Monthly Archives: March 2009

homegirls & handgrenades: BloomBeautiful

11th
Mar. × ’09

for L, my sister who is unwittingly teaching me forgiveness

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homegirls & handgrenades: Sunni Patterson

10th
Mar. × ’09

So you tell me
what's the difference
between
two women
in New Orleans
shot point blank
in the back
of the head

and

two women
bombed
in their car
in Baghdad

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Get Inspired: Young girls and leadership

9th
Mar. × ’09

How did the 2008 US elections affect young women and girls? supreme being has a new post about a recent survey conducted by the Girl Scout Research Institute.

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homegirls & handgrenades: Comandante Ramona

4th
Mar. × ’09

When Mexico's balaclava-clad Subcomandante Marcos launched his Zapatista rebellion in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas in January 1994, a tiny woman in gaily embroidered native huipil blouse was often seen alongside him, all but her eyes masked by a pink bandanna. She looked as though she had never used the Vietnam-era rifle that almost dwarfed her, and some say she never did.

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homegirls & handgrenades: Sonia Sanchez

2nd
Mar. × ’09

Sonia Sanchez is one of the most deeply moving and committed poets to emerge from the Black Arts Movement in the late sixties and seventies. A poet, activist, playwright, editor and teacher, Sanchez has significantly influenced African American literature and culture by the urgency of her sustained and powerful voice.

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Quote #9: Women’s History Month 2009

1st
Mar. × ’09

“I am here because I shall not give the earth up to non-dreamers...” — Sonia Sanchez, author & poet, homegirls & handgrenades

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