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flowerytale · 11 months

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Alice Walker, from “Even As I Hold You”, Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990

#alice walker #poetry #poem #poems #typo #typography #words #fragments #fave #*

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femmefatalevibe · 11 months

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Essential Feminist Texts Booklist

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

A Vindication of The Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by Bell Hooks

Feminism is For Everybody: Passionate Politics by Bell Hooks

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution by Shulamith Firestone

Sexual Politics by Kate Millett

Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner

Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape by Jessica Valenti

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit

The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women by Alicia Malone

Girlhood by Melissa Febos

The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel

Is This Normal?: Judgment-Free Straight Talk about Your Body by Dr. Jolene Brighten

Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski, Ph.D

The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism by Dr. Jennifer Gunter

The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women by Anushay Hossain

Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn

The Turnaway Study: The Cost of Denying Women Access to Abortion by Diana Greene Foster, Ph.D

Regretting Motherhood: A Study by Orna Donath

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thoughtkick · 5 months

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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

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lillyli-74 · 10 days

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We will turn our madness into flowers.

~Alice Walker

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milkandheavysugar · 1 year

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Author/Poet Alice Walker in New Haven, Connecticut (1977), photo by William R. Ferris

#alice walker #the color purple #1970s #70s #afro #black author #authors #author #william ferris

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quotemadness · 1 year

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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

#Alice Walker #quotes #quote #lit #literature

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theearlofmelancholy · 1 year

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silverity · 7 months

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i didn't hear about Alice Walker defending JK Rowling! she's a womanist/Black feminist who speaks so much on the unique Black female experience, which is often ignored and depreciated as Black women often are, so is it any wonder she questions the erasure of the female experience for all women? it's mad for anybody intimately familiar with her work to be surprised by this, madder still to construe this as "cis feminist ignorance" when this is so in keeping with everything she's been about.

for any fems unaware she received backlash from within the Black community after 'The Color Purple' film was made based on her novel, as it depicts Black male violence against Black women. Black men particularly accused her of being "anti-Black men". certainly she knows how important the discussion of sex, sexuality, sexual violence and exploitation is for feminism and isn't concerned about disrupting male supremacy.

i really love her for it & i'm sad Black folks, particularly Black women, are shutting her down instead of listening and considering her perspective. she is one of the Greats of Black literature and Black feminist thought, having coined the term womanism to mean Black feminism. it's insane to dismiss or even "cancel" an elder as great as she is.

#i replaced the broken link guys sorry!#radblr #terfblr #alice walker #womanism #black feminism #terf #feminism #original posts

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siamkram · 2 months

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"A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world." -Alice Walker

#Alice walker #artists #poets #heart #love #creation #creativity #quotes #philosophy #blackpoets

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bitterkarella · 1 year

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Midnight Pals: Alice Walker

[mysterious circle of robed figures] JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: I want to introducccce our newest recruit Rowling: Aliccce Walker Alice Walker: “children” is a gender-neutral form of address that will turn people trans Walker: issssn’t she great?

Rowling: welcome to my terf deatheatersss, alice Walker: great to be here Walker: no better way for an esteemed legacy of civil rights and feminist activism to end Walker: than here in the den of rational thought Walker: hey joanne you went pretty easy on the goblins in your book

Walker: I liked the part in your book where the goblins ran the banks Rowling: yesss Walker: and the part where they make matzo out of Christian baby blood Rowling: Rowling: uh

Rowling: that didn’t happen in the book Walker: oh sorry was that just in the movie? Rowling: that wassssn’t in the movie Walker: oh the video game then? Walker: I mean, you didn’t leave that out did you? Walker: seems like a real oversight!

Rowling: I don’t get it Rowling: it’ss sso weird how we try to be transsphobess but we keep attracting antisssemitesss Rowling: itsss like thossse thingsss are connected ssomehow Rowling: Walker: maybe trans people are a jewish conspiracy? Rowling: yess yess that musst be it!

Rowling: you know, I really don’t know how we don’t have lovecraft at thesssse meetingssss Rowling: we’re literally ssscared of all the sssame ssstuff!

Walker: I have a poem I’d like to read Walker: it’s called “my stupid jewish lawyer ex, he is stupid and smells” Rowling: yess YESS Rowling: you’ll find in nicccely here Rowling: becausse if there’sss one thing about my terf deatheatersss Rowling: they are all EXTREMELY divorced

#midnight pals #the midnight society #midnight society #jk rowling #alice walker

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thehopefulquotes · 4 months

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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

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perfectfeelings · 1 year

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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

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resqectable · 2 months

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Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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thoughtkick · 7 months

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Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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edenfenixblogs · 2 months

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Some Excerpts As I Read

Reader Note: I have read The Color Purple and would never dismiss the importance of Alice Walker’s work. However, let’s not pretend that she’s too sacred to critique and treat like any other artist who does something racist. Her work to combat anti-black racism and highlight Black American struggles do not permit or excuse when she engages in other forms of bigotry.

I have never seen someone make a public stink about the extraordinarily racist poem, of which the section quoted above is only the tip of that particular racist iceberg.

In fact, I did not even know that Walker had written this horrible “poem” (if you can call an antisemitic diatribe with weird spacing a poem) —despite being very active in leftist spaces for my whole adult AND adolescent life and being an avid reader or both novels and poetry until 2023.

It was brought to my attention when she caught flak for being a TERF, as an incidental aside to prove that she was actually bigoted in several ways. A trait she ALSO shares with JK Rowling.

Look at these headlines. This is what comes up when I search “Alice walker transphobia.” They clearly label her as a TERF. But they do not make the same claim about her identity as BEING an antisemite. It is removed from her. Antisemitism is clearly not the focus here, which is fine. It is older news. These stories are reporting on her more recent bigotry. Cool.

These are the first results that come up when I search “alice walker antisemitism.”

The first result is from The Times of Israel, which makes sense, because that’s a place where a lot of Jews live and a lot of Jews will be upset by the things she wrote. But it also doesn’t make sense, because Walker is American. Why is the FIRST result about her antisemitism from an international newspaper that happens to have a large Jewish readership?

Why is the NYT headline about how Walker feels about her own bigotry, instead of how her Jewish readers feel?

The New York Magazine Article looked interesting so I clicked it. It was interesting. You should read it. It is an Op-Ed written by a Black, Jewish woman named Nylah Burton. Kudos to her. It was important. And non-Jews need to read it. It was written in 2018.

The Atlantic is next and primarily takes on the work of critiquing a different article in the New Yorker which also minimized the importance and harmful impact of antisemitism.

And then things get interesting. Still, on the first page of results, is this juxtaposition.

Among the many striking things here is the fact that the Jerusalem Post is writing from 2023. Al Jazeera is writing from 2019.

If you’ve read any of the above links or text you will note that yes, Alice Walker’s “offense” is indeed antisemitism. It’s not really debatable. She’s done many, many horrifically antisemitic things.

And yet, Al Jazeera jumps in, unprompted, to defend a known antisemite? Why?????? Oh, because she supports Palestine.

Well…perhaps…just maybe…supporters of Palestine shouldn’t want to leap to the defense of antisemites who spout blatant misinformation about the I/P conflict, demonize the Jews they know personally, and trade in antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Unless of course…they don’t care that they are pushing pro-Palestine Jews out of leftist spaces in the first place.

When did it become acceptable for leftists to excuse someone’s bigotry as long as the bigot agrees with you on other stuff?

#Jews Don’t Count #David Baddiel #the Jewish experience #jumblr #antiracism #antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #Alice Walker #anti racism #I dare a goy to reblog this challenge

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hyperallergic · 9 months

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Jean Weisinger spent much of the 1990s capturing intimate portraits of revolutionary Black women — Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, and Assata Shakur among them — and impromptu photographs of people she met in her travels across the United States. ⁠ ⁠ Almost none of the artist’s work made its way into museum collections or gallery exhibitions, but from the tiny Alice Austen House in Staten Island, Executive Director Victoria Munro has spent the past two and a half years developing Weisinger’s unrevealed photographs and meticulously documenting the histories behind each one of them.⁠

#jean weisinger #art #photography #audre lorde #alice walker #angela davis #assata shakur #alice austen house

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