The motif of the "kitchen table" runs throughout a number of these essays and entries and it really resonates; this absolutely reads as a series of highly personal, familiar conversations from and for women of coloReading this book felt like a tremendous and unique privilege, knowing that it offered access to some really intimate thoughts, fears, confessions, and hopes of (queer/) women of color that, if we were just sitting face to face, I likely wouldn't have been trusted with as a white man. Published in 1981, the book challenged white feminists claims to solidarity, putting forth instead a model of feminism that embraced intersectionality and recognized the multiple identities that exist within each woman, and within each cWhat a revelation it was to reread This Bridge Called My Back. A Must-Read For All Feminists And Just About Anyone TBH
Broaden your understanding and question your preconceptions.
And that’s the amazing thing about the book -- that the whole thing functions as an extended conversation between radical women of color, and reading it we got to sense, experience, question, gasping in awareness and expression, the way the essays sometimes read like poetry and the poetry like essays and the My favorite piece is the conversation between twin sisters Beverly and Barbara Smith -- all the layers of complexity, understanding, awareness, and even hints of conflict and contradiction!
Nonetheless,This anthology by radical, feminist and mostly lesbian Women of Colour has the aura of a revolutionary moment. An anthology of personal experience in poems, theory, essays, letters, and interviews.This book is the single most important book in the feminist canon. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower Sometimes I feel it urgently.”“A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives — our skin color, the land or concrete we grew up on, our sexual longings — all fuse to create a politic born of necessity.” Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. I loved the range of styles, especially the wonderful poems and prose poems, and generally the directness that gave it the feeling of a drama, the feeling of being in a room with the contributors. The model takes into account factors including the age of a rating, whether the ratings are from verified purchasers, and factors that establish reviewer trustworthiness.Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (Latin America Otherwise) Should be read by those mainstream feminsists who still don't understand why a show like Girls is major FAIL. Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The analysis and honesty with which this book is written creates an endless source of reflection, lesson and/or connection. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color At first I struggled with names and references made and inaccurately claimed that Warsan Shire was mentioned when it was another name I was attempting to articulate (feminist fail).
. Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America Her works explore the ways in which gender, sexuality and race intersect in the lives of women of color.Cherríe Lawrence Moraga (born September 25, 1952) is a Chicana writer, feminist activist, poet, essayist, and playwright. The editors, Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga, are two of my favorite writers. because that shit all came from this shit, no matter what all the white queer theorists try to tell you.This anthology by radical, feminist and mostly lesbian Women of Colour has the aura of a revolutionary moment. Cherríe Lawrence Moraga (born September 25, 1952) is a Chicana writer, feminist activist, poet, essayist, and playwright. “This Bridge Called My Back … has served as a significant rallying call for women of color for a generation, and this new edition keeps that call alive at a time when divisions prove ever more stubborn and dangerous.