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Home Girls, the Glossary

Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (1983) is a collection of Black lesbian and Black feminist essays, edited by Barbara Smith.^[1]

49 relations: African American Review, African-American literature, Akasha Gloria Hull, Alexis De Veaux, Alice Walker, Ann Allen Shockley, Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, Becky Birtha, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Beverly Smith, Black feminism, Cheryl Clarke, Chirlane McCray, Conditions (magazine), Critical theory, Culture, Daughters of Africa, Deidre McCalla, Donna Allegra, Gender, Homophobia, Human sexuality, Intersectionality, Jewelle Gomez, Julie Carter, June Jordan, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBT community, Lorraine Bethel, Luisah Teish, Michelle Cliff, Michelle T. Clinton, Millennium March on Washington, Pat Parker, Patricia Spears Jones, Race (human categorization), Racial inequality in the United States, Renita J. Weems, Rutgers University Press, Sexual abuse, Sexual orientation, Sexual orientation discrimination, Sexualization, This Bridge Called My Back, Toi Derricotte, Womanism.
1983 anthologies
1983 in LGBT history
Black feminist books
LGBT anthologies
Lesbian feminist books
Lesbian history in the United States
Lesbian non-fiction books
Womanist literature

African American Review

African American Review is a scholarly aggregation of essays on African-American literature, theatre, film, the visual arts, and culture; interviews; poetry; fiction; and book reviews.

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African-American literature

African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent.

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Akasha Gloria Hull (born December 6, 1944) is an American poet, educator, writer, and critic whose work in African-American literature and as a Black feminist activist has helped shape Women's Studies.

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Alexis De Veaux

Alexis De Veaux (sometimes as Alexis DeVeaux) (born September 24, 1948) is an American writer and illustrator.

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Alice Walker

Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist.

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Ann Allen Shockley

Ann Allen Shockley (born June 21, 1927) is an American journalist, editor and author, specialising in themes of interracial lesbian love, especially the plight of black lesbians living under what she views as the "triple oppression" of racism, sexism, and homophobia.

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Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde (born Audrey Geraldine Lorde; February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) was an American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet and civil rights activist.

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Barbara Smith

Barbara Smith (born November 16, 1946) is an American lesbian feminist and socialist who has played a significant role in Black feminism in the United States.

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Becky Birtha

Becky Birtha (born October 11, 1948) is an American poet and children's author who lives in the greater Philadelphia area.

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Bernice Johnson Reagon

Bernice Johnson Reagon (October 4, 1942 – July 16, 2024) was an American song leader, professor of American history, composer, historian, musician, scholar, curator at the Smithsonian, and social activist who, in the early 1960s, was a founding member of the Freedom Singers, organized by the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the Albany Movement for civil rights in Georgia.

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Beverly Smith

Beverly Smith (born November 16, 1946) in Cleveland, Ohio, is a Black feminist health advocate, writer, academic, theorist and activist who is also the twin sister of writer, publisher, activist and academic Barbara Smith.

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Black feminism

Black feminism is a branch of feminism that focuses on the African-American woman's experiences and recognizes the intersectionality of racism and sexism. Black feminism philosophy centers on the idea that "Black women are inherently valuable, that liberation is a necessity not as an adjunct to somebody else's but because of our need as human persons for autonomy." According to Black feminism, race, gender, and class discrimination are all aspects of the same system of hierarchy, which bell hooks calls the "imperialist white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy." Due to their inter-dependency, they combine to create something more than experiencing racism and sexism independently.

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Cheryl Clarke

Cheryl L. Clarke (born Washington DC, May 16, 1947) is an American lesbian poet, essayist, educator and a Black feminist community activist who continues to dedicate her life to the recognition and advancement of Black and Queer people.

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Chirlane McCray

Chirlane Irene McCray (born November 29, 1954) is an American writer, editor, and activist.

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Conditions (magazine)

Conditions (full title: Conditions: a feminist magazine of writing by women with a particular emphasis on writing by lesbians) was a lesbian feminist literary magazine that came out biannually from 1976 to 1980 and annually from 1980 until 1990, and included poetry, prose, essays, book reviews, and interviews.

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Critical theory

A critical theory is any approach to humanities and social philosophy that focuses on society and culture to attempt to reveal, critique, and challenge power structures.

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Culture

Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.

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Daughters of Africa

Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present is a compilation of orature and literature by more than 200 women from Africa and the African diaspora, edited and introduced by Margaret Busby,Tonya Bolden,, Black Enterprise, March 1993, p. Home Girls and Daughters of Africa are black feminist books.

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Deidre McCalla

Deidre McCalla is an American singer-songwriter from New York City.

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Donna Allegra

Donna Allegra Simms (December 8, 1953 – January 13, 2020) was an American writer, dancer and electrician.

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Gender

Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity.

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Homophobia

Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who identify or are perceived as being lesbian, gay or bisexual.

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Human sexuality

Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually.

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Intersectionality

Intersectionality is a sociological analytical framework for understanding how groups' and individuals' social and political identities result in unique combinations of discrimination and privilege.

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Jewelle Gomez

Jewelle Lydia Gomez (born September 11, 1948) is an American author, poet, critic and playwright.

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Julie Carter

Julie Carter (born 1965) was a New Zealand netball player who represented her country on 50 occasions, becoming its captain in 1992.

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June Jordan

June Millicent Jordan (July 9, 1936 – June 14, 2002) was an American poet, essayist, teacher, and activist.

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Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press

Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press was an activist feminist press, closely related to the National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO), that was started in 1980 by Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, poet Audre Lorde.

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Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl.

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LGBT

is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".

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The LGBT community (also known as the LGBTQ+ community, LGBTQIA+ community, GLBT community, or queer community) is a loosely defined grouping of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals united by a common culture and social movements.

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Lorraine Bethel

Lorraine Bethel is an African-American lesbian feminist poet and author.

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Luisah Teish

Luisah Teish (also known as Iyanifa Fajembola Fatunmise) is a teacher and an author, most notably of Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals.Casey, Laura.

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Michelle Cliff

Michelle Carla Cliff (2 November 1946 – 12 June 2016) was a Jamaican-American author whose notable works included Abeng (1985), No Telephone to Heaven (1987), and Free Enterprise (2004).

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Michelle T. Clinton

Michelle T. Clinton (born 1955) is an American poet.

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Millennium March on Washington

The Millennium March on Washington was an event to raise awareness and visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and issues of LGBT rights in the US, it was held April 28 through April 30, 2000 in Washington, DC.

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Pat Parker

Pat Parker (born Patricia Cooks; January 20, 1944June 17, 1989) was an African American poet and activist.

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Patricia Spears Jones

Patricia Spears Jones (born 1951) is an American poet.

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Race (human categorization)

Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society.

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Racial inequality in the United States

In the United States, racial inequality refers to the social inequality and advantages and disparities that affect different races.

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Renita J. Weems

Renita J. Weems (born 1954) is an American Protestant biblical scholar, theologian, author and ordained minister.

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Rutgers University Press

Rutgers University Press (RUP) is a nonprofit academic publishing house, operating in New Brunswick, New Jersey under the auspices of Rutgers University.

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Sexual abuse

Sexual abuse or sex abuse, also referred to as molestation, is abusive sexual behavior by one person upon another.

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Sexual orientation

Sexual orientation is an enduring personal pattern of romantic attraction or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender.

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Sexual orientation discrimination

Sexual orientation discrimination (also known as sexualism) is discrimination based on a person's sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or pregnancy.

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Sexualization

Sexualization (sexualisation in Commonwealth English) is the emphasis of the sexual nature of a behavior or person.

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This Bridge Called My Back

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color is a feminist anthology edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa, first published in 1981 by Persephone Press. Home Girls and This Bridge Called My Back are black feminist books, literature by African-American women and Womanist literature.

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Toi Derricotte

Toi Derricotte (pronounced DARE-ah-cot) (born April 12, 1941) is an American poet.

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Womanism

Womanism is a term originating from the work of African American author Alice Walker in her 1983 book In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, denoting a movement within feminism, primarily championed by Black feminists.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Girls

Also known as Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology.

Home Girls, the Glossary

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See also

1983 anthologies

1983 in LGBT history

Black feminist books

LGBT anthologies

Lesbian feminist books

Lesbian history in the United States

Lesbian non-fiction books

Womanist literature

References