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Read my facemask: a woman at a rally of essential workers in Detroit, Michigan, US, October 2020. EMILY ELCONIN/REUTERS/ALAMY

10 Dec 2021 5 minute read

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The fight for lives and labour

Black women in the US do the socially important work, often unnamed and unrecognized, that is essential to the profit of an...

This is 1984, the first women’s march in Southall to protest against violence against women, particularly one woman – Krishna Sharma, who had taken her life after facing violence from her husband and in-laws. The protesters’ slogan was: ‘They call it suicide, we call it murder’ and they demonstrated outside the family’s house, a tactic borrowed from the Indian women’s movement. Credit: SBS

18 Jan 2020 20 minute read

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Why black matters

Rahila Gupta examines the roots of, and argues the case for, ‘political blackness’.

Women march during the National Black Consciousness Day in Sao Paulo, Brazil November 20, 2019. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

28 May 2020 3 minute read

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Black women in the vanguard

In Brazil, misogynoir – misogyny directed at black women – has been used to fire up President Jair Bolsonaro’s machismo base...

30 Oct 2018 4 minute read

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Remembering Una Marson: black feminist pioneer

Aditya Iyer looks at the legacy of black feminist poet, Una Marson.

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