Luke’s Reviews > Daughters of Africa > Status Update

Uh, GR? That work you have as authored by a white boy? Guess again.

Ayse Bircan's so cool. I need to track down more works by/about her, as well as works concerned with black Turkish people in general.

'The fear of exposure, the fear that one's deepest emotions and innermost thoughts will be dismissed as mere nonsense, felt by so many young girls keeping diaries, holding and hiding speech, seems to me now one of the barriers that women have always needed and still need to destroy so that we are no longer pushed into secrecy or silence.'

-bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist — Thinking Black

For way too many authors without proper profiles on this site it's like "Oh my fucking god Goodreads just how far up your ass is your head anyway."

'I do not know what has happened to God. He is fastidious. He fled at the moment that I smoothed the wet black hair before wrapping it up. I do not think he will come back.'

-Zoë Wicomb, You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town

Librarying, librarying, librarying away. Casa de las Américas Prize, anyone?

If anyone hears somebody blathering on about how much they just adore mixed race couples/babies/people, slap them for me if you'd be so kind.

When the feminist historians of the twenty-first century attempt to recapitulate the third wave, will they ignore the momentous contributions of Afro-American women, who have been leaders and activists in movements often confined to women of color, but whose accomplishments have invariably advanced the cause of white women as well?

Agh. It's just my luck that I pick up 'So Long a Letter' the day I reach the excerpt of it in this. Ah well. Guess I'll be reading some of it twice in a shorter space of time than I imagined.

Works like these make me glad I'm a GR librarian cause I can ADD ALL THE AUTHORS *____*