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Can’t/ Don’t/Stop
Can’t/Don’t/Stop: Black Dance in America for Bert Williams, Aida “Queen of the Cakewalk” Overton Walker and George Walker you don’t see the stretch you see the strut you see the lean but you don’t...
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it’s like this: an interview with Doris Davenport
Doris Davenport where I first met her, at the Alternate Roots gathering for southern artists. Doris Davenport’s first revolutionary impact on me was her smile. And I have told her so. In fact the...
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Laboring Positions: Black Women, Mothering and the Academy (A conversation...
Sekile Nzinga-Johnson is a BADDDDD sista in the Sonia Sanchez sense. She is a mother, educator, scholar, ruler of the roller derby scene as Malice Walker AND the editor of the powerful recent...
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Love Poem Legacies: Activating Collective Erotic Power in the Name of the Lorde
copyright Dagmar Schultz Sometimes it comes down to the pronouns. When Audre Lorde first tried to publish “Love Poem” in her 1973 collection From a Land Where Other People Live, her editor Dudley...
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One Thing: Toni Cade Bambara in the Speaking Everyday
Kai Barrow’s cultural work Toni Cade Bambara is a life saver. Expert on Black women’s creative and spiritual practice, Akasha Gloria Hull says that Bambara’s enduring work The Salteaters induces and...
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“Dangerous girl. The dream of my life.”: Nadia Abou-Karr’s The Iconoclast:...
by Nadia Abou-Karr Right now I am growing more dangerous. I am growing into a woman who expresses her needs. I am not expressing my needs to make other people feel necessary. I am not expressing my...
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Dismantle: Let Me Break It Down
A Review of Dismantle: An Anthology of Writing from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop ed. Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela (Philadelphia: Thread Makes Blanket Press 2014) The first anthology of creative...
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a spell to save your life
By alexis pauline gumbs after Toni Cade Bambara “Exhale” collage ©Alexis Pauline GumbsPhotograph of Toni Cade Bambara ©Susan Ross 1. eat salt not that ocean drowning snack to stop thinking about dying...
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One Thing: Toni Cade Bambara in the Speaking Everyday
Editors’ Note: Since this is a special forum celebrating the life, work, and legacy of Toni Cade Bambara, one of our ancestor heroines, TFW made the editorial decision to republish the slightly revised...
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Black Lives and Dark Matter: Calculating Possibility
A Review of Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA By Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris JD, PhD I’m a black feminist mystic. It is not rare to hear me talking about the stars as our...
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