Black Feminist Symposium

The Black Feminist Symposium is dedicated to celebrating Black feminist thought, scholarship, and activism both at UC and in the community. Each year, the event offers a rich array of voices through a full day of speakers, panels, workshops, and networking led by students, staff, and faculty, as well as community members from Greater Cincinnati and wider region.

This year’s theme, Seeds of Change: A Black Feminist Vision for a Free Future, asks us to envision that imaginative future. If we traveled back through time to gather seeds from our ancestors, what wisdom would we have to imagine and build a future where Black women and gender non-conforming people are truly free? In Pleasure Activism, author and activist adrienne maree brown wrote, “Our radical imagination is a tool for decolonization, for reclaiming our right to shape our lived reality.” Still, brown also felt at times “trapped inside someone else's capability. I often feel I am trapped inside someone' else's imagination, and I must engage my own imagination in order to break free.” For our own well-being and growth as Black women and gender non-conforming people - and for our future - we must break out of the box of what we know and how we have done things and use our collective imagination to reconfigure our future without bounds.

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