Afterword: Toni Cade Bambaras Living Legacy by Aishah Shahidah Simmons for #BambaraOnTFW #TFWPraisesTheLorde #BambaraOnTFW Sixty-nine essays, remembrances, love notes, poems, and videos and thirteen days later, my sister co-curator and co-editor, Heidi Renée Lewis and I are closing The Feminist Wire’s online celebration in honor of daughter, mother, sister, writer, organizer, filmmaker, activist, and cultural worker Toni Cade Bambaras 75th birthday anniversary year. […] In our ongoing effort to support our total well being, TFW will go on a critically needed break for most of December 2014. The struggles for peace and justice are never ending. And yet, we know that our work can never be healthier than we are. Are you sure you want to be well? ... [W]holeness is no trifling matter... A lot of weight when youre well. - Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters Not all speed is movement!-Toni Cade Bambara, The Black Woman: An Anthology In the Hands of the Ancestors! Ase. The Afterword includes the entire “Bambara Index” with links to each of the 69 offerings. Toni Cade Bambara Forum Roll Call: Heidi R. Lewis, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Tamura A. Lomax, Chadra Pitman Wake, Sarah Charlene Poindexter, Louis Massiah, Clyde Taylor, ayoka chenzira, Zeinabu Irene Davis, Cara Page, Steven G Fullwood and Joel D., Farah Tanis, Kai M Green, Thabiti Lewis, Kalamu Salaam, Kamili and Tom Feelings, Malaika Adero, Alice Lovelace, Pamela A. Hooks, Janice Liddell, Ayana Jamieson, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Naomi Rich, Nikki Harmon, Nadine Patterson, Miyoshi Smith, Denise Brown, Amadee Laila Braxton, Bia Vieira, Sande Smith, Laura Whitehorn, Michael Simmons, Donald P. Stone, Eleanor Traylor, Haki Madhubuti Gloria I. Joseph, Beverly Guy Sheftall, M Bahati Kuumba and Malika Redmond, Cheryl Clarke, Paula Giddings, Stephanie Troutman and Bell Hooks, Ethelbert Miller, Sam Anderson and Rosemari Mealy, Nikky Finney, Carole Ann Brown, Tina Morton, Wesley Brown, Pearl Cleage, imani uzuri, Rita Dove, Linda Holmes, Susan Ross, Samiya Bashir, Kate Rushin, M. Nzadi Keita, Roxana Walker-Canton, Kwame Dawes and Sonia Sanchez… *SAVE THE DATES* From January 15 through January 17, 2015, TFW, in partnership with University of Arizona, will host a Black Life Matters conference in Tucson, AZ. thefeministwire/2014/11/afterword-toni-cade-bambara/
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