All posts tagged "June Jordan"
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The Radical Politics of Self-Love and Self-Care
By SooJin Pate When most people think about love, it is usually a feeling that flows outward towards some person or some thing: “I love...
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There is one path and one path only, it is the path towards embodied liberations
By Jessica Horn Editors Note: We were scheduled to post a reflection by Jessica Horn later in this second week of our global forum celebrating...
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The Forging of a Caribbean Feminist Consciousness: Laying Claim to Audre Lorde’s Legacy
By Donna Aza Weir-Soley Mothers are central to our identities. Even those of us who do not claim motherhood as central to how we define...
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Personal is Political: Meaning to Survive
By Lynn Roberts Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. ~ Audre Lorde, A Burst of...
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The difference between poetry…
A Collective Love Poem by The Audre Lorde Project The . difference between poetry and...
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Finding Her Mother’s Gardens: A Review of Pratibha Parmar’s “Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth”
Black women have tended to incredible, secluded gardens within the expansive wasteland of this dysfunctional democracy.–Joy James, from “Resting in the Gardens, Battling in the...
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Assata, Radicalism and Love
By Jessica Horn To meditate on the meaning of Assata Shakur is to meditate on the meaning of a vibrant tradition of revolutionary black women’s...
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Call for Submissions: TFW Love as a Radical Act Forum
Times always seem to be especially trying for those of us committed to transnationally eradicating anti-feminist, racist, and imperialist politics both publicly and privately. Like...
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Feminists We Love: Kaila Adia Story
Kaila Adia Story (Ph.D., African American Studies & Women’s Studies Temple University M.A., African American Studies Temple University; B.A. Women’s Studies DePaul University) is an associate professor...
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Femmes, Pulling the Pieces Together: A Keynote Address by Pratibha Parmar
Last August, award-winning filmmaker Pratibha Parmar delivered a keynote address at FEMME Conference 2012: Pulling the Pieces Together, in Baltimore, Maryland. We are thrilled to...
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The Occupation Stole My Words, June Jordan Helped me to Relocate Them
Dedicated to June Jordan (who still lives among us) My friends had expected retellings of my journey when I arrived back from Israel and the...
