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Acknowledgments
Introduction: On the Bridge Between Intimacy and Collectivity / wilson, Acuff, and Kraehe
PART 1. TAKING HEED OF THE SACRED, SPIRITUAL, AND ANCESTRAL
1. Old and Black, a Prayer / Charlene A. Carruthers
2. Unbought and Unbossed: Black Womanist Resistance / Keya Crenshaw
3. Alight / elizabeth jones
4. This Is My Body, This Is My Blood: Reimaging Ritual in the Creation of Mexica-Feminine Sacred Spaces / Raquel Hernandez Guerrero
5. Tales Left Untold: Tribal Women and Their Windows to the World / Ami Kantawala
PART 2. FRAGMENTS, FRACTURES, AND FUMBLINGS
6. A Black* Composition / gloria j. wilson*
7. How to Survive Lightweight Trauma and Death Threats: Home Is Where You Can Live Now / Vivian Fumiko Chin
8. Becoming Middle Girl / Amelia M. Kraehe
9. Flesh, Skin, and Bones @marimachaspeaks / Tanya Diaz-Kozlowski
10. Nochipa Ipan Noyoltsin (Always in My Heart)—Batallas Cotidianas / Liliana Conlisk Gallegos
PART 3. PEDAGOGIES OF LIBERATION AND RESISTANCE
11. Generation After Generation / Sama Alshaibi
12. When Love Is Not Enough: Choosing to Heal Ourselves When the World Wants Us to Burn / Martinez and Tonantzin Zamora
13. Professor Becky and I / Sana Rizvi
14. Put It on Blast / Aram Han Sifuentes
15. A Note to Self: Ruminations of Black Womanhood X Leadership X Resistance / Portia Newman
PART 4. DIASPORAS, DEPARTURES, AND DISPLACEMENT
16. Can’t You Speak Perfect English?: The Language That Troubles Me / Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis
17. Stitches in the Flesh: Subversive Rewriting / Michelle Bae-Dimitriadia
18. Levels to This Shit: Racial Categorization, Mixed Skin, and the Isolation of Bridging / Vanessa López
19. Feeling Out of Place: Friendship and Community Building Across Difference / Nozomi (Nakaganeku) Saito
20. Where Are You From? / Adriane Pereira
21. Karachi, “First Worlds,” and the Spaces in Between / Saba Fatima and Sana Rizvi
22. Asian American Feminism, Letter Writing, and the Possibility of Brea(d)th / Lan Duong
23. The Water and the Bridge: Dilemmas of In-betweenness / Manisha Sharma
PART 5. MOTHERING AND SISTERING
24. Sissy My Playmate; Sissy My Enemy; Hand-Check-Slap / Sama Alshaibi
25. The Difference Is—My Lived Experience! / Sonia Bassheva Mañjon
26. Not So Micro / Rae Scott
27. All of It / Dionne Custer Edwards
28. we work / we sweat / Kaliah D. Pitts
PART 6. PARADOXES AND PERSONIFICATIONS OF EXPRESSION
29. Ain’t We Clever Too? / Pamela Harris Lawton
30. Julia Pastrana and the Eye of the Beholder / Woodard and Anderson Barbata
31. Consent and Female Desire in India / Nisha Ghatak
32. Dear BLACK Woman / Amber C. Coleman
33. For Rachel Dolezal Who Performs Black Womanhood When White Privilege Isn’t Enuf / Tyiesha Radford Shorts
PART 7. SPEAKING INTERSECTIONAL TRUTHS
34. Toward a Politic of Preemptive Care / Tahereh Aghdasifar
35. In the Name of Diversity—A Sisters’ Conversation / Sister Scholars
36. Open Love Letter to My Younger Self, a Young Black Butch Working Through Her Shit / Brittney Edmonds
37. From Paperback to Praxis: In Search of Filipina/x Feminisms in the Diaspora / Batac, Stohner, and Villanueva Danan
38. “Ain’t I a Woman?”: Sojourner Truth in 1851 vs. a Black Sex-Trafficked Woman Survivor in the Present / Jacquelyn C. A. Meshelemiah
39. A Love Letter to Ourselves: Self-Love as a Revolutionary Act, Theories of the Flesh, and (In)Compatible Identities / Hernández and De Los Santos Upton
PART 8. SENSE MAKING AND EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE
40. This Bridge: Intergenerational Story Archive, Re-rooting Solidarity / Susy Zepeda
41. Excavating and Embracing Anger: An Abolitionist Practice Within / Stephanie Cariaga
42. How to Make Collard Greens / Olivia Richardson
43. Recognize / Kaia Angelica Lyons
44. Endarkened Preludes to Womanhood / Kendra Johnson
45. The Black Woman Coalition / Lisa Whittington
PART 9. JUSTICE AND HEALING IN TIMES OF CRISIS
46. To Healing Heridas con Corazónes of Generations: A Testimonio / Gabriela Arredondo
47. Hasta Encontrarlos / Until We Find Them / Gia del Pino
48. El Nuevo Mundo / Johanna Castillo
49. ¡No Más Babosadas! Realigning Central American Femme Subjectivity in Our Narratives / Chela E. Hernandez
50. Say Her Name / Ashley Crooks-Allen
PART 10. REMEMBERING THIS BRIDGE: LOVE LETTERS
51. Bridge Work Ahead: Women of Color Liberatory Pedagogies, Then and Now / Mel Michelle Lewis
52. My Black is Beautiful / Gertrude Swan
53. A Declaration of Gratitude for the Tongues We Speak / Fabiane Ramos
54. Coming into My Feminista Ways with This Bridge Called My Back / Judith Flores Carmona
55. Wa Gago: An International Student’s Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back / Kholofelo Theledi
Postscript: Meditations and Musings / wilson, Acuff, and Kraehe
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