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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Courtney Thorsson, The Sisterhood. How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture, Columbia University Press, New York, NY, 2023
Cover Art: June Jordan, on far right, with Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Nana Maynard, Ntozake Shange, Vertamae Grosvenor and others, The Sisterhood, 1977 [Inscription: Verso, front row left to right: Nana Maynard, Ntozake Shange, possibly Louise Meriwether; back row left to right: Vertamae Grosvenor, Alice Walker, possibly Louise Meriwether, Toni Morrison, June Jordan] [June Jordan Papers. Folder ‘Jordan with others, 1977-1999’, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA]
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Alice Walker, from “Even As I Hold You”, Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990
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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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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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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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We will turn our madness into flowers.
~Alice Walker
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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.
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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
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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
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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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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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Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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