- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxiii, 326 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Alternative Title
- Making Black feminist liberation in the South
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Born in Flames -- Front Porch Strategy -- Doing the Work -- We Spoke Our Truths -- Working with Fire -- The Grounds -- Forward Ever.
- ISBN
- 9781478025542
- 1478025549
- 9781478020806
- 1478020806
- 9781478027690 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023014911
- OCLC
- YBP 2023014911
- Author
McTighe, Laura, 1978- author.
- Title
Fire dreams : making Black feminist liberation in the South / Laura McTighe, with Women With A Vision ; foreword by Deon Haywood.
- Publisher
Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.
- Copyright Date
©2024
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
Haywood, Deon, writer of foreword.
Women With A Vision (Non-profit organization : New Orleans, Louisiana), author.
- Other Form:
Online version: McTighe, Laura, 1978- Fire dreams Durham : Duke University Press, 2024 9781478027690 (DLC) 2023014912