#alice walker

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remember that shug and celie’s relationship was never defined, their sexualities never labeled, and their dynamic never questioned. their relationship is crucial to the story, but their being two women is hardly addressed. remember that queer representation doesn’t always have to be sad or tense or dramatic. remember that radical inclusivity looks like this. remember that you can celebrate queerness without putting anyone or anything in boxes. remember that people can just love and be loved, and there doesn’t have to be more to it

[dragonzlayerx12]

I got 3 short story recommendations

1. Everyday Use - Alice Walker.

2. The Passing of Grandison - Charles w. Chestnutt

3. Harrison Bergeron - Kurt Vonnegut

Everyday Use is set in the 1960’s-1970’s in the south and follows Mama (Narrator) and Maggie with the oldest daughter, Dee (Wengero) returns home. Available in Audio and has a short film adaptation.

The Passing of Grandison is set in 1850’s Kentucky, and is about a man trying his best to free a slave as lazily as he can. Available in Audio. This is an amazing story, please read it.

Everyday Use is a Sci-Fi dystopia where everyone is made equal to the lowest common denominator in society. It is a short story, about 15 minutes long. Available in Audio, and there is a film version, but I haven’t seen it.

Please, go read these. They are all amazing.

[diana-prince43]

For Black July, choose a black author/novelist.

Nella Larsen

Alice Walker

P. Djélí Clark

Zora Neale Hurston

Octavia Butler

N. K. Jemisin

Saara El-Arifi

Tracy Deonn

Maya Angelou

Percival Everett

Toni Morrison

other (in the tags)

Voting ended onJul 15

[intotheclash]

Ho imparato a non preoccuparmi dell'amore ma di onorare le sue visite con tutto il mio cuore. Esaminare i cupi misteri del sangue con mente allegra e leggera, conoscere il flusso delle emozioni sciolte e veloci come l'acqua. La fonte sembra qualche inesauribile sorgente all'interno della nostra doppia o triplice essenza; il nuovo viso che io rivolgo a te nessuno al mondo l'ha visto ancora. Alice Walker - Nuovo viso

[cgoodin]

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” - Alice Walker

[nadielle]

— The Color Purple by Alice Walker.

[ironmyrmidon]

I hear trans men call us trans women disloyal to our community and see them treat us like we should be sexually available to them and put their emotions first.

I also hear black women describe similar experiences when dealing with black men.

I hear cis feminists talk about how us trans women are holding feminism back and we should be cut loose for the good of women. I hear them describe us as less feminine, as mannish, as not even real women.

I also hear womanists describe similar experiences when dealing with white feminists.

I hear a lot of my own experiences reflected in the experiences of black women.

I'm a white American, so anything I have to say on being racially oppressed is necessarily the perspective of an outsider. Having established that, I believe that I may find a great deal of wisdom and strength in increased communion between womanists and transfeminists. That's why I would like to learn more about womanism.

I've begun reading Alice Walker's In Search of our Mother's Gardens, which I understand to be the seminal work of womanist theory. However, I assume that womanist theory has evolved greatly over the last 50 years. My primary motivation for making this post is to ask people who are well learned in the womanist tradition what other resources I should look to.

I worry that I have said something unintentionally insensitive, and I know that expecting a minority group to teach you how to be better to them is kind of rude and counterproductive. In case I have put my foot in my mouth, I have preemptively made a donation of $100 to the Marsha P Johnson Institute, a charitable organization dedicated to providing assistance to black transgender women. Hopefully that will more than outweigh any offense that I might cause.

[quotefeeling]

You can never really go back to the same waters. Not only are you no longer the same, but neither are the waters you left. The current has changed. The elements of nature have affected the stream. When you return, although it appears the same, it really is a different river and you are a different person. Therefore, you cannot cross the same river twice.

Alice Walker