“The search for language, whether among other writers that I read or in originating it myself, constitutes the way in which I think."
- Toni Morrison
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Beloved
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The Source of Self-Regard
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Black Book
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A Day with Toni Morrison (1978) Interview + Reading
An interview with a young Toni Morrison. The video also shows Toni Morrison going shopping, at a party, and at work. Her commentary provides an incisive look behind her written words, and at the vision, technique, and lifestyle of this award-winning author. She reads from The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Song of Solomon.
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Imagine Otherwise: Tina Campt on Listening to Images
This was the first instance that I came across Tina Campts work. how listening to images reveals their multisensory and embodied nature, the haptic connections we have to photos, why the art/activism/academia braid holds such power for Black communities, and why putting intimacy at the center of all she does is how Tina imagines otherwise.
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Image Matters
Image Matters is an extraordinary reflection on what vernacular photography enabled black Europeans to say about themselves and their communities.
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Listening to Images
In Listening to Images Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening closely to photography, engaging with lost archives of historically dismissed photographs of black subjects taken throughout the black diaspora.
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Black visuality and the practice of refusal
What constitutes a practice of refusal? This article engages the practice of refusal collaboratively articulated by the Practicing Refusal Collective, a group founded three years ago by myself and Saidiya Hartman. - Tina Campt
“If you really want to be with me, you will read these books.”
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Things I Should Have Told My Daughter
This book brought me back to the importance of journaling. If not for yourself but for others to read after the fact. I love that Pearl gave her journals to her daughters.
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Finding Eliza
Kristin Cleage has been researching her family history since 1973. She started blogging in 2010 to help her to organize and publish my information.
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Do The Work That Needs To Be Done
Pearl Cleage was the keynote speaker on Thursday, June 9, 2016 at the third annual Woodruff Arts Center Educator Conference.
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Pearl Cleage visits Charis
Pearl Cleage visits Charis Books and More in Atlanta,GA to talk about her book Things I Should Have Told My Daughter.
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All About Love
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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Interview: Remembered Rapture
Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work a collection of essays celebrating the writing life and illuminating the issues she and other black women writers have contended with in their careers.
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Grow it.
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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Sell it.
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
The Edge of Each Other’s Battles
M. Jacqui Alexander introduces Audre Lorde to the 1200 women, men, and activist youth from 23 countries attending the historic Boston conference honoring Audre Lorde's life and work.
