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‘the branch on which I sit’: reflections on black British feminism

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Notes

  1. University College Union (UCU) (2013) ‘The Position of Women and BME Staff in Professorial Roles in UK HEIs’, http://www.ucu.org.uk/bmewomenreport, last accessed 22 July 2014.

  2. See ‘About us: Definitions’, http://www.blackfeminists.org/about-us/, last accessed 22 July 2014.

  3. This and other comments were made by young black women at black feminist workshops held at Goldsmith’s College, University of London. A series of events were organised by Joan Anim-Addo, Director of the Centre for Caribbean Studies, including ‘Black British Feminism then and now’, 22 October 2011, and ‘We are here: Black feminism residential weekend’, 26–28 October 2012.

  4. Blackfem.org, ‘Black feminists discuss intersectionality’, 13 December 2013, http://www.blackfeminists.org/2013/12/13/news-black-feminists-discuss-intersectionality-video/October, last accessed 22 July 2014.

  5. Imkaan is a UK-based, black feminist organisation dedicated to addressing VAW and girls http://imkaan.org.uk/, last accessed 22 July 2014. WLUML is Women Living Under Muslim Laws http://www.wluml.org/node/5408, last accessed 22 July 2014.

  6. LGBTQ stands for ‘lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer’.

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Mirza, H., Gunaratnam, Y. ‘the branch on which I sit’: reflections on black British feminism. Fem Rev 108, 125–133 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1057/fr.2014.13

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