![]() ![]() ![]() So Moraga designed her own degree in feminist writings, aspiring to create a new feminist canon that reflected her own experience as a queer woman of color. At the time, there was no such thing as an academic program in gender, feminist or women’s studies at SFSU. As a lesbian woman of mestiza Chicana, Native and white ancestry, she was searching for a program-or a movement-that she felt spoke to her and her experiences. Moraga began her masters’ program at San Francisco State University in 1977. The foundations of a new, intersectional feminism ![]() This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, first published in 1981, is a landmark of women of color feminist writing that explores, as co-editor Cherríe Moraga puts it, “the complex confluence of identities-race, class, gender and sexuality-systemic to women of color oppression and liberation.” Thirty-five years later, Bridge continues to reflect an evolving definition of feminism that can help us understand the changing economic and social conditions of women of color everywhere.Ĭelebrating the fourth reissue of the book, Moraga presented at a spring 2016 quarterly Artists’ Salon sponsored by the Clayman Institute. She read several passages from the book aloud, recounted the story of the book’s origins, and explored its continuing significance. She also commemorated several of the book’s contributors who have died, including her friend and co-editor, Gloria Anzaldúa. ![]()
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