‘Saluting Our Sisters’ hosted by Doctoral Researchers Siza Dube and Lizzie Bowes

To commemorate this year’s Black History Month theme, ‘Saluting our Sisters’, Siza Dube and Lizze Bowes took the opportunity to bring together Black women in and outside of the academy and facilitated a rich discussion about honouring Black women predecessors. The event responded to the challenges that come with intersectional identities and the urgent need to address inequalities, such as those pertaining to gender, class and race in the spaces we occupy. 

The panel consisted of three speakers;

– Dr Josie Gill is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Bristol. Her research explores the intersections between contemporary literature, science, and race.

– Nasra Ayub is a TEDx speaker, freelance journalist with notable by-lines in Stylist, Dazed, Metro UK, i paper, and gal-dem, and Diana Award 2020 winner for her outstanding contributions to human rights activism.

– Stacey Olika is a host, digital artist, content creator and diversity and inclusion consultant. Stacey is currently serving as the Creative Diversity Coordinator at Channel 4.

 

References

Beal, Frances,‘ Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female’, in The Black Woman: An Anthology, ed. by Toni Cade Bambara (New York: Washington Square Press, 2005), pp. 109-22  

Davis,  Angela, ‘Black Women and the Academy’, Callaloo, 17.2 (1994), 422-431

Davis, Angela, Women, Race and Class, Penguin Modern Classics (London: Penguin Books, 2019)

hooks, bell, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, Second edition (New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015)

Lorde, Audre, Poetry Is Not a Luxury in The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House, (London: Penguin Books, 2018)