The echoing Ida collection / edited by Cynthia R. Greenlee, Kemi Alabi, Janna Zinzi ; foreword by Michelle Duster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forward Together (Nonprofit organization). Echoing Ida, author.

Contributor:

Greenlee, Cynthia R., editor.

Alabi, Kemi, editor.

Zinzi, Janna, editor.

Duster, Michelle, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors.

American literature.

American literature--Women authors.

American literature--21st century.

Gender-nonconforming people's writings, American.

Physical Description:

xix, 369 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First Feminist Press edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2021.

Summary:

"Founded in 2012, Echoing Ida is a writing collective of Black women and nonbinary writers who-like their foremother Ida B. Wells-Barnett-believe the "way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." Their community reporting spans a wide variety of topics: reproductive justice and abortion politics; new and necessary definitions of family; trans visibility; stigma against Black motherhood; Black mental health; and more. The Echoing Ida Collection gathers the best of Echoing Ida for the first time, and features a foreword by Michelle Duster, activist and great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells-Barnett"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: THE STRUCTURE AND THE STRUGGLE

Introduction / Kemi Alabi

The Violence Happening in Ferguson Is More Than Physical / Alexandra Moffett-Bateau

Powerless in the Face of White Supremacy and a Gun / Bianca Campbell

Healing in the Midst of Tragedy: How Can Black Folks Keep Surviving in the Face of Constant Trauma? / Quita Tinsley

What Black Lives Matter Organizers Are Doing to Fight White Supremacy at Every Level / Shanelle Matthews

Urban and Rural America Are Connected by Economic Refugees Like Me / Erin Malone

Equal Pay Day for (Some) African American Women / Alexandra Moffett-Bateau

#UsToo: We Must Expand the Conversation on Sexual Violence / Raquel Willis

The School-to-Prison Pipeline Affects Girls of Color but Reform Efforts Pass Them By / Ruth Jeannoel

The Right to (Black) Life / Renee Bracey Sherman

BIRTH JUSTICE AND YES, THAT INCLUDES ABORTION

Introduction / Cynthia R. Greenlee

Who Should You Listen to on Abortion? People Who've Had Them / Renee Bracey Sherman

The Road to Roe: Paved with Bodies of Women of Color and the Legal Activism of African Americans / Cynthia R. Greenlee

Whitewashing Reproductive Rights: How Black Activists Get Erased / Renee Bracey Sherman

What My First Pregnancy Taught Me about Birth Justice / Ruth Jeannoel

Serena Williams Could Insist That Doctors Listen to Her. Most Black Women Can't / Elizabeth Dawes Gay

Choice under Fire: issues burrounamg African American Reproductive Rights / Renee Bracey Sherman

The Story That's Taken Ten Years to Tell: On Abortion, Race, and the Power of Story / Shanelle Matthews

On "Commonsense Childbirth": A Q&A with Midwife Jennie Joseph / Elizabeth Dawes Gay

Insurance Coverage of Doula Care Would Benefit Patients and Service Providers Alike / Elizabeth Dawes Gay

The Largely Forgotten History of Abortion Billboard Advertising

and What Pro-Choice Advocates Can Learn from It / Cynthia R. Greenlee

Want to Win on Abortion? Talk about It as an Issue of Love, Compassion / Yamani Hernandez

FAMILY MATTERS

A (Midwestern) Black Lesbian's Reflections on 20 Years of Being "Family" / Jasmine Burnett

Stigma around "Nontraditional" Families Won't End with Assisted Reproductive Technology / Bianca Campbell

Trans Women Are Women. This Isn't a Debate / Raquel Willis

On Being a Proud Teen Mom: I Don't Hate Myself as Much as You Wish I Did / Gloria Malone

For My Mother: A Day without Cancer / Cynthia R. Greenlee

I'll Always Love Big Poppa: How Biggie Smalls Helped Me Understand My Parents' Deaths / Brittany Brathwaite

The Backlash to Beyonce's Pregnancy Is an Example of the Attack on Black Motherhood / Gloria Malone

The Criminal Justice System Is Failing Black Families / Samantha Daley

The Names of Things / Kemi Alabi

NAKED POWER

Introduction / Janna A. Zinzi

Auntie Conversations: Black Women Talk Sex Self-Care, and Illness / Charmaine Lang

Shaming Women about Having Sex Doesn't Stop Us from Having Sex / Emma Akpan

A New "Pum Pum Palitix": Carnival and the Sex Education the Caribbean Needs / Samantha Daley

Exam Rooms and Bedrooms: Navigating Queer Sexual Health / Taja Lindley

Why Doesn't the Trans Community Have a Legit Dating App Yet? / Raquel Willis

Sexy MF: Celebrating Prince, New Orleans Baby Dolls and Not Giving a F*ck / Janna A. Zinzi

This Is What Naked Power Looks Like / Taja Lindley

Black, Queer, and Dating in the Buckle of the Bible Belt / Jordan Scruggs

Radically Truthful Dating Profiles / Various

BEAUTY BREAKS

Why I Debated Getting My Breasts Augmented

and Why I Finally Did / Raquel Willis

Learning to Love It, Yes Even That: Boob Sweat and More / Quita Tinsley

I'm a Black Woman; That Doesn't Mean I Have a Bomb in My Hair / Taja Lindley

Soft & Beautiful Just for Me Relaxer No-Lye Conditioning Creme, Children's Regular / Kemi Alabi

I Like My Unruly Eyebrows, Thank You Very Much / Cynthia R. Greenlee

"Are You Just a Plaything of Nature?" Amina Ross on the Politics of Beauty / Kemi Alabi

FOR THE KULCHA

How Prince Helped Me Be Black and Genderqueer in America's Bible Capital / Jordan Scruggs

30 Years Later 7 Ways A Different World Was Woke AF / Brittany Brathwaite

How Statement T-Shirts Unite Black History Culture, and Fashion / Cynthia R. Greenlee

Where's the 76, Parenting, and OK Reality Show? / Gloria Malone

Lemonade Refreshed My Spirit. I Didn't Feel Exploited Commodified, or Powerless, bell hooks / Emma Akpan

I Became a Black Woman in Spokane. But, Rachel Dolezal, I Was a Black Girl First / Alicia Walters

Weed for Period Pain? Yes, but I Want Equity in the Marijuana Industry Too / Jasmine Burnett

Tourmaline Wants Her Just Due / Raquel Willis

The Word Is "Nemesis": The Fight to Integrate the National Spelling Bee / Cynthia R. Greenlee

We Will Always Love You: Why Whitney Houston Was Our All-American Gurl / Janna A. Zinzi

BLACK LOVE AND BLACK FUTURES

Journey to Me: How I Came Out and Embraced All of Me / Charmaine Lang

"Overworked and Underpaid": Organizing, Black Womanhood and Self-Care / Charmaine Lang

We Should All Go to Rehab / Yamani Hernandez

In Betweens / Jordan Scruggs

Trans Visionaries: How Miss Major Helped Spark the Modern Trans Movement / Raquel Willis

Pleasure Politics Part I: Employment, Economic Justice and the Erotic / Taja Lindley

Herbs That Fortify Us / Carib Healing Collective

Lessons in Queer Community Building: Fear, Yearning, and Loving in Milwaukee / Charmaine Lang

Word Is Bond: A Ritual / Taja Lindley

ONWARD

Sometimes, the Struggle Isn't with "Them." It's between Us / Charmaine Lang

Bernie Is Not My Bro and Omarosa Is Not My Homegirl: Idas as Interrupters / Janna A. Zinzi

Reverse Haiku for Black Writers When the Calls for Pitches, Are Too Much / Cynthia R. Greenlee

Toward Our Black Feminist Future / Kemi Alabi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: The Echoing Ida collection.

ISBN:

9781558612839

1558612831

OCLC:

1144108243