#tonicadebambara

[thesagittarianmind]

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"Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?" "The Salt Eaters" by Toni Cade Bambara 🖤📚 Talk to me about your wellness practices and rituals of self care. mine involve smelly baths, skullcap tea, gazing at art, stars and flowers. What do you do to stay & feel well? 🤔💕👌🏾

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[trascapades]

🎥 #ArtIsAWeapon

"TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing" (@tcb_doc), an award-winning documentary about the inspiring, influential artist/activist/filmmaker, and "The Bombing of Osage Avenue," which she wrote and narrated, will screen at the @mayslesdocumentarycenter in Harlem today, May 13.

Co-presented with Scribe Video Center @scribevideocenter, the screenings will be followed by a Q&A with its founder, filmmaker Louis Massiah @louis.massiah.

🗓 Wednesday, May 13, 2026

🕕 6:00 PM

📍Maysles Documentary Center, 343 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027

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The Maysles Documentary Center, a not for profit organization, is dedicated to the exhibition and production of documentary films that inspi

🖼✍️🏾 reposted from @mayslesdocumentarycenter

TCB – THE TONI CADE BAMBARA SCHOOL of ORGANIZING

Louis Massiah and Monica Henriquez, 2025, 105 min.

TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing is a biography of the influential writer, filmmaker and cultural worker, who with humor and deep insight, inspired a generation of artists to dedicate themselves to community empowerment.

The film is structured as a series of lessons on cultural organizing, gleaned from Bambara's life and shared by her friends, colleagues and students.

Preceded by

THE BOMBING OF OSAGE AVENUE

Louis Massiah and Toni Cade Bambara, 57 min.

On Mother's Day, 1985, a virtual army of city and state police converged on a quiet block in historic Cobb's Creek, a blossoming neighborhood of parks and children, aluminum siding and basketball stars nestled in the heart of Philadelphia's African American community. By the next day, 61 homes were destroyed and 11 people were dead, all members of the communitarian MOVE organization. In this, the winner of 1987's Global Village "Best Documentary Award", Massiah establishes the setting for the tragedy early on, and Toni Cade Bambara's poetic narration draws us deeper into the drama.

TONI CADE BAMBARA (1939–1995) was a writer, documentary filmmaker, and activist whose groundbreaking works, including The Black Woman (1970), Gorilla, My Love (1972), and The Salt Eaters (1980), helped define the Black Arts and feminist movements. Her life’s work continues to shape contemporary thought on art, education, and liberation.

Ticket link in bio!

[kobiamu58]

ND 75 — Toni Cade Bambara: Voice of Resistance

a voice that refuses silence woven from struggle, memory, fire she writes the streets, the unheard, the rising

her words don’t whisper— they insist

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[chrislanier]

#gorillamylove #dustyolevelvetrope #tonicadebambara From the title story, where some kids show up to a movie titled hilariously “Gorilla, My Love,” which fatally features zero gorillas. So much good stuff in here, from the line about the dusty velvet rope, to the simple adjective “brown” which perfectly evokes faded 16mm emulsion, fighting against the shuttered light of a classroom. And it’s all so funny too. I could read this story 20 times and will always crack up when I get to “Thunderbuns.” Not my underlining, FWIW. https://www.instagram.com/p/CcI6a9YpnpE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[chrislanier]

#gorillamylove #tonicadebambara Am in this dispersed reading space where I’m reading a half dozen things simultaneously in tiny sprints, in which this fits perfectly, short stories with a density of vernacular detail that’s kinda breathtaking. The story I read this morning is about a girl at a track meet (!) so I’m gonna have to share it with Jules later today. Next pic is a representative paragraph. https://www.instagram.com/p/CcI5iR1pW_8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=