Black diaspora feminism and writing: memories, storytelling, and the narrative world as sites of resistance

In this feminist anti-colonial cultural project, I will explore critical writings by Black diaspora women writers, to understand how language and the narrative world are used as a political tool to generate agency for the subjugated. I am interested in examining how Black diaspora women writers deploy storytelling, critical theorizing, and remembrance practices to comprehend, resist, transform, and heal from patriarchy, racism, colonization, and the history of slavery, to explore uncharted journeys. Writing, language, and the spoken words are creative, political, and intellectual weapons that Black diaspora women use to fight back against their assumed and constructed invisibility, powerlessness, and voicelessness. I argue that far from silent, Black diaspora women have spoken in tongue, drum and chant to create a reality that has yet to exist – a world of egalitarian possibilities.