Fire Dreams - Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South

For 35 years, the New Orleans-based Black feminist collective Women With A Vision (WWAV) has fought for the liberation of their communities through reproductive justice, harm reduction, abolition feminism, racial justice, and sex workers rights. In 2012, shortly after one of their biggest organizing victories, arsonists firebombed and destroyed their headquarters. Fire Dreams is an innovative collaboration between WWAV and Laura McTighe, who work in community to build a social movement ethnography of the organization’s post-arson rebirth. Rooting WWAV in the geography of the South and the living history of generations of Black feminist thinkers, McTighe and WWAV weave together stories from their founders’ pioneering work during the Black HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s and their groundbreaking organizing to end criminalization in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina with other movements for liberation around the globe. Together, they refuse the logics of racial capitalism and share WWAV’s own world-building knowledges as well as their methods for living these Black feminist futures now. Fire Dreams is a vital toolkit for grassroots organizers, activist-scholars, and all those who dream to make the world otherwise.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2024
First published:	2024
Authors:	Laura McTighe • Women With A Vision
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Pages:	344
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-2080-6
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-4780-2080-6
Barcode:	9781478020806

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