Keisha N. Blain

Fury and Disrepute: Black Women’s Feminism in Lawless Times

We rarely read stories about unrespectable women. When we do, they are often white, middle class, heterosexual, and cisgender. Unrespectable

In the early summer of 2025, the nation became aware of the story of Adriana Smith, a Black woman from

Vengeance Feminism is a bold and timely Black feminist reading of Black women’s enactments of violence in the archives of

Black women’s history is filled with examples of individual women—and the organizations they helped to create—fighting back against a host

Kali Nicole Gross’s Vengeance Feminism: The Power of Black Women’s Fury in Lawless Times opens with the story of how