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‘VULNEROR NON VINCOR,’ 2020
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‘ORANGE GODDESS,’2020
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‘DISTEMPERED CRAVES,’ 2019-20
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by Cheryl Clarke,Living as a Lesbian
We are everywhere and white people still do not see us.
They force us from sidewalks.
Mistake us for men.
Expect us to give up our seats to them on the bus.
Challenge us with their faces.
Are afraid of us in groups.
Thus the brutal one on one.
Like a t.v. news script, every transition frustrates
rage. Hand in hand with me
you admonish
not to let them come between us
not to let them come between us on the street.
We are struck by war crazy men
recording their gunfire on stereo cassette decks.
Barbara Smith (born December 16, 1946) in Cleveland is an American, lesbian feminist who has played a significant role in building and sustaining Black Feminism in the United States. Since the early 1970s she has been active as an innovative critic, teacher, lecturer, author, independent scholar, and publisher of Black feminist thought. She has also taught at numerous colleges and universities over the last twenty five years. Smith’s essays, reviews, articles, short stories and literary criticism have appeared in a range of publications, including The New York Times Book Review, The Black Scholar, Ms., Gay Community News, The Guardian, The Village Voice, Conditions (magazine) and The Nation. In 1975 she reorganized the Boston chapter of the National Black Feminist Organization to establish the Combahee River Collective. Barbara has a twin sister, Beverly Smith, who is also a lesbian feminist activist and writer.
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Remembering Berkeley’s Marcia Freedman, first out lesbian in Israel’s legislature
Remembering Berkeley’s Marcia Freedman, first out lesbian in Israel’s legislature
There’s a limit to what any one person can accomplish in her time on earth. Marcia Freedman managed to blow right past the limit and just kept going.
Pioneering feminist, LGBTQ activist, Knesset member, author and co-founder of an esteemed Middle East peace organization, Marcia Freedman died Sept. 21 in Berkeley. She was 83.
“She was quiet and wise,” said Janis Plotkin, who decades ago…
