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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Foreword / Michelle Duster -- 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. |
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American literature -- African American authors.
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American literature -- Women authors.
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American literature -- 21st century.
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Gender-nonconforming people's writings, American.
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| Addt'l Author |
Greenlee, Cynthia R., editor.
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Alabi, Kemi, editor.
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Zinzi, Janna, editor.
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Duster, Michelle, writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
1558612831 (paperback) |
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9781558612839 (paperback) |
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