This episode is focused on This Bridge Called My Back, an amazing anthology of creative work by women of color, edited by Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherrie Moraga. These two women created a space for women of color to share their experiences and stories. Each author labored to bring her story to the page and to make her lived experience visible to a wide audience.

We read texts to expand our awareness of Intersectional theory as it has evolved since Crenshaw coined the term in 1989.

Today we discuss the book Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward. Written in 2017, this story follows a family through a hot summer of dysfunction, addiction, loss, and growth. This book was paired with Daughters of the Dust and Lemonade because they are all created by black feminists, have similar themes, and aesthetics.

Today we discuss two wonderful black feminist movies! The first one we talk about is Daughters of the Dust directed by Julie Dash. The second movie is Lemonade by Beyoncé.

Because of our many snow days, we are finding ourselves busy with curriculum changes, grading, etc. So instead of a full podcast, we are giving you text recommendation from The New York Times called "When the Suffrage Movement Sold Out to White Supremacy" by Brent Staples. Staples names the black women who labored to ensure that all women, not just white women, would have the right to vote. He names their names and shares the work they did.

We held a workshop where we explored the nuances of kinship. We discussed how kinship is traditionally defined and how feminists seek to define it in non-heteronormative terms.

Since we are snowed in, this week we are recommending a text called "Relying on Friendship in a World Built for Couples" by Briallen Hopper. We will be talking about this article next week on our podcast about kinship structures.

Today we will discuss two wonderful and foundational black feminist texts by Barbara Smith and by Barbara Christian. Both of these women have put a tremendous amount of labor into creating theory from black lived experiences.

We are so excited to be joined on the podcast by our friend and coworker James who is going to walk us through his experience taking classes from Kimberly and his journey with this material as a white male. We reference bell hooks' wonderful text All About Love.

Today we will discuss the introduction to Hortense Spillers' article "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book". She proposes that we need new language to describe the experiences of black females, like herself, because words like "womanhood" and "mother" historically do not apply.