Solidarity with Palestine: A Reading List From Black Women Radicals

Screenshot from the Black Women Writers & Palestine event on Oct. 12 offered by Black Women Radicals.

On Sunday, October 12, I listened to an esteemed group of Black feminist writers discuss how they live their mandate for solidarity with Palestine. As I have so often before, I learned so much from these people who have made entire lives of acting on oppression—and who know (deeply, painfully) what it means to fight for the rights of human beings to live fully.

The conversation itself fully is worthwhile; I've listened twice. Memorable: Angela Davis recounting that Nelson Mandela said, "South Africa will never be truly free until Palestine is free."

The organizers, Black Women Radicals, also put together a reading list. It's more of an immersion experience, a cross-media anthology, an archive. It brings history, context, and nuance to the relationship between Israel and Palestine, while maintaining the understanding that everyone's liberation "is tethered to the liberation, freedom, and emancipation of all marginalized peoples around the world." 

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Screenshot of some of the Black feminist who wrote their perspectives on Palestine in this reading list