(Jewelle Gomez and her Nana, photo by Ann Chapman)
Reconnect with the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind Potluck Series on September 2nd at 6pm at the Inspiration Station. We will be discussing Jewelle Gomez's "Because Silence is Costly" and discussing what it means for us to speak up intergenerationally and in community.
You can download the reading here: "Because Silence is Costly"
Bring a dish and a friend if you can and your brilliant eternal mind.
love,
lex
Because Audre Lorde said "Your silence will not protect you." Because Barbara Smith said "but some of us are brave." Because Toni Cade Bambara said "The role of the revolutionary artist is to make revolution irresistible." Because Sylvia Wynter says our poetics is our politics is the way we make a world. Because we cannot live without our lives, our contradictions or our words. Because love is the only thing to make. Because we fall in love with women of color every day.
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