All posts tagged "Toni Morrison"
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“The Least of These”: Black Children, Sexual Abuse, and Theological Malpractice
Until Black churches are honest about human sexuality and our collective discomfort with it, sexual violence will remain unchecked and accountability will be nothing more...
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ELEMENTARY FEMINISMS: The Lucky Ones [Trigger Warning: Discusses Sexual Abuse]
By Anonymous This is how her story...
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Feminists We Love: Linda Janet Holmes [VIDEO]
Linda Janet Holmes is Toni Cade Bambara's first biographer and she is an incredible storyteller. During our interview, Linda shared so much about Toni's incredible...
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And The Beat Goes On: Toni Cade Bambara
Dr. Gloria I. Joseph: Toni Cade Bambara’s talents and intellect were indeed, outstanding. Her range of knowledge was extensive as was repeatedly demonstrated during conversations...
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Personal is Political: The Art of Getting to the Point
Wesley Brown: A woman asked the honorees why black writers weren’t giving their readers more positive stories about black life. Toni responded immediately, saying, “I’ve...
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It’s Not the Salt; it’s the Sugar that Will Kill You
Kalamu ya Salaam: This Toni was never going to win major awards, never going to be enshrined in the academy. This Toni would look back...
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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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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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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Bringing “All” to the Tent of Communal Healing
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes Inspired by the story of a Black enslaved woman, Margaret Garner, Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel Beloved explores the narrative of Sethe,...
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Touching Base with Tayari Jones: An Interview on Black Female Writers and Readers
By Eve Dunbar Tayari Jones attended a brunch in Brooklyn to which I was also invited a few weeks ago. Seven-deep in the a living...
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Rage and Meditation: Celebrating Toni Cade Bambara’s 75th Birthday
Word libation in honor of Toni Cade Bambara’s genius: The task of the artist is determined always by the status and process and agenda of...
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And The Beat Goes On: Toni Cade Bambara
By Gloria I. Joseph, Ph.D. In October 1995, Valerie Boyd conducted an interview with Toni Morrison wherein Morrison described Toni Cade as, … outrageously brilliant… ...
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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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A Radical Love Letter to my son
By Sarah Mantilla Griffin Dear Son, I love you. I have chosen how to love you. I love you radically, and I hope that this...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The "Unsophisticated" Mirror of Rachel Jeantel
By Lauren G. Parker The prosecution needed to represent Rachel Jeantel as much as they represented Trayvon Martin because her assumed unintelligence and subsequent worthlessness...
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I’m Complicated, Just like Feminisms: A Black and White Feminist Working It Out (Part I)
Dr. Connie Ruzich and I first met soon after I walked onto the Robert Morris University campus in 1999. I thought I’d become a Finance...
