This Bridge Called My Back, Fortieth Anniversary Edition by Cherríe Moraga

Author:Cherríe Moraga [Moraga, Cherríe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781438488271
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2022-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

While lesbian-feminism does threaten the black man’s predatory control of black women, its goal as a political ideology and philosophy is not to take the black man’s or any man’s position on top.

Black lesbians who do work within “by-for-about-black-people” groups or organizations either pass as “straight” or relegate our lesbianism to the so-called “private” sphere. The more male-dominated or black nationalist bourgeois the organization or group, the more resistant to change, and thus, the more homophobic and anti-feminist. In these sectors, we learn to keep a low profile.

In 1979, at the annual conference of a regional chapter of the National Black Social Workers, the national director of that body was given a standing ovation for the following remarks:

Homosexuals are even accorded minority status now. … And white women, too. And some of you black women who call yourselves feminists will be sitting up in meetings with the same white women who will be stealing your men on the sly.

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