Love this! I also haven’t really read anything by Toni Cade. I’m in love with the fact that there are a handful of women authors named Toni and they all seem to be fire! 🔥 It’s inspiring to me. As a girl I remember not liking my name because people always would tell me it was a “boy’s name” (speaking of social expectations around language!). Now I love it.
* Toni Cade Bambara
(Checking my library for any of her work this week!)
She's phenomenal. Salt Eaters is a good place to start. This quote is from an interview that still blows my mind.
Thanks! I will check it out!
Love this! I also haven’t really read anything by Toni Cade. I’m in love with the fact that there are a handful of women authors named Toni and they all seem to be fire! 🔥 It’s inspiring to me. As a girl I remember not liking my name because people always would tell me it was a “boy’s name” (speaking of social expectations around language!). Now I love it.
Thanks for the beautiful post.
Hell yes, Toni’s for the win. You're already one of the greats!
Super appreciate the irony of academic language for The Academy here. I hope they’re hearing you!
Who knows, academia is such a strange place of liberalism and inaction, but also has value… we live in a world full of contradictions 🖤
Absolutely! We are that! (Full of contradictions)