Black, Lesbian, Womanist

      ‎”Black women have a history of the use and sharing of power from the Amazon legions of Dahomey through the Ashanti warrior queen Yaa Asantewaa and the freedom fighter Harriet Tubman, to the economically powerful market-women guilds of present West Africa. We have a tradition of closeness and mutual care and support, from the all-woman courts of the Queen Mothers of Benin to the present-day Sisterhood of the Good Death, a community of old women in Brazil who escaped slaves ,provided escape and refuge for other enslaved women, and who now care for each other.