Kitchen Table History

Kitchen Table History

research post 2025-10-10

“...personally, I find utopias ridiculous.” Butler

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Jessica Marie Johnson
Oct 10, 2025
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Reads

  • Alexis P. Gumbs, M/Other Ourselves: A Black Queer Feminist Genealogy for Radical Mothering, ed. China Martens et al. (PM Press, 2016)

  • Sylviane Diouf, Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons (New York University Press, 2016)

  • Ntozake Shange, Nappy Edges, with Internet Archive (New York : St. Martin’s Press, 1978), http://archive.org/details/nappyedges00shan

  • Consuela Francis, Conversations with Octavia Butler (University Press of Mississippi, 2013),

  • Kali Gross, Vengeance Feminism: The Power of Black Women’s Fury in Lawless Times (Seal Press, 2024),

  • Vanessa K. Valdés, “‘ There Is No Incongruence Here’: Hispanic Notes in the Works of Ntozake Shange,” CLA Journal 53, no. 2 (2009): 131–44

  • “‘Walkin on the Edges of the Galaxy’: Queer Choreopoetic Thought in the African Diaspora,” The Scholar & Feminist Online, May 24, 2015, https://sfonline.barnard.edu/walkin-on-the-edges-of-the-galaxy-queer-choreopoetic-thought-in-the-african-diaspora/

  • Cassia Roth and Robson Pedrosa Costa, “‘Maria Simoa, Who Birthed Twenty-Four Children’: Slavery, Motherhood, and Freedom on the Benedictine Estates, Pernambuco, Brazil, 1866–1871,” Hispanic American Historical Review 103, no. 1 (2023): 65–99, https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-10216469.

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Projects

  • Congo Square Connection by Freddi Evans: https://congosquareconnection.org/

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Vibes & Affirmations

We shall aspire to be as cunty as the women on the mothership

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We shall aspire to be as smooth as our kinfolk steppin in Chicago

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We shall speak the truth

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We shall be tender

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We shall stan

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We shall stay Black

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We shall bow down

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