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“The fact that we are here and that [we] speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken” – Audre Lorde Photo by Maybelline McCoy The time between mid-July till mid-September is rough for me. July 11th and September 13th bookend my summer as the dates of two of my sexual assaults. Some people name the date the “annive

Black Feminist Reflections from Goree Island, The Reproductive Potentials of the Middle Passage Waters, and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade we will wear new bones again. we will leave these rainy days, break out through another mouth into sun and honey time. -Lucille Clifton, “new bones” Introduction In Search of Our Mother’s Waters: Forced Water Crossings and Chosen Water Burials To approach the dock of Goree Island from the city of Dakar, Senegal by way of New York City (for

Rarely is gender and violence against women considered when the plight of people of African descent are addressed. The Black Women’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is inherently a transnational initiative with a diasporic analysis and international implications for full achievement of recognition, justice and development, which are the objectives of the International Decade of People of African Descent. From April 28-May 2, 2016 women of African descent and their allies