The Introduction

Ain’t I a Woman?

This episode is an exploration of the Black woman’s plea using audio from Kerry Washington’s reenactment of Sojourner Truth’s Ain’t I a Woman, Mikki Kendall’s Hood Feminism, and Maya Angelou’s Phenomenal Woman. This episode cites work from Patricia Hill Collins, bell hooks, and The Combahee River Collective. Join us as we take a liberating ride navigating black women’s plea both past and present.

The Introduction

A welcome to the metamorpho(sis) podcast! A space curated by, Jaleyah Davis, with the intention to highlight, examine, and explore black feminist thought. This introduction uses both lived experience and evidence-based research to identify the ways the supposed seamless web of economy, polity, and ideology function as a highly effective system of social control designed to keep Black women in an assigned, subordinate place. This introduction heavily sites, Patricia Hill Collins, a pioneer in black feminist thought and consciousness stating exerpts from her text Black Feminist Thought.