Welcome to the first installment of Ready for Revolution: A digital study guide to raise our collective consciousness. Below you will find guiding study questions to interrogate as you learn, and our radical media recommendations for this installments subject matter: Black Femme and Queer Liberation.
Study questions
- How has gender become colonized?
- In what ways is the struggle for Black, Queer, liberation the struggle for the eradication of capitalism?
- How can I tap into this struggle?
- What can I contribute? (in reference to above question)
Study recommendations
Books
- Women’s Liberation and the African freedom struggle – Thomas Sankara
- The Invention of Women: Making an African sense of western gender discourses – Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
- The Gay Question: A Marxist Appraisal – Bob McCubbin
- Sister Outsider – Audre Lorde
- Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism
- Black on both sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity – C. Riley Snorton
- Decolonization and Afro-feminism – Sylvia Tamale
- Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writings
- The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni
- The Role of Women in the Revolution – Sekou Toure
- Women in Society – Sekou Toure
Essays/short writings
- Combahee River collective Statement
- Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare queens – Cathay Cohen
- An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman! – Claudia Jones
- I am Your Sister: Audre Lorde
- Breaking the Chains Magazine
Artists
- Mickalane Thomas (painter)
- Sophia Yemisi Adeyemo (painter)
- Sarah Huny Young (photographer)
Movies/documentaries/shows
- Litany for survival (documentary)
- Daughters of the Dust (movie)
- Paris is Burning (movie)
- POSE (show)
- Moonlight (movie)
- Looking for Langsthon (documentary)
- The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (documentary)
Below is a visual representation of this installments recommendations!
Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare queens was my formal introduction to the context of queer politics. Where did it come from? What does it look like? A true queer politic is revolutionary in that it directly challenges cisheteronormativity and must destroy capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, and all forms of oppression. Queer people cannot be free unless these objectives are accomplished.
Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare queens was my formal introduction to the context of queer politics. Where did it come from? What does it look like? A true queer politic is revolutionary in that it directly challenges cisheteronormativity and must destroy capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, and all forms of oppression. Queer people cannot be free unless these objectives are accomplished.