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Overview
Pat Parker - that revolutionary, raw, and as they used to say, "right-on sister" - would be celebrating her fifty-fifth birthday in 1999 had she not died of breast cancer ten years ago.. "She wrote about gut issues: the lives of ordinary Black people, violence, loving women, the legacy of her African American heritage, being queer. Both in her personal life and as a political activist she linked the struggles for racial, gender, sexual, and class equality long before it was PC to do so.. "This new, expanded edition of Movement in Black - containing previously unpublished work - honors Pat Parker and calls attention to the significance of her contributions.Synopsis
Pat Parker - that revolutionary, raw, and as they used to say, "right-on sister" - would be celebrating her fifty-fifth birthday in 1999 had she not died of breast cancer ten years ago.. "She wrote about gut issues: the lives of ordinary Black people, violence, loving women, the legacy of her African American heritage, being queer. Both in her personal life and as a political activist she linked the struggles for racial, gender, sexual, and class equality long before it was PC to do so.. "This new, expanded edition of Movement in Black - containing previously unpublished work - honors Pat Parker and calls attention to the significance of her contributions.
Venus Magazine
This a revision of Parker's 1978 Firebrand classic. The book is both celebratory and commemorative. This volume gives an opportunity for both those who were around the first time and those who are new to her work to experience and enjoy this activit's work.