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The second issue of Moya engages one of the lively debates of our time: can identity politics liberate the oppressed? By employing an explicitly transnational lens, Danielle Bowler has gone to the source of the term identity politics. Coined by the members of the Combahee River Collective in the early 1970s, the concept represented a radical approach to making sense of interlocking oppressions. Since then, the term has become hotly contested across the political spectrum, and its meanings and political applications remain often obscured. Bowler’s piece offers both an understanding of Barbara Smith’s original intentions and her reflections on the current life of this idea in the world.
The second issue of Moya engages one of the lively debates of our time: can identity politics liberate the oppressed? By employing an explicitly transnational lens, Danielle Bowler has gone to the source of the term identity politics. Coined by the members of the Combahee River Collective in the early 1970s, Read More...
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Identity Politics: Returning to the Source
A member of the Combahee River Collective—the Black, lesbian, feminist, socialist movement that conceptualised identity politics—Barbara Smith was born into struggle, a position from which she chose to create, organise and liberate herself and others. And now, at 75, the publisher, author and educator shows little desire to stop, writes Danielle Bowler.
In this feature, Smith and Bowler invite us into an intergenerational and transnational dialogue on race, sexuality, gender, and class in the United States, South Africa and beyond. They ask us to imagine, drawing on the work of the Collective, organising and politics that could be truly emancipatory. Read more.
In this feature, Smith and Bowler invite us into an intergenerational and transnational dialogue on race, sexuality, gender, and class in the United States, South Africa and beyond. They ask us to imagine, drawing on the work of the Collective, organising and politics that could be truly emancipatory. Read more.
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Video: Black Futures
In October 2021, we hosted a panel discussion, in partnership with the Atlantic Institute, to launch Moya.
Focused on Black futures, the event featured two contributors to the first issue—Johannesburg-based Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity Alex Fitzgerald, and Jamaican-American writer Alistair Scott—alongside London-based cultural commentator Jason Okundaye, and Nairobi’s Saida Ali, an activist and Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity.
The discussion kicked off with this question from Saida, our facilitator: What Black futures do you envision? Watch here.
Focused on Black futures, the event featured two contributors to the first issue—Johannesburg-based Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity Alex Fitzgerald, and Jamaican-American writer Alistair Scott—alongside London-based cultural commentator Jason Okundaye, and Nairobi’s Saida Ali, an activist and Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity.
The discussion kicked off with this question from Saida, our facilitator: What Black futures do you envision? Watch here.
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