All posts tagged "Toni Cade Bambara"
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Becoming Each Other’s Harvest
Let us envision a society that does not empower the carceral state to intervene in the affairs of our families and communities, but instead builds...
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How I Built Community While Researching Accountability
I knew then that if following that truth was healing her and kept bringing her back to this honorable work, that indeed we were no...
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“Naming Our Destiny”: Afterword to The Feminist Wire’s Forum on June Jordan
This online gathering represents a tiny sampling of all those whose lives have been influenced, impacted, ignited, and inspired by June Jordan’s relentless and fiercely...
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A Series of (Un)related Events: Forty-Five Years After The Black Woman: an Anthology* by Marquis Bey
A Series of (Un)related Events: Forty-Five Years After The Black Woman: an Anthology* Marquis Bey It starts without context. Cast as insane, volatile,...
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Black Women’s Lives Don’t Matter in Academia Either, or Why I Quit Academic Spaces that Don’t Value Black Women’s Life and Labor
On May 14, 2015 I resigned from my job as a part-time Visiting Assistant Professor at a local university. For three years I believed in...
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Personal is Political: Dismantling Racism and White Supremacy Must Come from Within
Too often when the rubber hits the road with anti-racist white people being held accountable by Black/Latin@/Asian/Indigenous/Arab peoples for their OWN acts of covert and...
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Afterword: Toni Cade Bambara’s Living Legacy
#BambaraOnTFW Sixty-nine essays, remembrances, love notes, poems, and videos and thirteen days later, my sister co-curator and co-editor, Heidi Renée Lewis and I are closing...
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Toni Cade Bambara: ‘…an uptown Griot’
Cheryl Clarke: The Black Woman: An Anthology from 1970, which Toni edited...is still one of the books I live by. Really, until Barbara Smith and...
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Hunger
They say you had the eye; they say you saw into people. They say you came before as shaman or bruja and returned as priestess; they say...
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On Toni Cade Bambara and the Darren Wilson Jury Decision
We are explicitly clear that our commitment to honoring Toni Cade Bambara is just what we need now and every other heinous time when Black...
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One Thing: Toni Cade Bambara in the Speaking Everyday
So when The Salt Eaters or any of Toni Cade Bambara’s life-saving works fall off my bookshelf, or a scene from her literary creation shows...
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I’ve Got Something To Say About This: A Survival Incantation
Kate Rushin: I see the whole thing played out. I'm bludgeoned, bloody, raped. My story is reduced to filler buried in the back of the...
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Feminists We Love: Toni Cade Bambara
Heidi R. Lewis: Toni Cade Bambara gave me a feminism that was Black—a feminism that was loud, strong, collective, vulnerable, powerful, communal, honest, and intimate,...
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We Remember You, Me and Us: Transgender Day of Remembrance
In reclaiming the body from the biomedical syndicate as well as from the naturopathic types I have been dealing with, the best way I know...
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Rage and Meditation: Celebrating Toni Cade Bambara’s 75th Birthday
In spite of the aforementioned examples of blatant and often grotesque, sexism, misogyny, classism, heterosexism, and homophobia practiced in many (not all) organized religions, there...
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a spell to save your life
Alexis Pauline Gumbs: eat salt not that ocean drowning snack to stop thinking about dying unintentional salt
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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...
