Black Women's Writing Revisited

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Notes

• 1) September 28 broadcast of Salem Radio Network's Bill Bennett's Morning in America.
• 2) Luz Rodriguez, "Population Control in Puerto Rico", Conference Presentation at Let's Talk About Sex the SisterSong 10th Anniversary Conference, May 2006.
• 3) Elizabeth Freeman. "Time Binds or Erotohistoriography." Social Text 84-85, Vol. 23, Nos 3-4, Fall -Winter 2005. Discussed in more detail later.
• 4) See, for example, the Audre Lorde Project, a center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit people of color organizing in New York City (www.alp.org) or Zami an organization of "lesbians of African descent" in Atlanta or National Black Justice Coalition (an organization committed to the legal rights of black non-heterosexual people) feature of June Jordan on Day 1 of their black history campaign.
• 5) Cherrie Moraga at "Sister Comrade" a celebration of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker at the First Congregational Church in Oakland, California on November 3rd. 2007.
• 6) See Judith Halberstam in In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives. New York: NYU Press, 2005. And Jose Munoz "Queerness as Horizon: Utopian Hermeneutics in the Face of Gay Pragmatism" (forthcoming).
• 7) Roderick Ferguson. Aberrations in Black: Towards a Queer of Color Critique. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. 127.
• 8) The Politics of Being Other: Third World Women. Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics. Vol. 2 No. 4, 1979, 1.
• 9) Chandra Mohanty, Conference Presentation "Transnational Feminisms" at Mellon-Mays Summer Conference, June 14th 2006.
• 10) "Correspondence with Chrysalis." Box 85, Folder 1. Radcliffe Library: Harvard University.
• 11) Barbara Smith. "Memorial Address for Audre Lorde." Box 101, Folder 4. June Jordan Archives. Radcliffe Library: Harvard University.
• 12) "Note" in Azalea, front matter. Vol.1 No. 2.