To exist is to resist : black feminism in Europe / edited by Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande

Includes bibliographical references and index

Cover; Contents; 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 -- Cyn Awori Othieno and Annette Davis on behalf of Mwasi Collectif

5. Afro Women's Activism in Belgium: Questioning Diversity and Solidarity -- Nicole Gregoire and Modi Ntambwe; 6. A Black Feminist's Guide to Improper Activism -- Claire Heuchan; Part III: Emotion, 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 Lukate10. Love & 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 Collective15. Creating a Space Within the Germany Academy -- Melody Howse; 16. A Manifesto for Survival -- Sadiah Qureshi; 17. At the Margins 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 Uzor21. 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

This title 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