Colonize This! : young women of color on today's feminism /

Revised edition of Colonize this!, c2002.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword: "The Path of Greater Empowerment" / Cherríe L. Moraga.

Introduction to the Second Edition / by Daisy Hernández.

Introduction to the Second Edition / by Bushra Rehman.

Introduction to the First Edition.

browngirlworld: queergirlofcolor organizing, sistahood, heartbreak / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.

#SayHerName: The Day Utopia Came Home / Jamilah King.

Colonize This! Cristina Tzintzún.

Resisting Sterilization & Embracing Trans Motherhood / Luna Merbruja.

What Happens When Your Hood Is the Last Stop on the White Flight Express? / Taigi Smith.

HIV and Me: The Chicana Version / Stella Luna.

Tenderheaded Before, During, and After Obama / Amber Taylor.

Love Feminism but Where's My Hip Hop? Shaping a Black Feminist Identity / Gwendolyn D. Pough.

Black Feminism in Everyday Life: Race, Mental Illness, Poverty, and Motherhood / Siobhan Brooks.

Bring Us Back into the Dance: Women of the Wasase / Kahente Horn-Miller.

Love Clinic / Soyon Im.

Echoes of a Mother: Black Women, Foster Care, and Reproductive Rights / Sayeeda Copeland.

Dutiful Hijas: Dependecy, Power, and Care / Erica González Martínez.

Becoming an Abortion Doula / Sandra Kumwong.

Femme-Inism: Lessons of My Mother / Paula Austin.

Feminist Musings on the No. 3 Train / Phoenix Soleil.

Chappals and Gym Shorts: An Indian Muslim Woman in the Land of Oz / Almas Sayeed.

Migrant Organizing: A Retelling / Sonia Guiñansaca.

Ladies Only / Tanmeet Sethi.

Our Hermanitas' Heroes / Andrea L. Pino.

Organizing 101: A Mixed-Race Feminist in Movements for Social Justice / Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz.

Lost in the Indophile Translation: A Validation of My Experience / Bhavana Mody.

A Native American Feminist's Guide to Survival / Natani Notah.

Heartbroken: Women of Color Feminism and the Third Wave / Rebecca Hurdis.

It's Not an Oxymoron: The Search for an Arab Feminism / Susan Muaddi Darraj.

Angry Transsexuals / Lexi Adsit.

Falling Off the Tightrope onto a Bed of Feathers / Darice Jones.

How Sexual Harassment Slaughtered, Then Saved Me / Kiini Ibura Salaam.

The Black Beauty Myth / Sirena J. Riley.

Can I Get a Witness? Testimony from a Hip-Hop Feminist / Shani Jamila.

It has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the globe. Since then, key social movements have risen, including Black Lives Matter, transgender rights, and the activism of young undocumented students. Social media has also changed how feminism reaches young women of color, generating connections in all corners of the country. And yet we remain a country divided by race and gender.
Now, a new generation of outspoken women of color offer a much-needed fresh dimension to the shape of feminism of the future. In Colonize This!, Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman have collected a diverse, lively group of emerging writers who speak to the strength of community and the influence of color, to borders and divisions, and to the critical issues that need to be addressed to finally reach an era of racial freedom. With prescient and intimate writing, Colonize This! will reach the hearts and minds of readers who care about the experience of being a woman of color, and about establishing a culture that fosters freedom and agency for women of all races.

Teen / young adult.