Commentary: The story behind ‘Black Girls Don’t Get Love’
The goal of “Black Girls Don’t Get Love” is to use storytelling to foster community among women and girls of color.
The goal of “Black Girls Don’t Get Love” is to use storytelling to foster community among women and girls of color.
Ithaca College students, professors and community members will contribute their writing and performance arts to celebrate two of the most influential black female writers in the literary canon, Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde.
Seek out the writing of those you have not yet listened to, and encourage others, even those not your friends, to do the same.
Ithaca College’s Women and Gender Studies Program will host Gloria Joseph, professor emerita of Africana Studies at Hampshire College and partner of the late Audre Lorde, to discuss the poet’s life.
Sitting on Derek Adams’ desk in the Muller Faculty Center is a copy of Percival Everett’s novel “I Am Not Sidney Poitier,” a story about a character who is consistently mistaken for Academy Award–winning actor Sidney Poitier. The character decides to travel the U.S. and discover who he is so people will stop labelling him as someone he is not.