In this episode, first recorded in October 2021, Dr. Erica Williams (Cite Black Women Collective, Spelman College) shares her journey fighting Breast Cancer in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Here, she considers the healing power of Black women's words. Particularly, Dr. Williams reflects on the ways that Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals inspired her through her process of diagnosis, surgery and healing, and how she has used journaling and sharing her story to heal herself.
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In this episode, first recorded in October 2021, Dr. Erica Williams (Cite Black Women Collective, Spelman College) shares her journey fighting Breast Cancer in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Here, she considers the healing power of Black women's words. Particularly, Dr. Williams reflects on the ways that Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals inspired her through her process of diagnosis, surgery and healing, and how she has used journaling and sharing her story to heal herself.
SPECIAL Episode - Brazilian Poet Elizandra Souza (in Portuguese)
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SPECIAL Episode - Brazilian Poet Elizandra Souza (in Portuguese)
In this special episode of the Cite Black Women Podcast—our first in Portuguese— host Christen Smith talks with poet and activist Elizandra Souza of São Paulo, Brazil.
Elizandra Souza é uma das referências em literatura negra produzida nas periferias de São Paulo, com uma trajetória de 18 anos de ativismo cultural. é escritora, poeta, jornalista formada em Comunicação Social pela Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie e técnica em Comunicação Visual pela Etec Carlos de Campos. É ativista cultural há 18 anos com ênfase na difusão do jornalismo cultural da Periferia e da Literatura Negra Feminina. Integrante fundadora do Sarau das Pretas desde 2016. Autora dos livros de poesias: Águas da Cabaça (2012) e Punga co-autoria Akins Kintê, Edicões Toró (2007). Editora do Coletivo Mjiba dos livros: Águas da Cabaça (2012), Pretextos de Mulheres Negras (2013) e Terra Fértil (2014). Participa de diversas antologias literárias. Atuou como editora e jornalista responsável na Agenda Cultural da Periferia na Ação Educativa (2007- 2017) Participou do Festival Internacional de Poesia em Havana (Cuba), 2016 e do Congresso LASA / Nuestra América: Justice and Inclusion em Boston (EUA), 2019.
Cite Black Women Podcast
In this episode, first recorded in October 2021, Dr. Erica Williams (Cite Black Women Collective, Spelman College) shares her journey fighting Breast Cancer in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Here, she considers the healing power of Black women's words. Particularly, Dr. Williams reflects on the ways that Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals inspired her through her process of diagnosis, surgery and healing, and how she has used journaling and sharing her story to heal herself.
