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SPEAK!: Support Radical Mamis of Color!
BrokenBeautiful Press is proud to celebrate the birth of the most radical spoken word CD ever. Think This Bridge Called My Back in audio form! Speak Media Collective, a group of radical women of color transforming the world through new media, has launched a self-titled spoken word CD as a grassroots fundraiser to support the participation of young mothers of color in the Allied Media Conference. Help moms and kids of color travel to this national media gathering and get your mind blown at the same time. The CD includes a zine and a curriculum guide for using the CD in your community and classroom. To get your copy go to www.speakmediacollective.com
Wishful Thinking (because you make the world so much brighter)
Get your own cute mint green copy of “Wishful Thinking” a poem full of wishes affirming you and envisioning the community that we deserve. This poem was first presented at the National Day of Truthtelling in Durham, NC and you can get your own copy by making a donation to the Day of Truthtelling Coalition.
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Wrong is Not My Name: A Tribute to Survival Via June Jordan
In addition to poems, an essay and a flyer, this book also includes an annotated reading list, guiding the reader through the work of June Jordan, which survives through all of us, as well as exercises designed to help you re(name) yourself. We hope that this anthology will inspire people in other locations to use poetry, publication and community as resources through which to respond to violence and affirm each other.
All donations will support the Teal Ribbon Fund, a fund to help survivors with advanced counseling, bill payment due to loss of employment, transportation, or
civil legal representation. The Teal Ribbon Fund was established by
NCCASA (North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault) and is available to survivors throughout North Carolina.
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The Gunny Wolf: African American Folktale Retold
This version of the African American folktale The Gunny Wolf is retold by Griot MaMa Nia as part of a SpiritHouse family literacy program called Cookies and Milk. The story is designed for all ages and this booklet includes activities and games to help us all sing past fear together! You can recieve your very own copy through the mail by making a donation to SpiritHouse.
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Need: Poetry as Activism
This is an interactive poetry publication inspired by Audre Lorde’s resistance poem “Need: A Chorale for Black Woman Voices”. Lorde wrote this poem after 12 black women were murdered within 4 months in Boston. Along with the publication you’ll get a toolkit for a set of workshops that will empower you to create productive dialogue about important issues that your community is silent about.
Send an email to brokenbeautifulpress@gmail.com about your work and consider making a donation to UBUNTU a woman of color, survivor led group committed to a world without gendered violence.
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Brokenbeautiful Broadside
Proceeds from the broadside go to the International Black Youth Summit . Email brokenbeautifulpress@gmail.com and offer a donation and I’ll get back at you soon!
(all proceeds go to the International Black Youth Summit)
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The Soul Sister Anthology
All proceeds from these sales will go to Black Organization of Soul Sisters.
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Also find out how your group can publish an anthology as a fundraiser! Holler.
Your book, Wrong is Not my Name: A Tribute To Survival via June Jordan, was recently reviewed in American Book Review, Vol. 29.4. If you be so kind as to furnish a mailing address, we will send you two copies of this publication.
Thank you so much!