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🌹 Ladies, Femmes & Thems Reading Group: Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis
Political Education Committee
June 10, 2025
The Ladies, Femmes & Thems Reading Group invites other Ladies, Femmes & Thems to join us in a biweekly discussion of the full Women, Race, and Class text from cover to cover. In our group, we will unpack, learn, and critique this early classic in intersectional feminist literature through a socialist and anti-capitalist lens.
LFT will meet every other Tuesday, 6:30-8:00 at the EBDSA Office with Zoom options.
Ahead of her peers, Angela Davis pioneers in her analyses of slavery, womanhood, the co-optation of feminism by whiteness, liberation in the words and minds of Black women, sexual and racial violence and other topics. Women, Race, and Class gathers her essays into a single text. Many of us are already familiar with some of these essays. Most of us are familiar with Comrade Davis’ influential lore.
Conjoined analysis of race and gender are not distractions from socialist work; they are essential to it. To deny one’s self a full understanding of how intertwined class struggle is with race, gender and sexuality, is keep yourself intellectually circling the drain.
The book is organized into 13 essays, which we’ll be discussing over 13 meetings. So if you aren’t available for every meeting, or if you’re late joining, you can still come!
- 06/10: The Legacy of Slavery: Standards for a New Womanhood
- 06/24: The Anti-Slavery Movement and the Birth of Women's Rights
- 07/08: Class and Race in the Early Women's Rights Campaign
- 07/22: Racism in the Woman Suffrage Movement
- 08/05: The Meaning of Emancipation According to Black Women
- 08/19: Education and Liberation: Black Women's Perspective
- 09/02: Woman Suffrage at the Turn of the Century: The Rising Influence of Racism
- 09/16: Black Women and the Club Movement
- 09/30: Working Women, Black Women and the History of the Suffrage Movement
- 10/14: Communist Women
- 10/28: Rape, Racism and the Myth of the Black Rapist
- 11/11: Racism, Birth Control and Reproductive Rights
- 11/25: The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective Notes
This is a hybrid event: zoom link
Free parking on 17th & Alice, Jackson. Do not park in the parking lot at risk of being towed
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When:
June 10, 2025,
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Where:
EBDSA Office -
1610 Harrison St, Oakland, CA, 94612
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