[VIRTUAL] This Bridge Called My Back Turns 40!
Las Maestras Center at UC Santa Barbara Celebrates the 40th Year and 5th Edition of This Bridge Called My Back.
Date: Friday, December 3, 2021 at 8:00 - 10:30pm ET
Location: Virtual via Zoom
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa.
Come celebrate with Las Maestras, Bridge contributors, and virtual participants near and far!
Throw a Friday night party from 8 pm to 10:30 pm (EST) on December 3, 2021 in your living rooms, at the community center, with a women of color reading group.
All are welcome to this inter-generational homage to sister-mother-grandmother-ancestor writers, artists and activists. Presente!
The book centers on the experiences of women of color and emphasizes the points of what is now called intersectionality within their multiple identities, challenging white feminists who made claims to solidarity based on sisterhood. Writings in the anthology, along with works by other prominent feminists of color, call for a greater prominence within feminism for race-related subjectivities, and ultimately laid the foundation for third wave feminism. It has become "one of the most cited books in feminist theorizing."