Charlene A. Carruthers Cooks Up a More Complete Story of Black Radical Imagination
About this episode
Charlene A. Carruthers discusses her work on Black radical imagination and community organizing.
Charlene A. Carruthers, PhD (she/her) is a writer, filmmaker, community organizer, and Black Studies scholar. A practitioner of telling more complete stories, her work interrogates historical conjunctures of Black freedom-making post-emancipation and decolonial revolution, Black/Native/Indigenous relationalities, Black governance, and Black feminist abolitionist geographies. She is a 2020 Marguerite Casey Presidential Freedom Scholar and Mellon Interdisciplinary Cluster Fellow in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her work spans more than 15 years of community organizing across racial, gender and economic justice movements. Charlene wrote and directed The Funnel, a short film, which received the Queer Black Voices Award at the 35th Annual aGLIFF Prism Film Festival. As the founding national director of BYP100 (Black Youth Project 100), she worked alongside hundreds of young Black activists to build a member-led organization dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. Her work has been covered in several publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Chicago Reader, The Nation, Ebony and Essence Magazines. She has appeared on CNN, Democracy Now…
People in this episode
Host: Angela Denise Davis
Guest: Charlene A. Carruthers
Topics covered
- Black Radical Imagination
- Community Organizing
- Black Feminism
- Decolonial Revolution
- Racial Justice
- Gender Justice
Keywords
- Black Studies
- freedom-making
- abolitionist geographies
- community organizing
- Black governance
- decolonial revolution
- racial justice
- gender justice
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: BYP100, New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Reader, The Nation, Ebony, Essence Magazines, CNN, Democracy Now!, BBC
Books & works: The Funnel
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