Alice Walker's Blog, page 31

Pale Face, Forked Tongue, Wasichu* i.e. Fat Taker: Thoughts On Being Slandered

  Pale Face, Forked Tongue, Wasichu* i.e. Fat Taker: Thoughts On Being Slandered (Prepared for, though not delivered, at a gathering at First Congregational Church in Berkeley, California). April 2022. ©2022 by Alice Walker It has occurred to me that the best way to engage the charge of anti-Semitism is to confront it in a public forum.  This is such a space.  Thank you for being here and please do me the courtesy of listening as if our lives depend on what we share; they might.  For we are livi...

Happy Birthday Mumia Abu-Jamal/ April 24

Feliz Cumpleaños Mumia Abu-Jamal/ Abril 24 Happy Birthday Mumia Abu-Jamal/ April 24 What have you given us to accompany our despair? A life lived to the full In a cage too small for it. A teaching. A miracle. Accept, please, our gratitude. Know as well our sorrow That we could not get you out. Deepest bows. ~aw   Feliz Cumpleaños Mumia Abu-Jamal/ Abril 24   ¿Qué nos has ofrecido para acompañar nuestro desespero? Una vida vivida a plenitud en una celda demasiado chica para ella. Una enseñanza. Un...

MY RENEGADE GARDEN IN CAREYES

MI RENEGADO JARDÍN EN CAREYES MY RENEGADE GARDEN IN CAREYES (Photo by Manuel Vejar Castenada) I Had Only A Month ©2022 by Alice Walker (Especially for GFB who would have been appalled.) I had only a month some rocks some compost and a trowel that had seen better decades; still, my heart was longing to grow something for the sheer magic of it. The rocks were heavy, the men strong who came to help; the seeds brave. Thank you Mother for all simple and satisfying things. For gardens made from what’s...

Standing in the Ring of Life: Pub day April 12th 2022

April 12, 2022 Dream Team: Valerie and Evelyn and Ali Gathering Blossoms Under Fire Photo by Jean Weisinger Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: Oakland Boathouse Celebration of Being.

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, The Journals of Alice Walker | Edited by Valerie Boyd

  By Alice Walker Edited by Valerie Boyd  Publisher Simon and Schuster Alice Walker encourages you to purchase her books from locally owned bookstores. (Map of independent bookstores) About The Book From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women’s activis...

Ketanji Brown Jackson ~ Celebrating her nomination U.S. Supreme Court!

                     Image source: MoveOn ~ Celebrating the nomination of Judge Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court!

For All Beloveds Born in the Willing Springtime of March!

For All Beloveds Born in the Willing Springtime of March!     Photo by Alice walker 2022

Code Pink – Open letter: Solidarity with Russian anti-war protestors

Carta abierta: Solidaridad con los protestantes antibelicistas rusos – por Code Pink   Code Pink – Open letter: Solidarity with Russian anti-war protestors Source credit for this open letter: Code Pink ”Add your name to the open letter from women, and other feminists (including men), in solidarity with Russian anti-war protestors. Dear Russian anti-war protestors,  We, women and other feminists (including men) of the world, express our solidarity with you as you protest the devastating invasion ...

Song For All Beings, Jennifer Berezan et al

As Bad(d) As It Gets: Valerie and Her Sisters

Valerie Boyd, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Ti Walker, Alice Walker, Hidden Sister, Deborah Plant, Evelyn White, Diana Young, Joan Miura.  Hard Times Require Furious Dancing Celebration:   Oakland Boathouse Autumn 2019. Photo by Jean Weisinger.