“Emerging from the belly of the beast: the Third World Women’s Alliance, Print Culture, and Black Internationalism”

• In Event: Celebrating Triple Jeopardy: Radical Print Culture, Third World Feminism, and Social Movements of the 1970s

Abstract

“It is up to the Third World peoples living in the belly of the beast to destroy his ability to reproduce,” argued the Third World Women’s Alliance (TWWA) in their 1971 newspaper, Triple Jeopardy. In their demands to eradicate the beast of white supremacy, they formulated an intersectional praxis based in Black women’s shared subjugated experiences with other women of color through the lens of anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-capitalism, and anti-imperialism. A reading of Triple Jeopardy illuminates the way Black American feminists, without access to travel, used print culture to engage in global politics.

Presenter

• Tiana U. Wilson, Penn State University