Black Women
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Exposing the Invisible Betrayal: Removing the Gag from Our Mouths and Speaking of the Police Rapes of Black Women
Farah Tanis: Tell me what freedom fighter, what human rights defender has ever had to ask—can I stand up? With or without your permission I’m...
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Personal is Political: Reflections on Toni Cade Bambara
S. E. Anderson and Rosemari Mealy: Hearing Toni’s voice in her poetry presentations was both serious-determined with a jazzy lyrical flava. I strongly believe Sista...
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Toni Cade Bambara—A Member of My Small Village
Sarah C. Poindexter: Your impact transcending my small village to persons near and wide—a whole world of people had read your books, watched your films,...
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The Authenticating Audience
Louis Massiah: On the contrary, when art is understood as a mode of political work, with the explicit goal of communicating a needed counter-narrative or...
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The Good Death of Toni Cade Bambara
Clyde Taylor: Watching the Sisters lead this hip-rumbling, drum-based ritual I wondered, “Say hello to the Sisters of the Good Death for me.” But how...
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Laughing on the Other Side of the Mountain: A Love Letter to My Friend Toni Cade Bambara
Ayoka Chenzira: We were more excited to see each other than to hear what was being said to us by industry leaders whose real job...
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Love Note for Toni Cade Bambara
Zeinabu irene Davis: I still feel you with me when I am watching films in the dark. I will always remember how I would watch...
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Photographs of Toni Cade Bambara & Friends
Photo griot Susan J. Ross shares photographs of Toni Cade Bambara and her friends during this forum celebration.
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Re-Membering Audre Lorde and Celebrating Toni Cade Bambara
Aishah Shahidah Simmons: Was it coincidence or karmic symmetry that the first day of our celebration in honor of Bambara falls on the twenty-second anniversary...
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Personal is Political: Toni Cade Bambara
Paula J. Giddings: The relevance of the to-do list, nearly a half-century later is remarkable; the sensibility definitely our own; and the attitude shaped the...
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Personal is Political: bell hooks Remembers Toni Cade Bambara
Toni Cade Bambara was a central and important figure in the development of my political conscience, because she was by far one of the most...
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“Not All Speed Is Movement”: Toni Cade Bambara and the Black Feminist Tradition
I always honor the multivocal, intellectual shoulders on which I stand. And I ask my students to always do the same. While I have begun...
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Changing the Letter: TFW Celebrates Toni Cade Bambara
And sister Toni’s influences are not merely theoretical. They are lived. The Feminist Wire prides itself in modeling the scholar/activist spirit of our feminist ancestors....
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Mother of the Movement: Remembering Bambara and the “African Bones in the Briny Deep”
Chadra Pittman Walke: I began what would become my life’s work with ancestors eighteen years ago at the NYABG. I witnessed daily the profound connection...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A Litany for Jada and Janay: In the Spirit of the Lorde
By Cinnamon Williams What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun....
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Slavery: the Haunting Legacy of Sterilization Abuse in California State Prisons
By Tala Khanmalek Last year the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) announced that nearly 150 female prisoners in California were sterilized without consent from 2006 to...
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The Feminist Wire Celebrates Writer Toni Cade Bambara’s Life and Legacy In An Upcoming 75th Birthday Anniversary Forum
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE www.thefeministwire.com Curators/Editors: Heidi R. Lewis, Ph.D., and Aishah Shahidah Simmons The Feminist Wire (TFW) will host a ground breaking two-week...
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Don’t Get Caught Sleeping: Male Desire of Unconscious Women
We all argued and it was mostly about their insistence that I had called my godbrother a rapist. They made the most compelling arguments about...
