Haddy Jatou Gassama

Haddy Gassama is a Gambian-born writer, who moonlights as a lawyer and immigration policy advocate. While Haddy sometimes writes in her capacity as an immigrants rights advocate, her creative work examines the relationship between white and Western points of view and the lived realities and feminism(s) that are inherent in Black womanhood. Her writing interrogates the role of western ideologies and white feminism in creating harmful narratives about Black women. She writes to shatter these stagnant narratives, which are often devoid of nuance, in hopes of creating new ones that are written from the perspective of a Black woman.