It reminds women that they don't have to settle for less. It's what makes Michelle Obama an icon.Įloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. It's what makes Beyonc 's girl power anthems resonate so hard.

Black women's eloquent rage is what makes Serena Williams such a powerful tennis player. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting.įar too often, Black women's anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. So what if it's true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. I was waiting and she has come in Brittney CooperĬooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today. 'I was waiting for an author who wouldn't forget, ignore, or erase us black girls. There is so much about her analysis that I relate to and grapple with on a daily basis as a Latina feminist.ĭamon Young: Like watching the world's best Baptist preacher but with sermons about intersectionality and Beyonc instead of Ecclesiastes.

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