Toward our black feminist future / Kemi Alabi. The origin story / Janna a. Zinzi -- The structure and the struggle. Introduction / Kemi Alabi -- The violence happening in Ferguson is more than physical / Alexandra Moffett-Bateau -- Powerless in the face of white supremacy and a gun / Bianca Campbell -- Healing in the midst of tragedy : how can black folks keep surviving in the face of constant trauma? / Quita Tinsley -- What Black Lives Matter organizers are doing to fight white supremacy at every level / Shanelle Matthews -- Urban and rural America are connected by economic refuges like me / Erin Malone -- Equal pay day for (some) African American women / Alexandra Moffett-Bateau -- #UsToo : we must expand the conversation on sexual violence / Raquel Willis -- The school-to-prison pipeline affects girls of color, but reform efforts pass them by / Ruth Jeannoel -- The right to (black) life / Renee Bracey Sherman -- Birth justice ...and yes, that includes abortion. Introduction / Cynthia R. Greenlee -- Who should you listen to on abortion? people who've had them / Renee Bracey Sherman -- The road to Roe : paved with bodies of women of color and the legal activism of African Americans / Cynthia R. Greenlee -- Whitewashing reproductive rights : how black activists get erased / Renee Bracey Sherman -- What my first pregnancy taught me about birth justice / Ruth Jeannoel -- Serena Williams could insist that doctors listen to her. most black women can't. / Elizabeth Dawes Gay -- Choice under fire : issues surrounding African American reproductive rights / Renee Bracey Sherman -- The story that's taken ten years to tell : on abortion, race, and the power of story / Shenelle Matthews -- On "commonsense childbirth" : a QA with midwife Jennie Joseph / Elizabeth Dawes Gay -- Insurance coverage of doula care would benefit patients and service providers alike / Elizabeth Dawes Gay -- The largely forgotten history of abortion billboard advertising -- and what pro-choice advocates can learn from it / Cynthia R. Greenlee -- Want to win on abortion? talk about it as an issue of love, compassion / Yamani Hernandez -- Family matters. Introduction / Kemi Alabi -- A (midwestern) black lesbian's reflections on 20 years of being "family" / Jasmine Burnett -- Stigma around "nontraditional" families won't end with assisted reproductive technology / Bianca Campbell -- Trans women are women. this isn't a debate. / Raquel Willis -- On being a proud teen mom : I don't hate myself as much as you wish I did / Gloria Malone -- For my mother : a day without cancer / Cynthia R. Greenlee -- I'll always love Big Poppa : how Biggie Smalls helped me understand my parents' deaths / Brittany Brathwaite -- The backlash to Beyoncé's pregnancy is an example of the attack on black motherhood / Gloria Malone -- The criminal justice system is failing black families / Samantha Daley -- The names of things / Kemi Alabi -- Naked power. Introduction / Janna A. Zinzi -- Auntie conversations : black women talk sex, self-care, and illness / Charmaine Lang -- Shaming women about having sex doesn't stop us from having sex / Emma Akpan -- A new "pum pum palitix" : carnival and the sex education the Caribbean needs / Bianca Campbell and Samantha Daley -- Exam rooms and bedrooms : navigating queer sexual health / Taja Lindley -- Why doesn't the trans community have a legit dating app yet? / Raquel Willis -- Sexy MF : celebrating Prince, New Orleans Baby Dolls, and not giving a f*ck / Janna A. Zinzi -- This is what naked power looks like / Taja LIndley -- Black, queer, and dating in the buckle of the bible belt / Jordan Scruggs -- Radically truthful dating profiles / Various -- Beauty breaks. Introduction / Cynthia R. Greenlee -- Why I debated getting my breasts augmented -- and why I finally did / Raquel Willis -- Learning to love it, yes even that : boob sweat and more / Quita Tinsley -- I'm a black woman; that doesn't mean I have a bomb in my hair / Taja Lindley -- Soft beautiful just for me relaxer, no-lye conditioning crème, children's regular / Kemi Alabi -- I like my unruly eyebrows, thank you very much / Cynthia R. Greenlee -- "Are you just a plaything of nature?" Amina Ross on the politics of beauty / Kemi Alabi -- For the kulcha. Introduction / Janna A. Zinzi -- How Prince helped me be black and genderqueer in America's bible capital / Jordan Scruggs -- 30 years later, 7 ways A different world was woke AF / Brittany Brathwaite -- How statement t-shirts unite black history, culture, and fashion / Cynthia R. Greenlee -- Where's the 16, parenting, and OK reality show? / Gloria Malone -- Lemonade refreshed my spirit. I didn't feel exploited, commodified, or powerless, bell hooks. Emma Akpan -- I became a black woman in Spokane, but, Rachel Dolezal, I was a black girl first. / Alicia Walters -- Weed for period pain? yes, but I want equity in the marijuana industry too / Jasmine Burnett -- Tourmaline wants her just due / Raquel Willis -- The word is "nemesis" : the fight to integrate the national spelling bee / Cynthia R. Greenlee -- We will always love you : why Whitney Houston was our all-American gurl / Jordan Scruggs and Janna A. Zinzi -- Black love and black futures. Introduction / Cynthia R. Greenlee -- Journey to me : how I came out and embraced all of me / Charmaine Lang -- We should all go to rehab / Yamani Hernandez -- In betweens / Jordan Scruggs -- Trans visionaries : how Miss Major helped spark the modern trans movement / Raquel Willis -- Pleasure politics part I : employment, economic justice, and the erotic / Taja LIndley -- Herbs that fortify us / Carib Healing Collective -- Lessons in queer community building : fear, yearning, and loving in Milwaukee / Charmaine Lang -- Word is bond : a ritual / Taja Lindley -- Onward. Sometimes, the struggle isn't with "them." it's between us. / Cynthia R. Greenlee and Charmaine Lang -- Bernie is not my bro and Omarosa is not my homegirl : Idas as interrupters / Janna A. Zinzi -- Reverse haiku for black writers when the calls for pitches are too much / Cynthia R. Greenlee -- Toward our black feminist future / Kemi Alabi.
Summary:
"Founded in 2012, Echoing Ida is a writing collective of Black women and nonbinary writers who-like their foremother Ida B. Wells-Barnett-believe the "way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." Their community reporting spans a wide variety of topics: reproductive justice and abortion politics; new and necessary definitions of family; trans visibility; stigma against Black motherhood; Black mental health; and more. The Echoing Ida Collection gathers the best of Echoing Ida for the first time, and features a foreword by Michelle Duster, activist and great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells-Barnett"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.