grandma, we are poets: Lucille Clifton Rebirth Broadcast #10

August 30, 2010 at 12:48 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Take home message: ableism denies and perpetuates trauma. In this poem Lucille Clifton breaks down traditional definitions of autism and reminds us that every way we experience the world is poetic, and necessary for the end of oppression…i.e. the transformation we deserve.

For more info about the Lucille Clifton Shape Shifter Survival School of End Cycles of Child Sexual Abuse see:
blackfeministmind.wordpress.com/survival-school

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School’s In (Beware)

August 19, 2010 at 5:52 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

“If Black women were free it would mean that everyone else would have to be free…”  Combahee River Collective Statement, 1974

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