Always Buildin' Bridges: Women of Color, Endarkened Work, and Education That (Re)Members

• In Event: Living This Bridge Called Our Backs: An Intergenerational Dialogue by Women of Color

Abstract

Cherrie Moraga (1981) states: “We are a family…who have come together on these pages to make faith a reality and to bring all of our selves to bear down hard on that reality” (p. xix). Just as Moraga and Anzaldua (1981) literally and metaphorically marshaled bridge as a way of being women of color in solidarity, as knowledge producers, and as seekers of spiritual and emotional health against relentless oppressions and violence. But the bridge was also praxis: It was our way of engaging across differences and a call to action for feminists of color and allies. This paper theorizes such bridgework as acts of (re)membering (Dillard, 2012) in contemporary struggles for education and public life.

Author

• Cynthia B. Dillard, University of Georgia