· A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone Amistad Minna Salami's book Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone (Amistad/HarperCollins, ) is a collection of thought provoking essays that explore questions central to how we see ourselves, our history, and our world. The creator of the internationally popular, multiple award-winning blog MsAfropolitan applies an Africa-centered feminist sensibility to issues of racism and sexism, challenging our illusions about oppression and liberation and daring women to embrace their bltadwin.ruus Knowledge is a collection of thought provoking essays that explore questions central to how we see ourselves, our history. · "Sensuous Knowledge is a probing, challenging and imaginative book that dares position black feminism as the prism through which we can better experience and understand the world. I savored it as intellectual soul food, while relishing the richness of Minna Salami's ideas and the persuasiveness of her bltadwin.ru: HarperCollins Publishers.
In Sensuous Knowledge, Minna Salami draws on Africa-centric, feminist-first and artistic traditions to help us rediscover inclusive and invigorating ways of experiencing the world afresh. Combining the playfulness of a storyteller with the insight of a social critic, the book pries apart the systems of power and privil. Sensuous Knowledge inspires reflection and challenge us to formulate or own views. Using ancestral knowledge to steer us toward freedom, Salami reveals the ways that women have protested over the years in large and small ways—models that inspire and empower us to define our own sense of womanhood today. Minna Salami is a Nigerian, Finnish and Swedish writer, feminist theorist and the author of the internationally acclaimed book Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone (). Translated into several languages, Sensuous Knowledge has been called "intellectual soul food" (Bernardine Evaristo), "vital" (Chris Abani) and a "metaphysical journey into the genius the West.
Inclusive, rigorous in process and thought, Minna Salami has created a strong and important testament for now and the future. Chris Abani "Sensuous Knowledge is a probing, challenging and imaginative book that dares position black feminism as the prism through which we can better experience and understand the world. I savored it as intellectual soul food, while relishing the richness of Minna Salami's ideas and the persuasiveness of her writing. Inspiring and empowering, Sensuous Knowledge is the nourishing, intellectual soul food that touches every iota of being. Minna Salami takes us through art, history, blackness, beauty - everything under the sun, through a feminist lens. Her perspective incorporates indigenous knowledge in ways that are unique and holistic. The creator of the internationally popular, multiple award-winning blog MsAfropolitan applies an Africa-centered feminist sensibility to issues of racism and sexism, challenging our illusions about oppression and liberation and daring women to embrace their bltadwin.ruus Knowledge is a collection of thought provoking essays that explore questions central to how we see ourselves, our history.
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