... arts. The author describes radical interdisciplinarity as building on the hybrid methodologies of women of color authors such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Audre Lorde, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Michelle Cliff, who often combined memoir with fiction or poetry. The essay itself includes examples of radical...

... in the colonial lore of female shapeshifters and sorceresses provides a counterreading to the beautiful and subservient woman of color of colonial fantasies. By situating West Indian femininity in a genealogy of supernatural camouflage, subterfuge, and transformation, Capécia and Césaire undermine misogynist...

...Sreerekha Sathi Abstract This essay is a testimonial of the author’s experiences, memories, and reflections about becoming a person/woman of color, discovering, and unearthing the meanings of racialization, white privilege, and white supremacy in the contemporary United States. The author gives...

...Brooke Lober Abstract In this interview, the writer, activist, and well-known woman of color feminist and participant in grassroots left movements Aurora Levins Morales explores the action and language of participatory social change, considered through the lens of her social location and experience...

... Eastern Europe and/or are men of color. The issue of sex trafficking is portrayed simplistically, in black and white terms, with a clear bad guy, innocent victim, and savior. Often these films focus on the extreme, and least common, form of trafficking: a minor being abducted off the street...

... and belonging, as well as analyzing the ejects of how queer, Black, transnational sharing of stories promotes survival and activism. Utilizing a Black feminist framework, this paper seeks to interrogate homeplace for queer people of color, as well as the spaces where activism lives, how it is enacted, and what...

...Judy Tzu-Chun Wu Abstract This article focuses on the antinuclear and antimilitarism politics of Patsy Takemoto Mink (1927–2002), the first Japanese American female lawyer in Hawai‘i, the first woman of color to become a U.S. congressional representative, and the namesake for Title IX. During...

..., is responsible for any form of violation she might experience; rather, as a young woman of color who is likely to be rendered invisible due to structural racism, recognizing that visibility matters is an important sign of self-assertion. Although “Born Bad” does not contain images of windows...

... by Amber Jamilla Musser ( 2014 ) and Ariane Cruz ( 2016 ), has been construed as antifeminist, particularly when performed by a woman of color. Submitting to another is often read as denying individual agency in favor of often problematic hierarchy. And yet, as Musser ( 2014 : 3) describes, psychoanalytic...

... in policy and practices that have evolved out of a system ofinstitutional racism, classism, and sexism that invariably leads to inequitable structures like the tracking of students of color from low income and working class communities into high schools with the least experienced and lowest paid teachers...

... University Press . hooks bell . 1989 . “ From Black is a Woman’s Color .” Callaloo 39 ( spring ): 382 – 88 . India.Arie . 2006 . “ I Am Not My Hair .” Testimony, Vol. 1: Life and Relationship . Motown/Universal Records. Compact disc. Johnson E. Patrick , ed. 2016 . No Tea...

... and repelled at the same time" (Guy-Sheftall 2002, 23). In Brazil, the contours of this framework is formed by the discourses of mesti{agem2 andthe myth of racial democracy that creates sociocultural categories for black women within the color spectrum-a phenomenon I call, inspired by bell hooks...

..., the following set of questions: What does it mean to identify politically as a Woman of Color? How does the model-minority racial project affect our desires to identify as Women of Color? How does it affect our subject-formation? Why do some of us both want to become Women of Color and fear our legitimacy...

... print. Both editors believed that Third Woman Press, run by women of color, was the best place to print the revised third edition. It is unfortunate that Third Women Press, founded in 1979 by Norma Alarcon, has become virtually the only surviving press in the U.S. from the 1970s and early 1980s period...

... investigates how the modern idea of sex also functions as skin technology. The politics of women of color are then explored, interpreting the relation between sex and gender as the “sex-skin/gender-mask structure,” isomorphic to the Fanonian black-skin/white-mask structure. The article further engages...

... were shown (and seen) had to be It's the one you'll giveyour young constantly examined and re-examined. daughter to read I married the Suddenly questions such as: "Should the man who is perfect and drivesa masked woman playing the sex worker white car and works for the good be white or a woman of color...

... productively to re-center whiteness and thereby reproduce feminist thought as a discourse that speaks of a monolithic woman.7 If not examined more deeply, such scripts of white privilege can fail to redirect white feminists' empathetic attention toward feminists of color, who feel the effects of these scripts...

... on the balcony of the upscale Drayton Hotel. When Clare first enters, Irene notices a "sweetly scented woman in a fluttering dress of green chiffon whose mingled pattern ofnarcissuses, jonquils, and hyacinths was a reminder of pleasantly chill spring days" (148). The correspondence between scent and color...

... child, while her husband sits behind her, his left hand firmly clasping her shoulder. Behind the couple, three women console a seated woman with lines of grief or age etched on her forehead. One only needs to compare the glowing skin color of the suckling mother and the umber of the grieving woman...

... 1995), as these third-wave anthologies suggest. Post-civil rights women of color and white women learned that the universalization of women was an inadequate approach to the feminist movement. "Woman," as we learned and often experienced, did not fit the history of oppression that women of color...