Faith Ringgold: Quilting Truth into History
Someone told me to go see the exhibit “Faith Ringgold: American People” at the de Young museum in...
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Woman Writer and Activist Alicia Garza: The Dynamics of Power
Let’s begin by saying that movements are not started with hashtags and there is a lot more to...
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Tiya Miles and Saidiya Hartman: Critical Fabulation – Claiming the Narrative and Overriding the Supremacist Archive
In her book All That She Carried, woman writer Tiya Miles explores the lives of three women told...
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Reimagining the Quest for Black Freedom in the USA: Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
It took me some time to understand what Hartman was creating with this book; to understand that...
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Zora Neale Hurston to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: “You are my sister”
Unlikely friendships. They’re often the best because they’re out of the ordinary and anything out...
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Zora Neale Hurston: Nasty Women Writers Who Were Good Friends
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953), woman writer and author of the wildly popular novel The...
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All That She Carried by Tiya Miles: A Woman Writer Recovering the Untold Stories of Black Women in America
Congratulations to Tiya Miles for winning a 2021 National Book Award in the category of Nonfiction...
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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Woman Writer Saidiya Hartman
Black woman writer, author and scholar Tiya Miles is inspired by and gives credit and mention to...
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Morgan Jerkins: This woman writer is on fire! And we all get to benefit.
Morgan Jerkins is a woman writer on fire who we are all benefitting from. At 29 she has written...
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