November 2010
8 posts
So everything came together and so now what I can say, is that it’s what I’m...
– Sharon Bridgeforth from http://themagicmakers.blogspot.com
I knew
whoever the hell ‘my people’
are
I knew that one of them...
– June Jordan, “Poem for Mark” (See you on Wednesdays in December for the Juneteenth Freedom Academy Unit on Love Poems!!!!!)
I want interdependence and community as more than words. In order to do this, I...
– Aurora Levins Morales and Susan Raffo
We find our origins in the historical reality of Afro-American women’s...
– Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977
Intention and Interdependence: Eternal Summer 2011
Loved ones!
This week’s emphasis on vision and purpose (see the Combahee Survival activity here: http://combaheesurvival.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/1-vision-and-purpose/) has me very inspired. After some crucial and helpful conversations with participants in the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind process and some wisdom from elders who are part of the MobileHomecoming ...