Earth Day 2023: Be Inspired by Carol Ruckdeschel, the “Tireless defender of sea turtles” and more.
In honor of Earth Day, April 22, 2023, we’re rerunning this post about the amazing...
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Tag: afro-american women writers
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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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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Woman Writer, Educator and Activist Mary McLeod Bethune (1875 – 1955): Standing Tall in the Hall!
The statue of Mary McLeod Bethune was officially unveiled in the US Capitol earlier this month, on...
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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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Gloria Naylor: Redirecting the Spotlight, American Woman Writer (1950-2016)
I am beyond thrilled to learn of The Gloria Naylor Archive! This extensive repository of...
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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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Temple Grandin: “I Can Picture It Perfectly”(American b. 1947)
Admittedly, I’m obsessed with recording our progress at breaking the bronze ceiling....
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Sonya Renee Taylor: The Map Back to Ourselves
Since reading Sonya Renee Taylor’s book The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical...
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