November 2009
16 posts
Get your copy of the Eternal Summer of the Black... →
@yoloBdatboy Soul Brother Droppin' Knowledge:... →
“Racism, classism and homophobia are real and we can name them and talk about...”
– Leah Newbold “On Class, Punk, Organizing and Anti-Affluence Activism” in Shotgun Seamstress 3
Soul Brother Darnell on the Writing, the South and... →
“We knew better. We had been Black children. And each of us had given birth to...”
– June Jordan in “For Audre” a tribute
Ayanah Moor Rocks! →
“I read her for bright in grey days.”
– what Audre Lorde said about the poet Rikki Lights and what I say about you.
Lex on Radical Women of Color Blogging →
dedicated to you. because I love you!
“A woman born to teaching wakes in the morning desperate to be near her pupils. ...”
– Fern Elston (free colored antebellum teacher in Edward P. Jones The Known World)
“why do these poisons come
that eat away our writing mothers?”
– from Letters to Gloria by Noemi Martinez
“You could be 15
You could be 15 on a school day
You could be sitting in a...”
– Alexis De Veaux from “Modern Day Living is Hard on Black Women” in Blue Heat
“CONTINUITY. The will to survive. Believe in the unseen. Sheer and delicate....”
– Alexis DeVeaux, Introduction to Gaptooth Girlfriends: The Third Act
“When we speak and write it, we become the history of who we KNOW we are. In...”
– Alexis DeVeaux, PhD Dissertation, end of first chapter “Concealed Weapons: Contemporary Black Women’s Short Stories as Social Change Agents 1960’s to the Present”
“We…chose our name because the kitchen is the center of the home, the place...”
– Barbara Smith “A Press of Our Own: Kitchen Table Women of Color Press” 1989
“I could not earn a living from my work for Kitchen Table, nor from my writing,...”
– Barbara Smith, Introduction The Truth that Never Hurts
“We feel that it is absolutely essential to demonstrate the reality of our...”
– Combahee River Collective, 1977 