As one reader/reviewer proclaimed, “[This Bridge] is one of the most precious books in women’s history.” Edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua (1942-2004), with an unforgettable “Foreword” by the iconic Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995), This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, includes writings by many of the stalwarts of women of color feminism, including Moraga and Anzaldua, who made their writing debuts here. Barbara Smith whose co-editorship with Lorraine Bethel of Conditions Five: The Black Women’s Issue in 1979, paved the way for This Bridge. Originally published by Persephone Press in 1981 and then reprinted by Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press in 1983, This Bridge still remains crucial to progressive and radical feminist politics for women of all colors. Third Women Press reprinted it in 2002, and kept it going until 2008. SUNY Press in 2014 reprinted it once again. My ever-popular essay, “Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance,” first appears here with the work of Barbara Smith, Chrystos, Nellie Wong, Mitsuye Yamada, Jo Carillo, Pat Parker, Audre Lorde, Kate Rushin, and so many others. The Third Women Press edition (right) contains artwork and retrospective articles by Cecilia Herrera Rodriguez and Matt (aka Mattie U.) Richardson as well as new forewords by the late Anzaldua and Moraga. https://www.sunypress.edu/Search=Moraga.
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