This discussion moves briefly back in time to the nineteenth century and forward

to the twenty‐first century to capture various articulations of Black feminist thinking

over this arc of change. Into the twenty‐first century queer, gender‐nonconforming,
and Black trans feminists are central to today’s Black feminist articulations. These
expressions of Black feminism draw upon the ideas found in earlier Black feminist
articulations, and today this work is reflected in the radical Black queer feminism of
members of Black Lives Matter and BYP100 (Black Youth Project 100; Ransby
2019). The idea, as Ransby articulates, is to make all Black lives matter.
The essay juxtaposes a discussion of Black feminism with Womanism. These are
interrelated but distinct expressions of the struggle for gender justice in Black women’s
lives