Black Women's Studies Association

The Black Women’s Studies Association is a professional organization dedicated to scholars engaged in research about Black women. BWSA is an inclusive, anti-oppressive space that welcomes scholarly contributions about Black transwomen, non-binary people, queer women, and cis-gendered women. This organization is for scholars at all stages of their careers, whether they be undergraduate students, graduate students, independent scholars, adjunct professors, postdoctoral fellows, professors, and scholars with alternative academic careers. BWSA is an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary organization that welcomes various methodological approaches to studying Black women’s experiences, histories, politics, literature, and more.