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This book is everything, absolutely exhilarating! Cooper‘s passion for black women & girls radiates throughout this book. It‘s hard not to have your blood pressure go up a notch and your heart race a little faster while reading this book. I screamed out loud, laughed, said amen & preach Brittney! She spares the feelings of no one & I fully appreciate her take it or leave it unapologetic #blackfeminist truth telling #spinesvines

Mosaic Magazine Interview with J. California Cooper https://mosaicmagazine.org/j-california-cooper-interview/#.WR...

#blackwomen #uk #blackfeminist #feminism #writer #author #black

"Your verses, my dear, are real poetry. They have..."the authentic fire." Archibald Grimke to his daughter, Angelina Weld Grimke

I'm sitting in the parking lot waiting for my gf to get out of class. She dislocated her left shoulder and it's finals week, in a week. Can't drive and only using one arm, being in pain while trying to study for finals ? #blackfeminist #NationalPoetryMonth #blackwomen #poetry

Brotherhood ~ Georgia Douglas Johnson

"Shall we not make
The bleak way for each other's sake
Less rugged and unkind?"

http://www.thespectrum.com/story/opinion/blogs/educationitself/2015/09/12/poem-d... #NationalPoetryMonth #blackfeminist #feminism #poetry

"Without women writers, the Harlem Renaissance would have been a bleaker place. Though not blindingly vivid, the color they added completed the total spectrum." #blackfeminist #blackwomen #feminism #woc

Watching Needful Things and catching up.

"Directly comparing Johnson, Dunbar-Nelson and Grimke with male poets...would force them into a competition whose rules were formulated without them in mind...both subtle and blatant, women were penalized for their gender." #blackfeminist #blackwomen #feminism #queer #woc

"...Zora Neale Hurston used false birthdays, she was actually an additional decade older..." #blackfeminist #queer #poetry #history

One of my mentors in my head was honored for #NationalPoetryMonth. Check out the whole poem here: http://bit.ly/2oF0z7d

My favorite line~"most would not connect the floorboards of her porch to the roots that they remember when she sits"

#blackfeminist #blackwomen #feminism #poetry

I got a few books in and couldn't decide where to start. Since it's #NationalPoetryMonth, I picked the book on Harlem Renaissance and #blackwomen that write #poetry. #blackfeminist #feminism #writer.

The images at the bottom remind me of Kara Walker's silhouettes.

#NationalPoetryMonth #black #blackwomen #feminism #woc #writer #poetry #blackfeminist