Towards an Afro-Atlantic Feminism: Contributions from the Anglophone Caribbean to British Black Feminism and possible bridges with Brazilian Black Feminism

Inspired by Lelia Gonzalez's call "for an afro-latin-american feminism" and based on a perception of the Atlantic Ocean as a site of memory and resistance for the Black Diaspora, this paper seeks to contribute to the developing of an Afro-Atlantic Feminist framework. From a historical perspective, its focus is to understand how Black Feminists have framed the issues of slavery and colonisation, and their impacts on societies as a whole and on Black Women's struggles in particular. It proposes a comparison between how Black Brazilian female intellectuals and Black Feminists from the Caribbean who lived and acted politically in the UK have approached the issues of slavery and colonisation in their works. That will be acomplished through bibliographic research and comparative analysis of selected Black Feminist political writings, aiming the development of an analytical synthesis . Black feminist thought has only recently begun to receive sustained attention in Brazilian academia, yet intellectuals such as Lélia Gonzalez, Sueli Carneiro, and Beatriz Nascimento have become indispensable references for complexifying interpretations of Brazilian social formation. These contributions are also crucial for developing a critical, counter-colonial interpretation of colonialism and the African diaspora in the Atlantic world. Similarly, Black feminism in England — one of history’s most powerful imperial states — was built by women whose lives were often directly shaped by Britain’s colonial history, particularly in the Caribbean. Activits such as Claudia Jones and Altheia Jones-LeCointe, both from Trinidad, and Olive Morris, from Jamaica, helped build the Black women’s movement in England, challenging the fraught relationship between the imperial state and the populations under its rule. Black Feminisms have traditionally pursued transnational politics, preserving autonomy while building solidarity. The comparative analysis proposed in this paper could contribute to convergences between different contexts, leading to the development of an Afro-Atlantic Feminist framework.