Example Sentences

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A week focused on “The Black feminist movement, womanism and intersectionality,” in a draft dated February 2022, had morphed in the final version to “Black women’s voices in society and leadership.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023

Bass, who “grounded herself in womanism and revolution,” is now trying to “out-Caruso Caruso and out-Buscaino Buscaino,” they said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2022

Rihanna’s 2016 hit “Needed Me” is a master class in coldblooded womanism whose chorus culminates with her singing “Didn’t they tell you that I was a savage?”

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2018

One of the few exceptions, and by default the leading champion for the cause of country womanism, is Miranda Lambert.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2014

What Walker has defined as "womanism" caused an uproar in many corners of the African-American establishment, full of indignance at what was judged her "negative imagery" of the black male, the black family.

From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2013