homegirls & handgrenades: BloomBeautiful

for L, my sister who is unwittingly teaching me forgiveness

homegirls & handgrenades: Sunni Patterson

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

Get Inspired: Young girls and leadership

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.

homegirls & handgrenades: Comandante Ramona

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.

homegirls & handgrenades: Sonia Sanchez

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.

Quote #9: Women's History Month 2009

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