Tag: Blog

  • On Female Friendships

    This piece on writingwomen.co talks about female friendships as “toolkits against patriarchal harms” and “meditative spaces for healing.” 

    A short extract: 

    “The most unusual characteristic about female friendships is that, unlike other bonds and relations, they don’t require an incubation period to develop. We as women connect instinctively at moments when making connections are the most difficult task otherwise- raising an eyebrow at each other after sensing the danger, holding hands while crossing roads, sending congratulatory messages after a scary presentation, offering sanitary napkins at the oddest moments; there is so much that women do for each other even without asking. The sense of doing it for the other and yet for ourselves, without any conditions and expectations has a deeply healing effect.”

    Read the full article here.

  • What is Black Sociology?

    This post on the blackfeminisms.com blog is a useful short introduction to Black sociology.

    According to the author: 

    “Black sociology analyzes society from the standpoint of Black people to highlight how historical social structures affect them today. It offers a non-eurocentric perspective to address the interrelatedness of racial and economic inequality affecting society, making its practitioners scholar-activists who bridge the gap between academia and the masses.”

    The post gives a quick outline of the historical evolution of Black sociology, along with some of the key figures associated with it.

    Read the full blog post here.

  • An Index of Digital Archives of Radical Literature from Around the Globe

    Academic Evan Smith, who has “published widely on the topics of social movements, political extremism, national security, borders and free speech,” has put together a growing index of “radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised” on his WordPress blog. Most, if not all, of the included archives, are free to use, the blog claims.

    Browse this index of online collections and archives of radical literature from around the world here.