No guarantees: Symposium onBlack Feminist Thought

In this article, I describe four main ideas of Black Feminist Thought as well as the social and intellectual context that influenced how and why I wrote the book. Building on this foundation, I explore how the articles in the Symposium both connect with these key ideas as well as point to ongoing challenges for black feminism. Because there are no guarantees that Black feminism will persist, the richness of the different ways that these contemporary scholars read Black Feminist Thought provides important guidance for similar knowledge projects that are placed in service to social justice.