Revolutionary Feminisms

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Brenna Bhandar. Revolutionary Feminisms

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Revolutionary Feminisms

Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought

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This multi-scalar organising was vital to building coalitions between Black and South Asian feminists – coalitions that worked to tackle state-sponsored racism and sexism while openly discussing how communities and individuals are differentially racialised. This required very patient and conscientious work to study how class, race and gender operate in specific historical conjunctures. The analytic link they drew between class and race helped to articulate an inclusive and militant Black political identity. As we have noted, there were tensions and contradictions in this form of coalitional politics – yet it remains an important moment that foregrounded political unity.

This political identification was also reflected in novel forms of organising. Specifically, cultural production took on a vital role, as discussed above. Our interlocutors, in the following pages, invoked the potent work of poets and authors like June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison and Dionne Brand, among many others, in helping to shape their politics, while powerfully naming racism as a lived reality. As Bannerji has put it elsewhere, ‘the greatest gain, was meeting with young Black women, whose experience and politics matched with mine, whose poetry along with mine named our world’.57 Theatre, music, poetry, poster art and spaces of leisure, as well, helped to create a sense of common struggle and community, but also to address challenging subjects. For example, in her interview, Brah explains the importance of community theatre productions in tackling taboo topics like domestic violence.

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