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Black Feminism Informed by “Sensuous Knowledge”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
11 Jan 2021
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Margaret Kimberley · Black Feminism Informed by “Sensuous Knowledge”

Because of historical exclusion, “Black women’s social and political desires have always had to be shaped outside of the dogmatic and the normative – inside of the liminal, the fugitive and the imaginative.” said Minna Salami, the Nigierian-, Finnish- and Swedish-descended author of “Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone.” Salami said this is especially true of iconic intellects Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Winnie Mandela.

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