Black Women and COVID-19: Normalized Sacrifice
Jade Almeida
In this video, Jade Almeida is a Black woman that presents in front of a bright white wall. Almeida has on black glasses, long dangle earrings, a bright silver necklace, and a black shirt with dark red patterns.
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Black Women and COVID-19: Normalized Sacrifice
with Jade Almeida
Jade Almeida is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Université de Montréal and a Black feminist scholar with a focus on Black women who love women.
In this video
Themes
Intersectionality
Anti-Black racism
In this video, Jade centers racial disparities during COVID-19 to highlight how the global “care-work” by Black woman has been historically racialized and exploited. Ultimately, she debunks the trope of Black female “resilience” and “servility” – calling for state, organizational and individual accountabilities to upholding the rights and security of Black women in the workplace, research inquiry and community work.
Taking action
Donate to and get involved in organization that support Black, Queer, Trans and migrant populations
A long-term solution is to do your research on how academic institutions normalize the invisibility of Black communities
Embrace feminists, Indigenous, Black, and racialized theorists, then consciously cite them
Resources
Patricia Hill Collins book “Black Feminist Thought”
Robyn Maynard “Policing Black Lives”
Rose-Myrlie Joseph “the Invisibility of Haitian Maids”, then all her other articles and YouTube account
Evelyn Nakano Glen’s article “Forced to Care”
Dionne Brand’s book “No Burden to Carry”