A press of our own kitchen table.
Kitchen table press. Kitchen is one of the most necessary room of your home were you can create some very particular reminiscences. Follow us on social to stay current with the latest marketing news tips and updates. Women of color press founded circa 1980 by audre lorde barbara smith and other black feminists after a meeting of african american and african caribbean women in boston more about them. Over at the city lights blog.
Kitchen table literary arts in 1980 activist feminist writer and scholar barbara smith started a press to make visual the writing culture and history of women of color at the urging of poet audre lorde and a collective of other poets writers and essayists smith set out on the inspired and passionate tasks of building the mission. Women of color press was an activist feminist press that was closely related to the national black feminist organization nbfo which was started in 1980 following a phone conversation between barbara smith and at the suggestion of her friend poet audre lorde beverly and barbara smith and their associate demita frazier together cofounded the combahee river collective crc. Alexis pauline gumbs the founder of brokenbeautiful press talks about kitchen table. Women of color press.
Because audre lorde said your silence will not protect you because barbara smith said but some of us are brave because toni cade bambara said the role of the revolutionary artist is to make revolution irresistible because sylvia wynter says our poetics is our politics is the way we make a world. Kitchen table press offers a variety of handmade jewelry home decor fine art ceramics and stationary products all made on our kitchen table. You can create your kitchen with your individual ideas and artistic parts. Because we cannot live without our lives our contradictions or our words.
Women of color press barbara smith if any one had asked in 1980 whether books by women of color could sell or whether a press that published only work by and about women of color could survive the logical an swer would have been no especially if the person who an. Women of color press was an activist feminist press related to the national black feminist organization started in 1980 following a phone conversation between barbara smith and at the suggestion of her friend poet audre lorde beverly and barbara smith and their associate demita frazier together cofounded the combahee river collective. Kitchen table was the first woman of color independent press that became well known for publishing the groundbreaking collection this bridge called my back. Edited by gloria anzaldĂșa and moraga in 1983 the pieces in bridge paved the way for how we breathe speak and love feminism today.
Because love is.