Say that!
Speaking and writing are powerful forms of this, meaning a way to push back against norms, expectations, and demands.
What is resistance?
The acronym W.A.S.P. stands for this, referring to a group whose experiences are often treated as the standard where feminism is concerned.
What is White Anglo-Saxon Protestant?
Chloe Ardelia Wofford, the given name of this literary giant, was born in Lorain, Ohio.
Who is Toni Morrison?
This is a subgenre within Science Fiction that primarily focuses on black characters.
What is Afrofuturism?
The Black Book combines this (works by multiple authors in one collection) with storytelling, images, and historical facts to tell a more dynamic story of African American people.
What is anthology?
"The danger of a single story is not that it's wrong but that it is _________________."
What is incomplete?
When little girls are labeled "fast" or "grown," it is a form of this, which has its roots in pedophilia ultimately.
What is adultification?
This scholar and critic renamed herself after a grandmother and chose to only spell her name in lowercase letters.
Who is bell hooks?
One of the key elements of Octavia Butler's writing is its seeming ability to predict future events. This makes it a form of ______________ Fiction.
What is Speculative?
DAILY DOUBLE
In her/their previous works, Janelle Monae took on a character named Cindi Mayweather, which was this kind of nonhuman creation on the run from the law for falling in love with a human.
What is an android?
Part of Carolyn Rodgers's speaker's argument in "The Last M.F." is that many people have stalled the project of black _______________ with their selfish ambitions, misogyny, etc.
What is liberation?
DAILY DOUBLE
Using nonlinear or non-chronological time, non-heteronormative gender and sexual practices, and changing the norms of society and technology in order to build new worlds are all forms of this.
What is queering?
This novel, named for the title character, focuses on themes of girlhood, coming of age, friendship, and motherhood, among other things.
What is Sula?
In "Bloodchild," special eggs are used to do this for Terran people, a technology that can exist in an Afrofuturist world.
What is prolong life?
These are the four novels that people most return to when reading, analyzing, and thinking about "The G.O.A.T." (Name all four!)
What are The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, and Beloved?
Rodgers reminds us that these will not save us from white violence, capitalism, sexism, or anything plaguing us. Instead they just divide us and make us turn on one another in an attempt to prove how good and moral we are.
What are respectability politics?
Coined by scholar Moya Bailey to describe the specific forms of gendered violence and discrimination that black women face, this term comes from the word misogyny.
What is misogynoir?
Nicknamed "The Venus Hottentot" and paraded in circuses and freakshows, this woman's given Khoi Khoi name was this.
What is Saartije Baartman?
Butler says that one of the things she imagined that she wanted to include in her writing included this form of reproduction.
What are pregnant men?
This poet from Nashville is also associated with Chicago, where she grew up in a household that she deemed special and "happy" despite its imperfections and difficulties.
Who is Nikki Giovanni?
Nel's refusal to "pull" her nose at her mother's urging is a form of pushing back against this kind of colorist thinking.
What is featurism?
Kincaid's "Girl" is this kind of poem, and Alexander's "The Venus Hottentot" is this kind of poem (poetic forms).
What are prose and persona?
Jamaica Kincaid is a pseudonym that the writer has used throughout her career, but her given name is...
What is Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson?
Finish this lyric from Janelle Monae's hit "Float":
"Came back from _________ to take all y'all 🥷🏾 and take all y'all 🍑. / They said I was _________. Yeah, baby I'm _________. A _________."
What is "...the future...." and "bi...bi...whole 'nother coast"?
These two texts were published in the 1970s by different authors but have much to say about the well-being of black girls and women. Name the texts and the authors.
What are Sula by Toni Morrison and "The Combahee River Collective Statement" by Combahee?