Movement in Black

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Author: Pat Parker

ISBN-10: 1563411083

ISBN-13: 9781563411083

Category: African American Gays & Lesbians - Fiction

Pat Parker - that revolutionary, raw, and as they used to say, "right-on sister" - would be celebrating her fifty-fifth birthday in 1999 had she not died of breast cancer ten years ago.. "She wrote about gut issues: the lives of ordinary Black people, violence, loving women, the legacy of her African American heritage, being queer. Both in her personal life and as a political activist she linked the struggles for racial, gender, sexual, and class equality long before it was PC to do so.....

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Pat Parker - that revolutionary, raw, and as they used to say, "right-on sister" - would be celebrating her fifty-fifth birthday in 1999 had she not died of breast cancer ten years ago.. "She wrote about gut issues: the lives of ordinary Black people, violence, loving women, the legacy of her African American heritage, being queer. Both in her personal life and as a political activist she linked the struggles for racial, gender, sexual, and class equality long before it was PC to do so.. "This new, expanded edition of Movement in Black - containing previously unpublished work - honors Pat Parker and calls attention to the significance of her contributions.Venus MagazineThis a revision of Parker's 1978 Firebrand classic. The book is both celebratory and commemorative. This volume gives an opportunity for both those who were around the first time and those who are new to her work to experience and enjoy this activit's work.

Introduction15Celebrations/Remembrances/TributesDonna Allegra25Angela Y. Davis28Toi Derricotte29Jewelle Gomez30Audre Lorde32Michelle Parkerson34Ann Allen Shockley37Barbara Smith39Pamela Sneed41Evelyn C. White43Goat Child49For Donna61Sometimes My Husband Acts Just Like a Man63Fuller Brush Day64To See a Man Cry66You Can't Be Sure of Anything These Days67Exodus68A Moment Left Behind69From Deep Within70My Hands Are Big and Rough73Child of Myself76Brother77Have You Ever Tried to Hide?78The Best Nightmares79Dialogue80Desire82For Michael on His Third Birthday83A Family Tree84Sunday85Pied Piper87Conflagration89Where Do You Go to Become a Non-citizen?90Don't Let the Fascists Speak92To My Vegetarian Friend97For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to Be My Friend99Tour America!100Talk Is Cheap101The What Liberation Front?102Snatches of a Day104Where Will You Be?106Questions111It's a Simple Dream115Movement in Black119Move in Darkness129My Lover Is a Woman130Cop-out134For Willyce135Best Friends136Pit Stop137Sobriety141For the Straight Folks Who Don't Mind Gays But Wish They Weren't So BLATANT142My Lady Ain't No Lady144Non-monogamy Is a Pain in the Butt145Language149Let Me150Solitary Lover151I Kumquat You152A Small Contradiction153I Wish That I Could Hate You154Break-up155Sunshine156I Have157On Jealousy159Reality160Metamorphosis161Para Maria Sandra162Gente164Group166The Law169Womanslaughter172Autumn Morning181Yes Ma'am182There Is a Woman in This Town184Great God189Between the Light190Sublimation191Massage192Reputation194Progeny195It's Not So Bad199For Audre201Funny207Epilogue215

\ Venus MagazineThis a revision of Parker's 1978 Firebrand classic. The book is both celebratory and commemorative. This volume gives an opportunity for both those who were around the first time and those who are new to her work to experience and enjoy this activit's work.\ \