Hey everybody! We started the Crunk Feminist Collective blog 11 years ago this month! And what a ride it has been. As a Collective, we have lived through the rise and the fall of the feminist blog. But never count a movement’s writers and thinkers out. We’re back and better than ever! I mean we […]
Black Women Demands
Black Women Demand Reparations & the Right to Live Free BIPOC women leaders have for centuries been stitching our community stories into the US tapestry to correct the white-washed narrative and reveal this nation’s bloody history. Black women have labored to produce and reproduce generations of possibility and freedom dreams, while countering the nonsensical myth-making […]
Putting On the Mask: A Holy Week Reflection
Putting On the Mask: A Holy Week Reflection John 18:38 (cf. Isaiah 59: 12-15) It’s Holy Week in Christendom. This is the week we live for, the week we celebrate our foundational myth, about Jesus the Christ, who ended a three year ministry of radical, feather-ruffling, temple-table-turning love, nailed to a cross, being executed by […]
Intersections of Justice in the Time of Corona Virus
By Cara Page and Eesha Pandit Opportunity for A New Frame This moment asks us to consider how we might pivot and adapt in a way that centers collective care, safety, and protection for each other. This is a good time to re-examine our relationship with vulnerability. Many of us are feeling vulnerable ourselves, while […]
Crunk Love Letters for Stacey Abrams
It is our tradition at the CFC to write love letters to comrades and friends-in-struggle. Stacey Abrams is certainly that. And because she is a Southern Black girl and the CFC began as a Southern (ATL-based) feminist project, we thought it befitting to send some CRUNK love her way. Dear Stacey, Two years […]
There is a Balm in Wakanda or Why Black Joy Matters
I’ve been to Wakanda twice now. And with nonstop, direct flights leaving from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport, the next time I go I ain’t coming back. You’ve probably read and/or avoided reading 1.5 million think pieces about Black Panther. And, yes, this is another. But, quite frankly, I’m not going down the rabbit hole of whether […]
Biological Clocks and Balldrops: A New Year’s Reflection on Black Women’s Time
I spent New Year’s Day re-reading A Wrinkle A Time, a book I first encountered in middle school. I have been invested in re-reading the book both because I’m eagerly anticipating Ava DuVernay’s forthcoming rendition of the movie, with a mixed Black girl as protagonist. But I also wanted to read it because I have […]
Trust Black Women. Then Show Up For Us.
Yesterday was my birthday. And all I wanted was for Doug Jones to win in Alabama. Ok, so that’s not entirely true. I wanted and received a chill birthday. I got a mani-pedi, saw Coco (I’m not crying, you’re crying!), did a bit a shopping, and ate cupcakes and Indian food. It was a good […]
In Search of Black Love
Summer 17 has been a hotbed of a hot ass mess. Between the atrocity that is the current presidential administration pushing backward retrograde policies intended to further marginalize and disenfranchise women and communities of color (especially those who are poor, undocumented, and LGBTQ) and the continued looming threat of the domestic terrorism of white supremacy, […]
Interview with Denene Millner
I am excited to share my interview with New York Time’s best-selling author Denene Millner. Denene is wife and a mother to 18-year-old and 15-year-old daughters and a 25-year-old stepson. She is the creator of the My Brown Baby Black parenting website and the author of the new children’s book Early Sunday Morning. We talked […]