Pub Date : 2019-04-15DOI: 10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042423.003.0007
Susie L. Hoeller
For Alice Walker, a womanist is “not a separatist.” This chapter discusses the experience of an otherwise privileged white woman exiled from her home by the separatist Parti Quebecois coming to power in Quebec, Canada, in 1976. Then and now, the separatists believe the only way to preserve French-Canadian culture is to exclude and marginalize English speakers. They have successfully passed many discriminatory and xenophobic laws to this end. The author shares how the exile experience influenced her not only to become a lawyer advocating for refugees forced to cross borders because of oppression in their homelands but to self-identify as a womanist.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-15DOI: 10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042423.003.0015
M. Iverson
Writing about his personal journey toward feminist and womanist manhood, the author of this chapter revisits his relationships with family members. He records his experience of “patriarchal masculinity and heterosexist battering abuse.” The author attributes his pro-feminist/womanist identity to his mother and what she taught him about her life as a black woman. He states that she would be the first woman to introduce him to the meaning of feminism. As he continues his narrative toward self-transformation—he shares how his college education and his work as a professor and activist in Labor Studies would transport him to a deeper understanding his mother’s life and that of other black/women of color. The author refers to them his “other mothers and soul sisters.” Ultimately, he aims to “challenge males of all ages and (of all races and ethnicities) to open themselves up to the self-transforming power of feminism and womanism.”
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Pub Date : 2019-04-15DOI: 10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042423.003.0003
Kendra N. Bryant
In this chapter, the author bears witness to the life-changing effects of the self-liberating theory and practice of women of color feminism. By way of Alice Walker, she honors and describes the pedagogical approaches, as well as the spirituality, of four professors whose womanist attitudes—which were implied through their required reading assignments and classroom discussions—informed and liberated her personhood. Written in an epistolary style, her essay is a narration of her experiences in each of her professors’ graduate studies classrooms. She also includes original poems inspired by both classroom readings and her professors’ humanity in order to illustrate her transformation. Clearly, as she writes from a deeply heartfelt location, her “professors” of womanism made a life-changing impression on her.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-15DOI: 10.5622/illinois/9780252042423.003.0005
Ylce Irizarry
This chapter narrates how familial, social, and educational institutions have doctored the author’s Latina voice. Using autocritography, the author charts how engagements of feminism by cultural theorists Gloria Anzaldúa, Audre Lorde, Cherríe Moraga, Chela Sandoval, and Alice Walker helped her deconstruct and respond to multiple forms of racism: personal, institutional, and intra-ethnic. The essay describes the author’s miseducation: a fraught process of being strategically silent and vocal within academic spaces. Closing with a reflection on the role of womanism in her education, the essayist describes pedagogical practices that help students understand how their voices have been doctored and how they can rewrite the narratives defining their belonging.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-15DOI: 10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042423.003.0010
Dora Arreola
Validating the practice of art for the empowerment of female identity and contesting borders of gender and sexual identities, in this chapter, the author describes the collaborative process of Mujeres en Ritual Danza-Teatro, a cross-border, all-women dance-theatre company, which she founded in 1999 in Tijuana, Mexico. Rooted in ritual and contemporary techniques of physical theatre, the work of Mujeres en Ritual explores the limits of gender, taboo sexuality, and culture in the border region. It examines the exploitation of women’s bodies as an extension of U.S.-Mexico relations and political economy. Through a community-based process with women on both sides of the border, the company experiments with gender transgression and transformation to arrive at transgenero (“transgender” and “trans-genre”) performance.
在这一章中，作者验证了艺术实践对女性身份的赋权和对性别和性身份边界的争论，并描述了Mujeres en Ritual Danza-Teatro的合作过程，这是一个跨国界的全女性舞蹈剧院公司，她于1999年在墨西哥提华纳成立。Mujeres en ritual的作品植根于仪式和当代肢体戏剧的技术，探讨了边境地区的性别限制、禁忌性行为和文化。它考察了作为美墨关系和政治经济延伸的对女性身体的剥削。通过一个以社区为基础的过程，在边界两边的女性中，公司尝试性别越界和转变，以达到跨性别(“跨性别”和“跨类型”)的表现。
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Pub Date : 2019-04-15DOI: 10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042423.003.0014
Rudolph P. Byrd
The author of this chapter writes about his childhood experience of domestic violence and the impact his mother’s life experiences would have upon him. In it he recalls one particular moment while witnessing his mother being physically abused by his father. Taking a bold stand of resistance, he remembers as an eleven-year-old boy “from that day to the last day of his [father’s] life . . . [he] would be at war with [him].” Yet, as the son of an abusive parent, the author states that this event would mark the beginning of his “commitment to feminism,” a stand against domestic violence. His mother became the first model of feminist identity in how she viewed herself, her independence, and the ways she maintained her family’s home. In sum, she taught him how to be a feminist. Additionally, as a college student, the author would come to read writings by noted pro-feminist female and male authors of varying races. He would be particularly influenced by the lives and works of Alice Walker, as well as Beverly Guy-Sheftall and bell hooks.
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The coauthors of this chapter write about having obtained a grant from the Arcus Foundation to conceptualize a radical project to advance the equality of black GLBT students. They titled the project: “Facilitating Campus Climates of Pluralism, Inclusivity, and Progressive Change at HBCUs.” Writing about their vision of it in this chapter, the coauthors share the historically groundbreaking plan for the work they began together in 2006 to challenge “historical black colleges and universities” (HBCUs) in the United States to eradicate heteronormative and homophobic ideas of black identity. As an “introduction” to the aim and goals they sought to accomplish, these two esteemed black feminist scholars in women’s studies connect their project to Walker’s womanist concept of love for all LGBT black “Folk.”
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Pub Date : 2019-04-15DOI: 10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042423.003.0011
Andrea Assaf
The author of this poem demonstrates the artistic, living power of empathetic imagination. “Soy Mujer Cuando . . . A Collective Poem” is a poetic excerpt from the theatre work Fronteras Desviadas/Deviant Borders. Bilingual in its conception and written in collaboration with the acting company known as Mujeres en Ritual Danza-Teatro, the author composed the poem in a community-based process with women on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border in 2004. Conceptually, Soy Mujer Cuando comprises three parts as a recurrent thread throughout the poem. The first two parts incorporate the multiple voices of women from the community and the ensemble of collaborating artists.
这首诗的作者展示了移情想象力的艺术和生命力。“豆奶关……《集体之诗》是戏剧作品《越界》(Fronteras Desviadas/Deviant Borders)的诗选。这首诗是作者在2004年与美墨边境两侧的妇女一起以社区为基础创作的，构思为双语，并与名为Mujeres en Ritual Danza-Teatro的表演公司合作创作的。从概念上讲，《大豆之恋》由三部分组成，贯穿整首诗。前两个部分结合了来自社区的女性和合作艺术家的多种声音。
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Pub Date : 2019-04-15DOI: 10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042423.003.0004
Gary L. Lemons
Narrating his journey toward becoming a black male professor of feminism, in this chapter the author identifies himself as a “black male outsider.” He writes about how his study writings by black/feminists of color helped him to accept his difference as a male who grew up on the margins of the “black community” in which he lived. Not only does he credit Alice Walker’s idea of womanism as personally and politically self-transformative for him, he also acknowledges bell hooks’s belief that men can be feminist comrades. In the chapter, he focuses on experiences teaching course-work on “writings by radical black/women of color” in departments of English and women’s studies at the university where he teaches. He employs autocritography as a genre that interweaves memoir with social criticism to express his commitment to the practice of womanist pedagogy.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-15DOI: 10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042423.003.0009
Atika Chaudhary
This chapter focuses on the importance of coming to consciousness through the practice of woman-of-color feminist and womanist ideologies in and outside the academe. The struggle for voice and visibility starts with the personal responsibility of coming to consciousness and coming to voice and the urgent need to establish coalitions across all classes, genders, sexualities, and ethnicities. By blending the critical and the autobiographical, this chapter spotlights the significance of bridging the gap between the personal and the academic while questioning politics of skin color against the backdrop of white supremacy.
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