Sentences with phrase «women authors of color»

The Guardian writes about the need for awards for women authors of color, stating that the prizes «provide a platform on which to unite and force change.»

Not exact matches

It is this combination of structural and cultural supports for child - rearing that the authors wish to recover, without losing the gains won in the past 30 years for women and people of color.

Directed by Marie Fortune, a pastor and author of Sexual Violence, The Unmentionable Sin: An Ethical and Pastoral Perspective (Pilgrim Press, 1983), the Center has developed resources for congregational study and action, including a study guide for teen - agers on preventing sexual abuse, a monograph on violence against women of color, and a manual for congregational use in discovering and developing community resources on family violence.

In Forgive Us, authors Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson provide historical information, reflection, and prayers around Christianity's complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.

The finding prompted the authors to launch plans to establish a forum on diversity and inclusion that includes leadership roles for LGBT individuals, people of color, women, and people with disabilities — and recognizes the role of overlapping identities.

With the magic of photoshop, the authors changed the color of the clothed chest area in the women's photos every 12 weeks, rotating randomly through the colors red, black, white, yellow, blue or green.

In 2015, only 15 % of children's books were written by African - American or Latino authors, or focused on African - American or Latino characters» Over 80 % of public school teachers nationally are White women, though a majority of public school students are people of color.

Paulette Jiles is a poet and the author of Cousins, a memoir, and the bestselling novels Enemy Women, Stormy Weather, and The Color of Lightning.

This volume features 20 self - identified female authors writing about intersectionality, including women of color, disabled, transgender, and GLB / GSD (Gender and Sexual Diversities).

Knowing that there are people out there who are going to not only sneer at anything I write just because I'm female (and prone to writing heroines of color, women in positions of power, and queer people), but who will actively work to shout down anything I and authors like me try to do.

Appearances: Willow Books Authors on Tour (nationwide); Furious Flower Conference, James Madison University; George Mason University; Associated Writing Programs (AWP); Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA); Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML) / Michigan State University; Split This Rock; Poets House; Pratt Women of Color collection; University of New Haven Reading Series; Winter Wheat Festival, Grand Valley State U. (w / Aquarius Press); Carr Center, Detroit; Annual LitFest (nationwide) Recent Special Appearances: Cave Canem / Willow Books New York Reading; Thurgood Marshall Ctr.

Mosaics Volume One features twenty self - identified female authors writing about Intersectionality, including women of color, and members of the disability, trans, and GLB / GSD * (Gender and Sexual Diversities) communities.

We strive to publish quality writing, focusing on authors and subjects historically neglected by mainstream publishers, including women, people of color, authors with disabilities, and LGBT authors.

Multiple women came forward about each author to share sordid stories of sexual harassment, inappropriate remarks aimed at and in front of children, and racist remarks about fellow authors who happen to be people of color.

- Kirkus «This new novel by the author of the popular debut Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet paints a many - colored entangled double portrait of a young boy and a woman.

Cynthia Simmons, author of Anything, My Love, worked with Lorenz and received nearly a two page write up and color photo in Women's World.

When female authors write under male pen names (or just use their gender ambiguous initials); when you call grown women girls; when you describe a medical procedure in sensational and inaccurate language; when you write about people of color using only food - based descriptors you're doing your audience a disservice and, in the end, damaging our society as a whole.

In the 1980s, just as women and artists of color were starting showing more, the big new theory of the day proclaimed that the author was dead.

Glenn is authoring and editing a fully - illustrated catalog to accompany the exhibition, which features an intergenerational selection of 24 artists, women of color whose works stray from traditional interpretations and expectations of abstraction.

They include Paulette Brown of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, who co-authored the landmark 2006 report, Visible Invisibility: Women of Color in Law Firms; R. Ted Cruz of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, the first Hispanic to be Texas solicitor general and author of more than 70 Supreme Court briefs; John W. Daniels of Quarles & Brady, one of the first African - Americans to lead a top U.S. firm; Keith M. Harper of Kilpatrick Stockton, a Cherokee who heads his firm's Native American affairs practice group; Patricia Menendez - Cambo, co-chair of Greenberg Traurig's global practice group; General Mills GC Roderick A. Palmore, who, as GC at Sara Lee, spearheaded the Call to Action urging corporate law firms to diversify; and Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the ACLU.