...Sapphire Copyright © 2008 by Smith College 2008 SAPPHIRE Don'tHanBUp I'm listening to the Orlons "Don't Hang Up" fierce rhythmic growl from ghetto girls in sequins. Crystals, galaxies oflight, & on the wall behind the wheelchair are five clocks. Fierce ghetto vinyl groove. I'm sitting...

...Anaya McMurray Abstract “Black Muslim women and hip-hop? . . . real Muslims don't listen to hip-hop.” For many it is almost unfathomable that black Muslim women would have any involvement with hip-hop music. While several scholars have explored the connections between hip-hop and Islam, hip-hop...

... they hadseenon Viacom-ownedTV. I said hip hop hip hippety hip hop and you don't stop don't stop don't stop the onward march of new millennium protesters fighting WTO NATO Haliburton and UN incompetence in the face of femicide, genocides and the military industrial complex Are we still perplexed by this new hip...

... said that, I think that those who write about transnational civil society sometimes paint too rosy a picture of its existence and its virtues. If a transnational civil society exists-and I think of it as being immanent rather than fully realized- I don't think it has or can overcome tensions between...

... or a close friend doesn't die climbing our limbs JESSICA CARE MOORE WE WANT OUR BODIES BACK 231 attempting to simply grow outside the gritty soil they were planted. II. i put a spell on you holly hobby ovens girl scout cookies & Barbie dolls don't prepare our revolutionary daughters born with capes & wings...

..." "We have children and our life is like that." (B-4) "If you don't have children, they say 'Oh, you're barren (HR-2) "West-Indian culture they call you names if you don't have children but what could you do? You don't have any other choice, you can't go kill yourself so you make the best of it." (CP-2...

... regret it because I know it was rare. It's been in the back of my mind all of my life to trace down what on earth this was. ] I still have this idea of Madeline Tilghman, who I don't know at all but there she was as an example of a way to be American and black American and also be someone who...

... students, "Oh you don't know who these people are but I know who they are," so there is a context which is not there in the second edition. Was that a conscious choice? MEENA ALEXANDER: Yes,yes. I think your student put it rather well; I said to him, "Why do you think I left out that first bit...

... as Hispanic, Latina, or cubana,etc., but we refuse to be Hispanic as a company identity. We are not trying to marginalize anyone, but we feel strongly about Latina/hispana. We've had a lot of conversations as a group about this issue. We try to complicate it, we don't want Latina to mean a thing. It is always...

... currently holds the distinguished position of Franklin Professor ofEnglish and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia. MARGARET c RU MPTO N: What was the first thing you ever wrote that made you think, "I can be a writer?" Ju DI TH o RT I z co FER: I don't recall having that response to my work...

...Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Copyright © 2005 by Smith College 2005 HONOREE FANONNE JEFFERS dirtysouthmoon1 brothers sheis rounderthan themoon andfar morefaithji.tl. --Lucille Clifton the moon is here the moon don't believe the sun arriving for its own sake thrall of nostalgia beating out out spot...

... Western name, I thought I'd like to have it, so I told my friends at school that I was going to change my name to Diana and they should call me that from now on. "But you don't look like a Diana," Roberta told me. "What do I look like then?" "I don't know. Like a Kadeeja, I guess." My father is a mechanic...

... River Collective; I don't know if that has been discussed today-I imagine perhaps that it has-but that is why the late twentiethcentury black feminist organization in Boston chose the name of the river where she planned and led a military action during the Civil War that liberated at least 750 slaves...

... here to support people who are victimized. That doesn't mean we ourselves aren't suffering, but as a women's organization we came to give people who don't have support a little courage, helping them live. Our organization came to help people with health. We had something like 174 babies born...

... the competitive edge, which I think is representative of women in general. My grandmother, for example, not liking the fact that her daughters-in-law would say, "I'm not cooking on Saturday, I don't cook. Yonococinoenel.findesemana". 3 "iC6moqueno concinan?4"It's not liking the fact the women after them have more...

... for us or brought us along with them when they came to another country and our migration, our "success" in the new place, immediately became part of a dream that they had in mind for their future as well as ours. There are several types of migrants, of course. Exiles don't choose their migration...

... would sit, bend my body toward the floor, as my mother with a coin in her hand, would gha. I remember that it sounded like that across my bones: ghagha gha. Like a deep echo in my ears. It wasn't the same in English tongue: scrape scrape scrape. It didn't feel like a scrape. Some things just don't...

..., chaos. And, I looked at my dad. I couldn't keep my eyes open. He say, "Youdon't need any help!My son, I mean, your brotherst,hey have to work;you're not going to pay their bills." And then, I was like, "I just want some sleep." "She don't want you here!" [father talking to mother], just because I say I...

... of Peace c Y NTH I A: For me, it's easier to think of peace as a continuum with war. I know that's rather a perilous thought, because "international relations," the formal field of peace and war studies, has got a nasty way of representing war as inevitable, and I don't mean to go along that track. But I...