore the legacy of Black women writers and leaders—from Harriet Jacobs and Ida B. Wells to the Combahee River Collective and Audre Lorde—Jackson sets the record straight about Black women’s longtime movement organizing, theorizing, and coalition building in the name of racial, gender, and sexual justice in the United States and abroad. These essays show, in both critical and deeply personal terms, how Black women have been at the center of modern liberation movements despite the erasure and misrecognition of their efforts. Jackson illustrates how Black women have frequently done the work of liberation at great risk to their lives and livelihoods.
For a new generation of movement organizers and co-strugglers, Black Women Taught Us serves as a reminder that Black women were the first ones to teach us how to fight racism, how to name that fight, and how to imagine a more just world for everyone. ABOUT DR. JENN JACKSON Jenn M. Jackson, PhD, is an award-winning professor of political science at Syracuse University and a columnist for Teen Vogue, where they write the popular “Speak On It” column that “explores how today’s social and political life is influenced by generations of racial and gender (dis)order.” A queer genderflux androgynous Black woman, Jackson primary research is in Black Politics with a focus on Black Feminism, racial trauma and threat, gender and sexuality, and social movements. Black Women Taught Us is their first book. ABOUT NALEDI YAZIYO Naledi Yaziyo is a bookseller and curator based in Oakland, Cali. In 2021 she founded Rofhiwa Book Café, a bookstore and coffee shop in Durham, North Carolina. Offering a curated selection to capture Black literary traditions across the world, Rofhiwa was named among the literary treasures of North Carolina by PBS.
Naledi curates bookish spaces in unconventional places, bringing the bookstore alive in unexpected places (bars, markets etc.). She holds a Masters’ degree in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University and brings her training to bear in her curation; presenting the book as material, cultural object imbued with meaning that changes with context.

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