This class is for participants who attended Part 1 or who already have a deep knowledge of the history of systemic anti-Black racism. Part 2 will dive deeper into the ways in which anti-Blackness is a foundational aspect of modern formations of settler colonialism, anti-fatness, and patriarchy. We will examine these various axes of oppression so that we may engage in our multifaceted liberation movements with the full understanding that without Black Liberation we cannot achieve collective liberation.

FURTHER READING: RESOURCE LIST

Books, Manifestos, Research, and Articles

• Slavery Is A Metaphor by Tapji Garba & Sara-Maria Sorentino

• To Critique: Decolonization is not a metaphor by Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang

• Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

• Following the Leadership of Disability Justice & Fat Liberation Organizers—in the COVID-19 Moment and Beyond by maya finoh

• Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun L. Harrison

• The Embodiment of Disobedience: Fat Black Women’s Unruly Political Bodies by Andrea Elizabeth Shaw

• I’m a Fat Activist. I Don’t Use the Word Fatphobia. Here’s Why by Aubrey Gordon

• The Fat Liberation Manifesto (1973)

• The Legal System Has Failed Black Survivors of Violence by jasmine Sankofa & maya finoh

• The Celia Project — Research Collaboration on the History of Slavery and Sexual Violence at UMichigan

• Before the Bus, Rosa Parks Was a Sexual Assault Investigator by Ryan Mattimore

• Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson’s Fight to Free Incarcerated Trans Women of Color Is Far From Over by Tourmaline

• The S.T.A.R. Manifesto (1970)

• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

• Why Did They Die? A Document of Black Feminism — the Combahee River Collective Pamphlet starts on page 42

• Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

• Femme Queen, Warrior Queen: Beyond Representation, Toward Self-Determination by Nsambu Za Suekama

Organizations to Support

• Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People

• Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH)

• In Our Names Network

• Marsha P. Johnson Institute

Follow on Instagram

• Black Indigeneity

• The Unplug Collective

• Marquisele Mercedes

• Sydneysky Griffin

• Ericka Hart

• Raquel Willis

• Black Women Radicals

• SUNU Journal

• Miss Major