#beverlysmith

@quiltbev 🙌🏾 All in all, my familiarity with American’s Southern social expressions, and my personal experiences greatly impacts my works. My quilts “Cherry Picking” and “Too Much Sugar for a Dime” were inspired by my mother’s use of Southern expressions. I heard her saying them and she heard her grandmother saying them during the Great Depression in Barnwell, South Carolina. ⠀ When my mother would say “that’s too much sugar for a dime”, I had no idea what that meant. However, I could tell by the tone in her voice she was not having it! #SupportBlackArt #BeverlySmith #QuiltBev #BlackArtist #WomenArtists #artquilts #fiberart https://www.instagram.com/p/CD_4f97BEag/?igshid=7cjflxpbm15w

@quiltbev 👠👠 “Mom’s Red Heels” is from my quilt series Child’s play. I have always used family photographs to inspire my quilt stories. I also refurbish, construct and deconstruct vintage quilts, which is what my grandmother did to her everyday household quilts...not as an art-form but out of necessity. #supportblackart #BeverlySmith #artquilts #fiberarts #chloefinearts #blackartinamerica https://www.instagram.com/p/B5_WsMEBCOf/?igshid=otnn4wchvy33

If you are having trouble wrapping your mind around the recent outpouring of criticism of white feminism, you may want to pick up a copy of HOW WE GET FREE. This remarkable book tracks the development of the Combahee River Collective, a Black feminist lesbian organization active in Boston from 1974 to 1980. The text includes the Combahee River Collective statement, a powerful document from which the phrase "identity politics" originates and which also articulated the notion of intersectionality years before Kimberlé Crenshaw came along. Also included are interviews with the statement's three authors, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, and Demita Frazier, as well as #BlackLivesMatter co-founder Alicia Garza, and historian and activist Barbara Ransby. All of this situates the CRC statement in a rich historical and theoretical framework crucial to understanding the development and continued importance of the Black feminist movement. Highly recommended! ❤️ #unabridgedbookoftheweek #blacklivesmatter #combaheerivercollective #keeangayamahttataylor #barbarasmith #beverlysmith #demitafrazier #aliciagarza #barbararansby (at Unabridged Bookstore)