Machine generated contents note: 55. Wa Gago: An International Student's Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back / 1. Old and Black, a Prayer / Kholofelo Theledi. 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. A 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. A 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. The 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. The 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. A 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. The 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. A 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.
Summary:
"In 1981, Chicana literary icons Gloria Anzaldúa 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.
Series:
The feminist wire books: connecting feminisms, race, and social justice
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