J.PERIOD and multi-talented Nigerian songstress Nneka team up for The Madness (Onye-Ala), a genre-bending collection of hip hop, reggae, trip hop, drum'n'bass and more. Featuring production by Germany's FaRHoT and guest appearances from heavyweights of all kinds, The Madness (Onye-Ala) includes exclusive new tracks from M-1 (Dead Prez), Jay Electronica, Zumbi (Zion I), Rakaa (Dilated Peoples), Aceyalone (Freestyle Fellowship), General Steele (Boot Camp Clik) & Talib Kweli.

J.PERIOD & Nneka "The Madness (Onye-Ala)"

En el S2E14 del podcast Cite Black Women (Cita Mujeres Negrxs), Yineth Balanta Mina, Yannia Sofia Garzon Valencia y Alysia Mann Carey, se encuentran para conversar un poco sobre su vida y su activismo en torno al "Cuidado de la Vida" y las experiencias de re-existencia como mujeres negrxs.

S2E14 - Nuestro Amor A La Vida Es Más Fuerte Que Nuestro Temor A La Muerte

In this episode, Cite Black Women Podcast host interviews Dr. A. Lynn Bolles about her pathfinding work on Black women and the politics of citation in anthropology. A Lynn Bolles, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita in the Department of Women’s Studies and an affiliate faculty member in Anthropology, African American Studies, Comparative Literature and American Studies at the University of Maryland College Park.  She is the author/co/author of 5 books that focus on women, work and political economy in the English-speaking Caribbean and the Diaspora and over 80 articles that are interdisciplinary and intersectional. Her, “ 2001 “Forging a Black Feminist Tradition in Anthropology,” in Irma McClaurin’s volume, 2013 Transforming Anthropology article, “Telling the Story Straight: Black Feminist Thought in Anthropology,” other critical biographical work on Vera M Green, Irene Diggs, and Katherine Dunham and her forthcoming intellectual biography of Black women anthropologists, “Faceless and Voiceless No More” makes Bolles the leading figure in  the contributions of Black women anthropologists to the field.  In 2013 she urged “ cite Black women “ and that call is being answered

S2E15: A Conversation with A. Lynn Bolles on The History and Labor of Citational Practices

Dr. Jenn M. Jackson (who uses the pronouns they/them) is a queer genderflux, androgynous Black woman, an abolitionist, a lover of all Black people, and an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University in the Department of Political Science. Jackson’s primary research is on Black Politics with a focus on group threat, gender and sexuality, political behavior, and social movements. Jackson also holds affiliate positions in African American Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and LGBT Studies. Jackson is the author of the forthcoming book Black Women Taught Us (Random House Press 2022). The book is an intellectual and political history of Black women’s activism, movement organizing, and philosophical work. It explores how women from Harriet Jacobs to Audre Lorde and the members of the Combahee River Collective (among others) have taught us how to fight for justice and radically reimagine a more just world for us all. 

In this episode, Christen Smith and Jackson dive into what it means to be queer and Black. We police our bodies and genders in ways that hinder our goals of dismantling systems of gender/sexuality/race oppression. In this podcast, dr. Jackson articulates the ways in which blackness is inherently queer and how queerness gives us the vocabulary to speak our truth. Genderflux embodies what it means to love the people who are deviant, wayward, and criminal. Jackson’s articulation of abolition is intertwined with their definition of genderflux. As they articulate, “how we move in our bodies and how we choose to show up, matters just as much as how we fight for folk in our communities.” Black people's sensation of threat and fear is a deeply rooted lived experience. Jackson is currently completing two book projects: Black Women Taught Us, (Random House, 2022) and Policing Blackness: How Intersectional Threat Shapes Politics ( 2023).

Waking Up Queer and Black:  A conversation with Dr. Jenn M. Jackson S3E1

During the 2020 Lozano Long Conference, “Black Women’s Intellectual Contributions to the Americas: Perspectives from the Global South” February 20-21,2020, was a transnational and multilingual conversation amongst women who are often excluded from contemporary debates. The range of scholars, artists, and intellectuals engaged in discourse of Blackness that are often removed from Latin American and Black studies. Faculty organizer Lorraine Leu (LLILAS/Spanish and Portuguese) recorded an interview with Afro-Brazilian keynote speaker Rosana Paulino. Rosana Paulino is a visual artist, researcher and educator. She has a doctorate in visual arts from the University of São Paulo. Her work explores themes related to Black womanhood, identity, and the legacy of enslavement. The embodied archive that exists in art is a language of resistance that Paulino uses as a Black woman in contemporary Brazil. Black Brazilians are continuously remaking themselves in order to survive. Paulino art centers Black people as the protagonist of their own narratives, this work is more than intellectual it is personal.

A Função do Arte no Brasil Contemporâneo: Uma conversa entre Rosana Paulino e Lorraine Leu S3E2

In this episode, first recorded in October 2021, Dr. Erica Williams (Cite Black Women Collective, Spelman College) shares her journey fighting Breast Cancer in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Here, she considers the healing power of Black women's words. Particularly, Dr. Williams reflects on the ways that Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals inspired her through her process of diagnosis, surgery and healing, and how she has used journaling and sharing her story to heal herself.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Erica Williams on Women's Healing Words S3E3

In this inaugural episode, CBW founder, Christen Smith and CBW Collective member and producer Michaela Machicote introduce Cite Black Women's podcast initiative, the history of the CBW project, and the radical Black feminist legacy of Audre Lorde that has been one of its primary inspirations. 

This is the launch episode of the Cite Black Women Collective's podcast. Please stay tuned for episodes that will coincide with #CiteBlackWomenSundays where we will feature interviews with Black women scholars on the importance of their work and citation as a praxis.

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Season 1, Episode 0: "We Are the Cite Black Women Collective"

*Please note that there is an error in Dr. McClaurin's bio in the recording! Our apologies. We are working to fix this problem and will get a new, edited version up promptly. In the meantime, please refer to her bio here for the most up to date information: http://irmamcclaurin.com

In this​ episode, Dr. Irma McClaurin talks with Christen Smith about the importance of Black feminist archiving for the project of citation. Through the story of the, "Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archive", Dr. McClaurin discusses her work to preserve Black women's intellectual contributions through the years, including the work of Zora Neale Hurston. 

This episode explores Dr. Irma McClaurin's politics of citation and her passion for archiving (Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archive) Black women's intellectual contributions. The conversation situates the Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archive, its contributions, it's treasures and the passion of understanding and documenting Black women's histories. 

Irma McClaurin, PhD/MFA (http://irmamcclaurin.com), is an award-winning writer, activist anthropologist, consultant and founder of the “Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archive” at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the Editor of BLACK FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY: THEORY, POLITICS, PRAXIS AND POETICS, a past president of Shaw University, and in 2015 was named “Best Columnist in the Nation” by the Black Press of America.

Please consider donating to her archive here: bit.ly/blackfemarchive. This donation goes directly to UMass Amherst and is tax deductible. The goal is to reach $25k so it can be endowed. For inquiries or to donate materials. please email blackfeministarchive@gmail.com.

Season 1, Episode 1: "Citation and the Black Feminist Archive with Dr. Irma McClaurin."

In this episode, Dr. Dána-Ain Davis — activist, anthropologist, poet, doula, mother, grandmother— discusses citation as spiritual practice, poetry, love, birth and Black Women's storytelling with CBW's Christen Smith. This reflective and insightful conversation takes on a journey from her research to the possibilities and horizons of storytelling as radical engagement with Black women’s lives.

Dána-Ain Davis is Professor of Urban Studies and Anthropology.  She is the director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the Graduate Center. Davis’ work covers two broad domains: Black feminist ethnography and the dynamics of race and racism. With regard to the latter, she has examined the ways race and racism animate neoliberalism and reproduction. This project has resulted in one co-edited volume with Shaka McGlotten, Black Genders and Sexualities(2013) and two single authored books Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform: Between a Rock and Hard Place (2006) and Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (2019).Davis has co-edited or co-authored two books on feminist ethnography with Christa Craven, reasserting the importance of feminist ethnographic production as intervention. The most recent being Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges and Possibilities (2016).

Season 1, Episode 2: Dr. Dana-Ain Davis: "Citation As Spiritual Practice"

In this Martin Luther King Day special podcast, we honor the legacy of Ella baker with a discussion of Black women’s radical activism, citational politics and transnationalism. The conversation begins with a brief introduction on Ella Baker and the visionary leadership of the Black women who surrounded Dr. King. We then move into an interview that host Christen Smith conducted with Dr. Keisha-Khan Perry (Brown University) in November 2018. 

Keisha Khan Perry is a feminist anthropologist and political activist whose research focuses on urban social movements against the violence of forced displacement. She is the author of the prize-winning book, Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil, an ethnographic study of black women’s activism for housing and land rights in the northeastern Brazilian city of Salvador. With an emphasis on the United States, Jamaica, and Brazil, she continues to write on issues of black land ownership and loss and the related gendered racial logics of black dispossession in the African diaspora. She recently served on the Latin American Studies Association delegation to investigate the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.

Season 1, Episode 3: “Transnationalism, Anti-Imperialism & Citation with Dr. Keisha-Khan Perry"

In this special Valentine's Day/Black History Month Episode of the Cite Black Women podcast, we feature a conversation between collective member Dr. Erica Williams and the world renowned Black feminist scholar Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall. Listen to them discuss their #love for Black women's work, their passion for writing, the importance of friendship in the academy and collaborative research, and why Cite Black Women is a project that we need right now. Enjoy. 

Dr. ERICA LORRAINE WILLIAMS is Associate Professor and Department Chair of the Sociology and Anthropology department at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She has a Ph.D. and M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Stanford University, and a B.A. in Anthropology and Africana Studies from New York University. She is the author of Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements (2013), which won the National Women’s Studies Association/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize in 2011. She is also a co-editor of The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology, along with Ira Harrison and Deborah Johnson-Simon(University of Illinois Press, 2018). She is Contributing Editor to the Handbook of Latin American Studies (Sociology: Brazil section), and has published in Feminist Studies, Gender, Place, and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography,the Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbook on Gender: Love, Transatlantic Feminisms: Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the Diaspora (2015), Policing Pleasure: Global Reflections on Sex Work and Public Policy(2011); and Taking Risks: Feminist Stories of Social Justice Research in the Americas(2014). She is currently working on a project on Afro-Brazilian feminist activism in Bahia, Brazil. 

Dr. BEVERLY GUY-SHEFTALL is founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center, Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies at Spelman College, adjunct professor at Emory University’s Institute for Women’s Studies and past President of the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA).
At the age of sixteen, Dr. Guy-Sheftall entered Spelman College where she majored in English and minored in secondary education.  After graduating with honors, she attended Wellesley College for a fifth year of study in English, and then went on to Atlanta University to pursue a master’s degree in English.  Her thesis was entitled, “Faulkner’s Treatment of Women in His Major Novels.”  A year later Dr. Guy-Sheftall began her first teaching job in the Department of English at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama.  In 1971 she returned to her alma mater, Spelman College, and joined the English Department.
Dr. Guy-Sheftall has a long history of researching and writing about African American Women’s intellectual contributions. She co-edited the first anthology on Black women’s literature, Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature, with Roseann P. Bell and Bettye Parker Smith in 1979. In 1983 she became founding editor of Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women which was devoted exclusively to the experiences of women of African descent, which was published from 1983-1996. In 1991 she published her dissertation Daughters of Sorrow: Attitudes Toward Black Women, 1880-1920, and of course in 1995 she published her groundbreaking anthology, Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought.

Season 1, Episode 4: "Loving Black Women’s Work"- Drs. Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Erica Williams

The Cite Black Women podcast is a periodic program with a simple message: Cite Black Women. We have been producing knowledge since we blessed this earth. We theorize, we innovate, we revolutionize the world. We do not need mediators. We do not need interpreters. It's time to disrupt the canon. It's time to upturn the erasures of history. It's time to give credit where credit is due. This bi-weekly podcast features reflections and conversations about the politics and praxis of acknowledging and centering Black women’s ideas and intellectual contributions inside and outside of the academy through citation. Episodes feature conversations with Black women inside and outside of the academy who are actively engaged in radical citation as praxis, quotes and reflections on Black women's writing, conversations on weathering the storm of citational politics in the academy, decolonizing syllabi and more. For more information about our project follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @citeblackwomen and access our website at citeblackwomencollective.org #CiteBlackWomen

Producer and Host: Christen Smith
Co-producer: Michaela Machicote
Audio Engineer: Lydia Fortuna

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