Much like the central character in her semi-autobiographical novel, Virgin Soul, whom Juanita calls a female foot soldier, the voice herein is a feminist foot soldier, processing major shifts in American society through the portal of her own artistic development. Wells-Barnett, Lorde, Alice Walker, Michelle Wallace, Angela Davis, bell hooks, Paula Giddings, Michelle Alexander, Roxane Gay and Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche. With the feel of memoir, these essays align with female thinkers Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. is the writer herself, a feminist foot soldier. An act of self-definition spanning four decades, the central person in DeFacto. A distinguished semifinalist for OSU's 2016 Non/Fiction Collection Prize, De Facto & is a cross between Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name and Jean Toomer's Cane, blending essay, poems, graphics and literary criticism. "DeFacto Feminism: Essays Straight Outta Oakland views activism and feminism as they play out in one writer's political, artistic and spiritual life. Report from The Front, i.e., Berkeley, CA.All the women in my family read Terry McMillan.The N-Word: let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.Five comrades in the Black Panther Party, 1967-1970.My California childhood: a freedom childhood.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Contents
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