Polly Coppinger’s Son: Osceola,”Master Spirit of the Seminole Nation” (1804-1838)
National Indigenous Peoples Day is being celebrated across the United States this week. Malinda...
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Tag: black women writers
Books, Glorious Books: May you know them and read them!
Books, in any and all formats, are human evolution’s most valuable resource. Books invite us into...
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Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Woman Writer on Slavery and the Haunting that Persists.
Woman writer Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a novel about the enslavement of Black Americans and its...
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Toni Cade Bambara: How to Care for Oneself While Healing The All (American Woman Writer 1939-1995)
While reading adrienne maree brown’s Pleasure Activism for #NastyWomenWriters, I was stopped in my...
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A Tipping Point: Open Spaces in Our Public Places
My sister Theresa and I started this website, Nasty Women Writers, three years ago, our goal being...
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Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Women Writers on Writing
I guess it is true that humans often resist change. Hold on to tired old things that are no longer...
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Toni Morrison’s Sula: Available to and for her own imagination—a rare kind of freedom and a black woman writer’s manifesto.
Toni Morrison’s Sula (1973) has long been one of my favorite books. Besides simply wanting to...
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Austin Channing Brown: Leading Conversations About Racial Justice
Scrambling to educate myself after being faced with the realization of what I don’t know and of...
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Lorraine Hansberry: A Black Woman Writer’s Voice we need NOW! American(1930-1965) By Theresa C. Dintino
Lorraine Hansberry is a National Treasure. We need her voice. Especially now when, as a country we...
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