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"In 1981, Chicana literary icons Gloria Anzald�ua and Cherie Moraga published what would become a foundational legacy for generations of feminist women of color-the seminal This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. In celebration of that legacy's 40th anniversary, editors gloria j. wilson, Joni Boyd Acuff, and Amelia M. Kraehe offer new generations A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back. A Love Letter contributors illuminate, question, and respond to current politics, progressive struggles, transformations, acts of resistance, and solidarity, while also offering readers a space for renewal and healing"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 TAKING HEED OF THE SACRED, SPIRITUAL, AND ANCESTRAL
• 1. Old and Black, a Prayer / Charlene A. Carruthers
• 2. Unbought and Unbossed: Black Womanlst Resistance / Keya Crenshaw
• 3. Alight / Elizabeth Jones
• 4. This Is My Body, This Is My Blood: Reimaging Ritual in the Creation of Mexica-Feminine Sacred Spaces / Raquel Hernandez Guerrero
• 5. Tales Left Untold: Tribal Women and Their Windows to the World / Ami Kantawala
• pt. 2 FRAGMENTS, FRACTURES, AND FUMBLINGS
• 6. Black* Composition / Gloria J. Wilson
• 7. How to Survive Lightweight Trauma and Death Threats: Home Is Where You Can Live Now / Vivian Fumiko Chin
• 8. Becoming Middle Girl / Amelia M. Kraehe
• 9. Flesh, Skin, and Bones @marimachaspeaks / Tanya Diaz-Kozlowski
• 10. Nochipa Ipan Noyoltsin (Always in My Heart)
• Batallas Cotidianas / Liliana Conlisk Gallegos
• pt. 3 PEDAGOGIES OF LIBERATION AND RESISTANCE
• 11. Generation After Generation / Sama Alshaibi
• 12. When Love Is Not Enough: Choosing to Heal Ourselves When the World Wants Us to Burn / Bianca Tonantzin Zamora
• 13. Professor Becky and I / Sana Rizvi
• 14. Put It on Blast / Carol Zou
• 15. Note to Self: Ruminations of Black Womanhood X Leadership X Resistance / Portia Newman
• pt. 4 DIASPORAS, DEPARTURES, AND DISPLACEMENT

• 16. Can't You Speak Perfect English?: The Language That Troubles Me / Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis
• 17. Studies in the Flesh: Subversive Rewriting / Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis
• 18. Levels to This Shit: Racial Categorization, Mixed Skin, and the Isolation of Bridging / Vanessa Lopez
• 19. Feeling Out oi Place: Friendship and Community Building Across Difference / Nozomi (Nakaganeku) Saito
• 20. Where Are You From? / Adriane Pereira
• 21. Karachi, "First Worlds," and the Spaces in Between / Sana Rizvi
• 22. Asian American Feminism, Letter Writing, and the Possibility ofBrea(d)fh / Lan Duong
• 23. Water and the Bridge: Dilemmas of In betweenness / Manisha Sharma
• pt. 5 MOTHERING AND SISTERING
• 24. Sissy My Playmate; Sissy My Enemy; Hand-Check Slap / Sama Alshaibi
• 25. Difference Is
• My Lived Experience! / Sonia Bassheva Manjon
• 26. Not So Micro / Rae Scott
• 27. All of It / Dionne Custer Edwards
• 28. We work / we sweat / Khaliah D. Pitts
• pt. 6 PARADOXES AND PERSONIFICATIONS OF EXPRESSION
• 29. Ain't We Clever Too? / Pamela Harris Lawton
• 30. Julia Pastrana and the Eye of the Beholder / Laura Anderson Barbata
• 31. Consent and Female Desire in India / Nisha Ghatak
• 32. Dear BLACK Woman / Amber C. Coleman
• 33. For Rachel Dolezal Who Performs Black Womanhood When White Privilege Isn't Enuf / Tyiesha Radford Shorts
• pt. 7 SPEAKING INTERSECTIONAL TRUTHS
• 34. Toward a PoUtic of Preemptive Care / Tahereh Aghdasifar
• 35. In the Name of Diversity
• A Sisters' Conversation / Sister Scholars
• 36. Open Love Letter to My Younger Self, a Young Black Butch Working Through Her Shit / Brittney Edmonds
• 37. From Paperback to Praxis: In Search of Filipina/x Feroinisms in the Diaspora / Karla Villanueva Danan
• 38. "Ain't I a Woman?": Sojourner Truth in 1851 vs. a Black Sex-Trafficked Woman Survivor in the Present / Jacquelyn C. A. Meshelemiah
• 39. Love Letter to Ourselves: Self-Love as a Revolutionary Act, Theories of the Flesh, and (In)Compatible Identities / Sarah De Los Santos Upton
• pt. 8 SENSE MAKING AND EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE
• 40. This Bridge: Intergenerational Story Archive, Re-rooting Solidarity / Susy Zepeda
• 41. Excavating and Embracing Anger: An Abolitionist Practice Within / Stephanie Cariaga
• 42. How to Make Collard Greens / Olivia Richardson
• 43. Recognize / Kaia Angelica Lyons
• 44. Endarkened Preludes to Womanhood / Kendra Johnson
• 45. Black Woman Coalition / Lisa Whittington
• pt. 9 JUSTICE AND HEALING IN TIMES OF CRISIS
• 46. To Healing Heridas con Corazoncs of Generations: A Testimonio / Gabriela Arredondo
• 47. Hasta Encontrarlos / Until We Find Them / Gia Del Pino
• 48. EI Nuevo Mundo / Johanna Castillo
• 49. !No Mas Babosadasl Realigning Central American Fcmmc Subjectivity in Our Narratives / Chela E. Hernandez
• 50. Say Her Name / Ashley Crooks-Allen
• pt. 10 REMEMBERING THIS BRIDGE: LOVE LETTERS
• 51. Bridge Work Ahead: Women of Color Liberatory Pedagogies, Then and Now / Mel michelle lewis
• 52. My Black is Beautiful / Gertrude Swan
• 53. Declaration of Gratitude for the Tongues We Speak / Fabiane Ramos
• 54. Coining into My Feminista Ways with This Bridge Called My Back / Judith Flores Carmona
• 55. Wa Gago: An International Student's Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back / Kholofelo Theledi.

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Contributors:

wilson, gloria j, 1973- , editor

Acuff, Joni Boyd, 1982- , editor

Kraehe, Amelia M. , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

The feminist wire books: connecting feminisms, race, and social justice

Subjects:

Feminism — Literary collections

Minority women — Literary collections

Feminists — United States — Literary collections

American literature — Minority authors

American literature — Women authors

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

PS509.F44 L68 2022eb

ISBNs:

9780816545247 (electronic bk.)
0816545243 (electronic bk.)
9780816544080 [Invalid]
0816544085 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1311951282

Other Control Numbers:

EBC29195710 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp17917075