Guest Speaker: Ali Mushtaq

Ali Mushtaq talked to us about how Womanism centered community knowledge and ways of knowing. He talked about how important intersectionality is and how it led to the creation of womanism. He put more of a focus on black feminists and how they are typically not represented in the feminist community. He put an emphasis on intersectionality since people have jus

t started to talk about it in the past 5 years.

He defined Womanism as a feminist philosophy developed through the experiences of black women. It is more about the collective in the community instead of the individual. Come together as a community to resist a problem, which allows them to combat colonialism. He stated that there are 3 key concepts with Womanism: community connectedness, empowerment, and spirituality. He said that Womanism is “combatting all social oppression, disidentification of feminism, spirituality, emotions and knowledge.”