About this Event
Based upon your guys recommendations of authors for us to read, we have chosen a chapter from the owned black activist, author and social theorist Angela Davis. For those of you who are new to this text and Davis’s writing, she explores the ways that gender, race and class intersect, from an anti-capitalist standpoint.
Writing from the 70s and into the 80s, Davis has been influential in writing about how black women have been excluded from the mainstream social movements from slavery onwards, such as the abolitionist movement, first and second wave feminism, and even anti-capitalist workers movements.
‘Racism, Birth Control and Reproductive Rights’ is an intriguing chapter to discuss because despite being written about reproductive rights as far back as the 1980s, many of Davis’s points still apply.
