Grappling with the Fragmentations: Black Feminisms, African Feminisms and the Possibilities of Black Geographies in Canada

This essay engages with the question of Black studies in Canada vis-à-vis African studies. To address this question, I explore the unsatisfactory distinctions I have made between African feminisms and Black feminisms because they dangerously replicate the colonial division of humanity. As such, I focus on the distinction to think through how we can imagine the future of Black studies in Canada. In so doing, I consider correspondences and interactions that I have been engaged in as spaces where challenging thinking happens in ways that negotiate, rethink, and unsettle institutional and disciplinary limits. I ponder the possibility of not thinking singularly about the subject of Black studies and moving toward a space where we can hold sight of our differences.