Feminist Theorist Thursdays
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Born in Brooklyn in 1947, Denise Oliver-Velez is famously known for being a member of the Young Lords, a rebellious…
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“I wanted to tell people how I became this woman with razor blades between her teeth.”
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Sara Ahmed is a British-Australian author who describes herself as a “feminist killjoy, affect alien, [and] angry queer woman of…
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Audre Lorde was a Black poet, feminist, and activist who wrote and spoke powerfully about race, gender, sexuality, and class.
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Fawn McKay Brodie (1915-1981) was one of the first women to become a tenured professor at UCLA, a controversial biographer,…
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Kate Millett (1934-2017) was an American feminist theorist, activist, writer, educator and filmmaker. Her main areas of interest were mental…
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Image from Wikimedia Commons. bell hooks is a Black feminist theorist, professor, and cultural critic who has authored over 30…
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Mitsuye Yamada is a Japanese American writer, educator, and activist. Her works expose the discrimination faced by Japanese Americans during…
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Davis has since become the figurehead for the prison abolition movement, a movement that calls into question what it means…
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Patricia Hill Collins is an acclaimed social theorist known for her intersectional approach to the sociologies of feminism, Black liberation,…
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