Photo courtesy of Ruth Cayford, MWW. Wednesday 29th September 2021 was no ordinary day in Cardiff. For a start there was glorious sunshine sandwiched in between days of seemingly relentless rain. And it was the culmination of years of planning,…
Category: Black History
Writing a woman’s trauma: by Kate Clifford Larson
Writing a woman’s trauma. Balancing Fannie Lou Hamer’s silence with newly recovered testimony. By Kate Clifford Larson Please note this post contains discussion of sexual assault and police brutality. On Sunday morning, June 9, 1963, African American Civil Rights activist…
Quiet resistance: Black women in British publishing in the 1970s and 1980s, by Preeti Dhillon
Since the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 and the subsequent growth of the Black Lives Matter movement, there has been a revival in the UK of our own civil rights movement and interest in anti-racist history. Much of…
27th October: Stella Dadzie
Join us for a special seminar to mark Black History Month: Stella Dadzie, ‘A Kick in the Belly’ Wednesday, 27th October 2021 at 4pm (UK) Register on Zoom here Stella Dadzie is a feminist writer, historian and education activist, best…
Joy as Gendered Resistance in Ashenda Celebrations during the Tigray War, 2020–Present, by Francesca Baldwin
Ashenda is a festival of womanhood, sisterhood, and female joy, celebrated every August in Tigray, Ethiopia. It brings together physical adornment, music, and dance to honour the feminine form, where female participants are gifted food, drinks, and money by the…
‘There has always been a Black women’s peace movement’: Women of Colour and Anti-War Activism in the U.S., 1968-1972 – Frankie Chappell
When I decided to submit a talk proposal for WHN’s 2021 Studying Herstories student conference, I had just finished an essay on women’s opposition to the Vietnam War, and had discovered some fascinating histories. The title of this blog, and…
13th October: Black History Month 4pm (UK) Naomi Richman and Xia’nan Jin
13th October: Black History Month Wednesday, 13th October 2021, 4pm (UK) Naomi Richman and Xia’nan Jin Register for your place on the Zoom webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F2Ld0QrWSmCm6MwyLs68aw Join us for these two fascinating papers in this double bill seminar that features as…
Queen Mother Moore and Reparative Histories by Dr Hannah Ishmael
Whilst the events of this summer have thrown into sharp relief the effects of state sanctioned violence against Black communities, globally, it is important to recognise that alongside the campaigns to end racism there has also been activity that seeks…
Diane Abbott: A Potted Herstory of a Pioneer by Drs Robin Bunce and Samara Linton
In many ways, Diane Abbott is a pioneer. In 1987, she became the UK’s first black woman MP. This alone was a historic achievement and should entitle her to a place in any serious history of British politics. However, this…