Gabrielle Goliath, Beloved (Angela), 2024, oil stick & chalk pastel on paper, 101cm x 70.5cm
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Angela Davis, feminist, activist, philosopher and writer
“Black women were equal to their men in the oppression they suffered; they were their men's social equals within the slave community; and they resisted slavery with a passion equal to their men's. This was one of the greatest ironies of the slave system, for in subjecting women to the most ruthless exploitation conceivable, exploitation which knew no sex distinctions, the groundwork was created not only for Black women to assert their equality through social relations, but also to express it through their acts of resistance.”
Women, Race and Class, 1981