Beverly Smith
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Beverly Smith in Cleveland, Ohio
is a Black feminist health advocate, writer, academic, theorist and activist who is also the twin sister of writer, publisher, activist and academic Barbara Smith
. Beverly Smith is an instructor of Women's Health
at the University of Massachusetts
, Boston
.http://openvault.wgbh.org/saybrother/MLA001104/index.html
She was one of three authors of the famous Combahee River Collective Statement, "one of the most widely read discussions of Black feminism
," which was developed by several members of the National Black Feminist Organization
in 1977. Her essays and articles on racism
, feminism
, identity politics
and women's health
have been extensively published in the United States.
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...
is a Black feminist health advocate, writer, academic, theorist and activist who is also the twin sister of writer, publisher, activist and academic Barbara Smith
Barbara Smith
Barbara Smith in Cleveland is an American, lesbian feminist who has played a significant role in building and sustaining Black Feminism in the United States. Since the early 1970s she has been active as an innovative critic, teacher, lecturer, author, independent scholar, and publisher of Black...
. Beverly Smith is an instructor of Women's Health
Women's health
Women's health refers to health issues specific to human female anatomy. These often relate to structures such as female genitalia and breasts or to conditions caused by hormones specific to, or most notable in, females. Women's health issues include menstruation, contraception, maternal health,...
at the University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts
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, Boston
Boston
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.http://openvault.wgbh.org/saybrother/MLA001104/index.html
She was one of three authors of the famous Combahee River Collective Statement, "one of the most widely read discussions of Black feminism
Black feminism
Black feminism argues that sexism, class oppression, and racism are inextricably bound together. Forms of feminism that strive to overcome sexism and class oppression. The Combahee River Collective argued in 1974 that the liberation of black women entails freedom for all people, since it would...
," which was developed by several members of the National Black Feminist Organization
National black feminist organization
The National Black Feminist Organization was founded in 1973. The group worked to address the unique issues affecting black women in America. Founding members included Michele Wallace, Faith Ringgold, Doris Wright and Margaret Sloan-Hunter. They borrowed the office of the New York City chapter of...
in 1977. Her essays and articles on racism
Racism
Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination. In the modern English language, the term "racism" is used predominantly as a pejorative epithet. It is applied especially to the practice or advocacy of racial discrimination of a pernicious nature...
, feminism
Feminism
Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...
, identity politics
Identity politics
Identity politics are political arguments that focus upon the self interest and perspectives of self-identified social interest groups and ways in which people's politics may be shaped by aspects of their identity through race, class, religion, sexual orientation or traditional dominance...
and women's health
Women's health
Women's health refers to health issues specific to human female anatomy. These often relate to structures such as female genitalia and breasts or to conditions caused by hormones specific to, or most notable in, females. Women's health issues include menstruation, contraception, maternal health,...
have been extensively published in the United States.
Periodicals
- Conditions (magazine)Conditions (magazine)Conditions was a lesbian feminist literary annual founded in 1976 in Brooklyn, New York by Elly Bulkin, Jan Clausen, Irena Klepfisz and Rima Shore.-Publishing Collective:Conditions was a magazine which emphasised the lives and writings of lesbians, and, throughout its...
Five, The Black Women's Issue, Nov. 1979; - Conditions (magazine)Conditions (magazine)Conditions was a lesbian feminist literary annual founded in 1976 in Brooklyn, New York by Elly Bulkin, Jan Clausen, Irena Klepfisz and Rima Shore.-Publishing Collective:Conditions was a magazine which emphasised the lives and writings of lesbians, and, throughout its...
Four, Smith, Barbara, and Beverly. I Am Not Meant to be Alone and Without You Who Understand: Letters From Black Feminists, 1972-1978, Winter 1978 http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subjects/blackfeminism/bio.html - Sinister WisdomSinister WisdomSinister Wisdom is a multicultural, lesbian literary & art journal by and for lesbians. The magazine is the oldest surviving lesbian literary journal; now more than 30 years in print...
- various issues - Barbara Smith and Beverly Smith, The Varied Voices of Black Women, Sojourner (magazine), Oct 1978
- Ms. MagazineMs. magazineMs. is an American feminist magazine co-founded by American feminist and activist Gloria Steinem and founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin together with founding editors Patricia Carbine, Joanne Edgar, Nina Finkelstein, and Mary Peacock, that first appeared in 1971 as an insert in New York magazine...
http://www.msmagazine.com/- various issues - Aegis Journal,1983, Some Thoughts on Racism
Anthologies
- Smith, Beverly. The Wedding, from Home GirlsHome GirlsHome Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology is a collection of Black lesbian and Black feminist writing, edited by Barbara Smith. The anthology was first published in 1983 by Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, and was reissued by Rutgers University Press in 2000 ....
: A Black Feminist Anthology, 1983, ed. Barbara Smith Kitchen Table: Women of Color PressKitchen Table: Women of Color PressKitchen Table: Women of Color Press was an activist feminist press started in 1980 by author Barbara Smith at the suggestion of her friend, poet Audre Lorde.-Beginnings:... - Combahee River Collective Statement, authored with Barbara Smith and Demita Frazier
- Smith, Barbara & Beverly. Across the Kitchen Table: A Sister-to-Sister Dialogue., from This Bridge Called My BackThis Bridge Called My BackThis Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color is a feminist anthology edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa. The anthology was first published in 1981 by Persephone Press, and the second edition was published in 1984 by Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press...
: Writings by Radical Women of Color, eds. Cherríe MoragaCherríe MoragaCherríe L. Moraga is a Chicana writer, feminist activist, poet, essayist, and playwright.-Biography:Moraga was born in Whittier, California. She earned her Bachelor's degree from Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles, California and her Master's from San Francisco State University in 1980...
and Gloria Anzaldúa, Persephone Press, 1981. - Smith, Beverly. Black Women's Health: Notes for a Course, in But Some of Us are Brave: Black Women's Studies, Hull, Gloria T., Scott, Patricia Bell, Smith, Barbara, eds. The Feminist PressThe Feminist PressThe Feminist Press is an independent nonprofit literary publisher that promotes freedom of expression and social justice. It publishes exciting writing by women and men who share an activist spirit and a belief in choice and equality...
, 1982 ISBN 0912670959 - Smith, Beverly. Face-to-Face, Day-to-day — Racism Consciousness Raising, A conversation with Tia Cross, Freada Klein & Beverly Smith, in But Some of Us are Brave: Black Women's Studies, Hull, Gloria T., Scott, Patricia Bell, Smith, Barbara, eds. Feminist Press, 1982 ISBN 0912670959
- Smith, Beverly. Choosing Ourselves: Black Women and Abortion, From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom: Transforming a Movement, ed. Marlene Gerber Fried, South End Press, 1990 p86