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How We Get Free. Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Haymarket Books, Chicago, IL, (2017-)2026, Updated 2nd Edition
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How We Get Free. Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Haymarket Books, Chicago, IL, (2017-)2026, Updated 2nd Edition
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One of the most dangerous and erroneous concepts that separatists have put forward is that other oppression, in addition to sexism are attributed to men only. Some separatists believe that although women are racist, when men disappear and no longer rule, racism will not be a problem. I think that this is one of the most racists aspects of [their ideology] because it does not recognize the racism that women, including lesbians, have.
 - Beverly Smith (b. December 16, 1946)
She is a Black lesbian feminist, health advocate, writer, academic, theorist and activist who is also the twin sister of writer, publisher, activist and academic Barbara Smith. Beverly Smith is an instructor of Women's Health at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She was one of three authors of the famous Combahee River Collective Statement. Her essays and articles on racism, feminism, identity politics and women's health have been extensively published in the United States.
Check out this virtual launch event for what looks like an amazing book!
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
Friday, February 26, at 7:30pm EST
from Charis Books’ website:
“Charis welcomes Briona Simone Jones for a launch of Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought with Spelman College's Holly Smith and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, and contributors Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Bettina Love, and Cheryl Clarke. A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thought by Black Lesbian writers, in the tradition of The New Press's perennial seller Words of Fire. This event is co-hosted by the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History. This event takes place on crowdcast, Charis' virtual event platform. Register here.
African American lesbian writers and theorists have made extraordinary contributions to feminist theory, activism, and writing. Mouths of Rain, the companion anthology to Beverly Guy-Sheftall's classic Words of Fire, traces the long history of intellectual thought produced by Black Lesbian writers, spanning the nineteenth century through the twenty-first century.
Using "Black Lesbian" as a capacious signifier, Mouths of Rain includes writing by Black women who have shared intimate and loving relationships with other women, as well as Black women who see bonding as mutual, Black women who have self-identified as lesbian, Black women who have written about Black Lesbians, and Black women who theorize about and see the word lesbian as a political descriptor that disrupts and critiques capitalism, heterosexism, and heteropatriarchy. Taking its title from a poem by Audre Lorde, Mouths of Rain addresses pervasive issues such as misogynoir and anti-blackness while also attending to love, romance, "coming out," and the erotic.”
The contributor list looks amazing:
Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, Bettina Love, Dionne Brand, Cheryl Clarke, Cathy J. Cohen, Angelina Weld Grimke, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Audre Lorde, Dawn Lundy Martin, Pauli Murray, Michelle Parkerson, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Alice Walker, Jewelle Gomez.
You can preorder the book from a feminist bookstore here, and again register for the launch event here!
There are so many parts of our Black identity that we no longer get a chance to exercise. - Beverly Smith (b. December 16, 1946) (on the right)
She is a Black lesbian feminist, health advocate, writer, academic, theorist and activist who is also the twin sister of writer, publisher, activist and academic Barbara Smith. Beverly Smith is an instructor of Women's Health at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She was one of three authors of the famous Combahee River Collective Statement. Her essays and articles on racism, feminism, identity politics and women's health have been extensively published in the United States.
You know one of the things that I've felt for a long time being involved in the women's movement, is that there is so much about Black identity that doesn't get called into practice. - Beverly Smith (b. December 16, 1946)
She is a Black lesbian feminist, health advocate, writer, academic, theorist and activist who is also the twin sister of writer, publisher, activist and academic Barbara Smith. Beverly Smith is an instructor of Women's Health at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She was one of three authors of the famous Combahee River Collective Statement. Her essays and articles on racism, feminism, identity politics and women's health have been extensively published in the United States.
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My perception about racial oppression and class oppression is that it's something that starts at day one.  - Beverly Smith (b. December 16, 1946)
She is a Black feminist health advocate,writer, academic, theorist and activist who is also the twin sister of writer, publisher, activist and academic Barbara Smith. Beverly Smith is an instructor of Women's Health at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She was one of three authors of the famous Combahee River Collective Statement, "one of the most widely read discussions of Black feminism," which was developed by several members of the National Black Feminist Organization in 1977. Her essays and articles on racism, feminism, identity politics and women's health have been extensively published in the United States.
(first from the left)
You know one of the things that I've felt for a long time being involved in the women's movement, is that there is so much about Black identity that doesn't get called into practice.
Beverly Smith (b. December 16, 1946)
She is a Black lesbian feminist, health advocate, writer, academic, theorist and activist who is also the twin sister of writer, publisher, activist and academic Barbara Smith. Beverly Smith is an instructor of Women's Health at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She was one of three authors of the famous Combahee River Collective Statement. Her essays and articles on racism, feminism, identity politics and women's health have been extensively published in the United States.
My perception about racial oppression and class oppression is that it's something that starts at day one.
Beverly Smith (b. December 16, 1946)
She is a Black lesbian feminist, health advocate, writer, academic, theorist and activist who is also the twin sister of writer, publisher, activist and academic Barbara Smith. Beverly Smith is an instructor of Women's Health at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She was one of three authors of the famous Combahee River Collective Statement. Her essays and articles on racism, feminism, identity politics and women's health have been extensively published in the United States.