section one: who taught you to feel good? +

3. allied media project

"as i facilitate these movements for social and environmental transformation, with a focus on black liberation, i always prioritize how people feel" 23

4. toni cade bambara

"she taught us many things, but i keep coming back to her task to writers/artists to "make the revolution irresistible"24

uses of the erotic +

uses of the erotic.pdf

"the erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecongnized feeling."

the legacy of "uses of the erotic" +

3. audiobook

"it feels like, yes, cara. i literally heard your voice. i was, like, who do i want to read this audiobook? cara."

5. the salt eaters

"alongside toni cade bambara, especially the salt eaters."38

10. the amen corner

"and she has a chorus of black women very much informed by james baldwin's play the amen corner. his character gets visited by a choir in the bathtub while he's in the bathroom. i realized i often felt like i had a choir of black women in my ear."43

5. sister outsider.pdf

"i would say sister outsider and the salt eaters changed my life"38

7. for colored girls.pdf

"you had, of course, ntozake shange's for colored girls. that changed my fucking life. that changed all the little black girls' lives. right?"41

adaku utah

"we brought poets and burlesque performers and musicians together. and we did a ring-shout that adaku utah led at the beginning, because i said, "girl, can we have a ring-shout?"

harriet's apothecary

"adaku utah is the founder and a collective member of harriet's apothecary."

a spoilerific gush on how octavia butler turns me on +

wild seed

2. bloodchild

3. parable of the sower

4. fledgling

7. clay's ark

octavia butler, the grand dame of science fiction ++

why should you read sci-fi superstar octavia e. butler? ++

the sweetness of salt +

2. the black woman

"she often tells the story of how she was drawn to the image of the beautiful black woman on the cover of bambara's groundbreaking 1970 anthology the black woman, not only black, but dark, with an afro, wither mouth shaped like she had something to say."67

3. on the issue of roles.pdf

"in her essay "on the issue of roles," toni cade explains that if we want to have a revolution, we have to craft revolutionary relationships, in action, not simply in rhetoric." 71

4. this bridge called my back

"in the forward to this bridge called my back, toni cade bambara said "the most effective way to do it is to do it."74

why we get off, by joan morgan +

2. "the danger of a single story" - chimanda ngozi adichie 83

"the second--a recently shared bit of family history--underscores what feminist novelist chimamanda ngozi adichie refers to as "the danger of the single story" by elucidating the master narratives potential for erasure and black female subjectivities."