Compelled by the spirit: my journey to become a womanist man / M. Thandabantu Iverson. Coming in being: metta to womanist teachers / Kendra N. Bryant-- Professing the liberatory power of womanism / Gary L. Lemons -- A doctored voice: resistance, reading, and righting as womanist pedagogy / Ylce Irizarry -- Breaking silence / M. Jacqui Alexander and Beverly Guy-Sheftall -- From exile to healing: I "too" am a womanist / Susie L. Hoeller -- Nepantlera as midwife of empathy / Paul T. Corrigan -- A deeper shade of consciousness: my voice is my resistance / Atika Chaudhary -- Transgenero performance: gender and transformation in Mujeres en ritual / Dora Arreola -- Soy mujer cuando ... a collective poem / Andrea Assaf -- Now is not the time for silence: writing and directing What the heart remembers / Fanni V. Green -- "I come from a dream deferred" / Erica C. Sutherlin -- On becoming a feminist / Rudolph P. Byrd -- Compelled by the spirit: my journey to become a womanist man / M. Thandabantu Iverson.
Summary:
Over the last generation, the womanist idea - and the tradition blooming around it - has emerged as an important response to separatism, domination, and oppression. Gary L. Lemons gathers a diverse group of writers to discuss their scholarly and personal experiences with the womanist spirit of women of color feminisms. Feminist and womanist-identified educators, students, performers, and poets model the powerful ways that crossing borders of race, gender, class, sexuality and nation-state affiliation(s) expands one's existence. At the same time, they bear witness to how the self-liberating theory and practice of women of color feminism changes one's life. Throughout, the essayists come together to promote an unwavering vein of activist comradeship capable of building political alliances dedicated to liberty and social justice.
Series:
Transformations : womanist, feminist, and indigenous studies
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