Black women taught us: an intimate history of Black feminism

Introduction : Black women taught us --

Harriet Jacobs taught me about freedom --

Ida B. Wells taught me about radical truth-telling --

Zora Neale Hurston taught me about the reclamation of our labor --

Ella Baker taught me why we should listen to young people --

Fannie Lou Hamer taught me to be (un)respectable --

Shirley Chisholm taught me to hold whiteness accountable --

Toni Morrison taught me that Black women are powerful --

The Combahee River collective taught me about identity politics --

Audre Lorde taught me about solidarity as self-care --

Angela Davis taught me to be an anti-racist abolitionist --

Bell Hooks taught me how to love expansively. --

Conclusion : I taught myself about patience.