#BLM and the New Afrocentrism

CRITICAL ESSAY

Presented at University of Pittsburgh’s Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies Lecture

• Offers insight into BLM’s aim to rebuild Black Liberation Movement through an Afrocentric Black feminist framework
• Pushes against ideas of Afrocentrism tied to Black masculinist traditions
• Explores the implications of BLM’s rhetorics for inventing new versions of ‘the human’