About this Event
Join us for the Black Women Taught Us Book Chat with Jenn M. Jackson, PhD at Resist Booksellers on Saturday, March 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM (Eastern Time).
Jenn M. Jackson, PhD will be in conversation with author Ravynn K. Stringfield.
Get ready to dive into a conversation about reclaiming history, and hope for a better political future! Mark your calendars and we'll see you there!
*Tickets include the price of the book.
About The Book:
This is my offering. My love letter to them, and to us.
A professor of political science and columnist for Teen Vogue, Jenn M. Jackson, PhD, has been known to bring historical acuity to some of the most controversial topics in America today. Now, in their first book, Jackson applies their critical analysis to the questions that have long energized their work: Why has Black women’s freedom fighting been so overlooked throughout history, and what has our society lost because of our refusal to engage with our forestrugglers’ lessons?
A love letter to those who have been minimized and forgotten, this collection repositions Black women’s intellectual and political work at the center of today’s liberation movements.
Across eleven original essays that explore the legacy of Black women writers and leaders—from Harriet Jacobs and Ida B. Wells to the Combahee River Collective and Audre Lorde—Jackson sets the record straight about Black women’s longtime movement organizing, theorizing, and coalition building in the name of racial, gender, and sexual justice in the United States and abroad. These essays show, in both critical and deeply personal terms, how Black women have been at the center of modern liberation movements despite the erasure and misrecognition of their efforts. Jackson illustrates how Black women have frequently done the work of liberation at great risk to their lives and livelihoods.
For a new generation of movement organizers and costrugglers, Black Women Taught Us serves as a reminder that Black women were the first ones to teach us how to fight racism, how to name that fight, and how to imagine a more just world for everyone.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Resist Booksellers Bookstore, 233 North Sycamore Street, Petersburg, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 23.18
