To Exist is to Resist, livre ebook

This book brings together activists, artists and scholars of colour to show how Black feminism and Afrofeminism are being practiced in Europe today, exploring their differing social positions in various countries, and how they organise and mobilise to imagine a Black feminist Europe.
Deeply aware that they are constructed as 'Others' living in a racialised and hierarchical continent, the contibutors explore gender, class, sexuality and legal status to show that they are both invisible - presumed to be absent from and irrelevant to European societies - and hyper-visible - assumed to be passive and sexualised, angry and irrational.
Through imagining a future outside the neocolonial frames and practices of contemporary Europe, this book explores a variety of critical spaces including motherhood and the home, friendships and intimate relationships, activism and community, and literature, dance and film.

List of Figures

Part I: Introduction

1. Introduction: On the Problems and Possibilities of European Black Feminism and Afrofeminism - Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande

Part II: Resistance, Solidarity and Coalition-Building

2. The Collective Mobilisation of African Women in Athens 'United We Stand' - Viki Zaphiriou-Zarifi

3. Making Space: Black and Womxn of Colour Feminist Activism in Madrid - Nadia Nadesan

4. Those Who Fight For Us Without Us Are Against Us: Afrofeminist Activism in France - Mwasi Collectif

5. Afro Women's Activism in Belgium: Questioning Diversity and Solidarity - Nicole Grégoire and Modi Ntambwe

6. A Black Feminist's Guide to Improper Activism - Claire Heuchan

Part III: Emotions, Affect and Intimate Relations

7. Revisiting the Home as a Site of Freedom and Resistance - Gabriella Beckles-Raymond

8. Uses of Black/African Literature and Afrofeminist Literary Spaces by Women of Colour in French-Speaking Switzerland - Pamela Ohene-Nyako

9. 'Blackness Disrupts My Germanness.' On Embodiment and Questions of Identity and Belonging among Women of Colour in Germany - Johanna Melissa Lukate

10. Love and Affection: The Radical Possibilities of Friendship Between Women of Colour - Ego Ahaiwe Sowinske and Nazmia Jamal

11. Black Pete, Black Motherhood and Womanist Ethics - Lubumbe Van de Velde

12. Warriors and Survivors: The Eartha Kitt Files - Alecia McKenzie

Part IV: Surviving the Academy

13. In the Changing Light; Daring to Be Powerful - Yesim Deveci

14. Cruel Ironies: The Afterlife of Black Womxn's Intervention - Cruel Ironies Collective

15. Creating a Space within the German Academy - Melody Howse

16. A Manifesto for Survival - Sadiah Qureshi

17. At the Margin of Institutional Whiteness: Black Women in Danish Academia - Oda-Kange Midtvage Diallo

18. Africanist Sista-hood in Britain: Creating Our Own Pathways - Chijioke Obasi

Part V: Digital and Creative Labour

19. But Some of Us Are Tired: Black Women's 'Personal Feminist Essays' in the Digital Sphere - Kesiena Boom

20. Coming to Movement: African Diasporic Women in British Dance - Tia-Monique Uzor

21. Through Our Lens: Filming Our Resistance. Does the Future Look Black in Europe? - Dorett Jones

22. When We Heal: Creative Practice as a Means of Activism and Self-Preservation - Stacie CC Graham

Notes on Contributors

Index