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“MY BODY IS THE (CUTTING-) EDGE OF TERRORISM: RAPE, DISMEMBERMENT, AND EMBODIED VIOLENCE,” Part 2

November 6, 2021by Breakinground Press Leave a comment

2021 Gloria Naylor in the Archives Symposium, November 5-7 at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA Panel: Rewriting The Women of Brewster Place I. 1996 In a January 23, 2006 interview with […]

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The Technology of Total Terror: Black Screen, White Noise and Herbert Marcuse’s Aesthetic Dimension

October 8, 2021by Breakinground Press Leave a comment

International Herbert Marcuse Society, Ninth Biennial Conference, Arizona State University, USA October, 7-10, 2021 Panel: Intersections of Race and Feminism I. Introduction Angela Davis has written that Marcuse’s “negative thinking” […]

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Conference Papers/Presentations

if Superman was a Black gay man/ in love (and wanting to be free)

June 30, 2021by Breakinground Press Leave a comment

“i arm myself against sunsets/and one-night stands/terrified to kiss”

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Gloria Naylor’s 1996-Chapter 2 (Audio Version)

May 16, 2021by Breakinground Press Leave a comment

“Dick Simon is not having a good day. He spent the morning in a Senate Intelligence Committee closed session for a hearing on the latest budget proposed by his office in the National Security Agency.”

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Gloria Naylor's 1996

Gloria Naylor’s 1996-Chapter 1 (Audio Version)

May 11, 2021by Breakinground Press Leave a comment

“I didn’t want to tell this story. It’s going to take courage. Perhaps more courage than I possess, but they’ve left me no alternatives. I am in a battle for my mind. If I stop now, they’ll have won, and I will lose myself.”

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Gloria Naylor's 1996

Mayday

May 1, 2021by Breakinground Press Leave a comment

(May 1, 2021) Calling earth people… calling all earthlings calling all zombified breathtaking war making Godfearing raping gas guzzling land stealing genocidal dream fixated creative destructionist consumer-citizen polluters anti-misogynists anti-white […]

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Poems

confessions of a bitter artist (a fictional journal) 4.

April 26, 2021by Breakinground Press Leave a comment

4. Jabulani She hands me the keys. “How is he?” I look at her as if to say, let it be, but instead sigh. “Alright.” Jabulani (or “Jabo” as we […]

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confessions of a bitter artist (a fictional journal)

“My Body Is the (Cutting-) Edge of Terrorism: Rape, Dismemberment, and Embodied Violence”

March 14, 2021by Breakinground Press Leave a comment

Presented at Virtual 52nd NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) Convention 2021,Mar 10-14, University at Buffalo, SUNY (State University of New York) Panel: New Directions in Gloria Naylor Scholarship “There are […]

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confessions of a bitter artist (a fictional journal) 3.

November 9, 2020by Breakinground Press Leave a comment

3. Lizzie “I’m a plain ol’ Black girl,” she is fond of saying. Too pretty to even notice her own beauty, doe eyes framed by thick lashes and full lips […]

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confessions of a bitter artist (a fictional journal)

confessions of a bitter artist (a fictional journal) 2.

September 27, 2020by Breakinground Press Leave a comment

2. hurt Ten minutes later and caffeinated, I’m in a chair at Infinite Body Piercing. Lizzie presses plump the left nipple at the entry and exit points (two dots) marked […]

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