Kitchen Table Women Of Color Press
Chicana feminist cherrie moraga and i at the makers.
Kitchen table women of color press. Over at the city lights blog. N of color press. In the spring of 1994 during my first year in college cherrie moraga changed my life forever.
Women of color press was an activist feminist press started in 1980 by author barbara smith at the suggestion of her friend poet audre lorde. Even less than a decade ago writing by. Kitchen table women of color press 1988.
This bridge called my back writings by radical women of color editors. Toni cade bambara a kitchen table wome. Protected daisy accessible book african american women afro american women evacuation and relocation 1942 1945 feminism japanese americans literary.
Women of color press barbara smith if any one had asked in 1980 whether books by women of color could sell or whether a press that published only work by and about women of color could survive the logical an swer would have been no especially if the person who an swered the question was part of the commercial publishing establishment. Cherrie moraga gloria anzaldua foreword. The freedom organizing pamphlet series.
The work of increasing the visibility for women writers poets and artists of color is still extremely necessary and our centers mission reflects our dedication to this very important work. The freedom organizing pamphlet series presents current issues strategies and resources focusing upon the political concerns of women of color in a highly accessible format. Women of color press was an activist feminist press that was closely related to the national black feminist organization nbfo which was started in 1980 following a phone conversation between barbara smith and at the suggestion of her friend poet audre lorde.
Because we cannot live without our. Women of color pressed for knowledge because audre lorde said your silence will not protect you because barbara smith said but some of us are brave because toni cade bambara said the role of the revolutionary artist is to make revolution irresistible because sylvia wynter says our poetics is our politics is the way we make a world. Alexis pauline gumbs the founder of brokenbeautiful press talks about kitchen table.