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08/11 at Big Blue Marble - The Power of Black Women's Stories
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, author of "Blue Talk and Love," and Tamara Winfrey Harris, author of "The Sisters Are Alright"
Tuesday August 11th at 7 pm
Big Blue Marble Bookstore
The Power of Black Women’s Stories
with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, author of the short story collection “Blue Talk and Love,” and Tamara Winfrey Harris, author of “The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women”
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is the author of the short story collection Blue Talk and Love. Born and raised in Harlem, New York, she has received the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, the James Baldwin Memorial Playwriting Award, and honors and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Bread Loaf, Yaddo, the Mellon Foundation, and the Center for Fiction in New York City. Her work has appeared in Callaloo, Best New Writing, American Fiction, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, Feminist Studies, Ebony.com, The Root.com, and The Feminist Wire, where she is Associate Editor for Arts & Culture. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature, and is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Tamara Winfrey Harris specializes in the intersection of race and gender with current events, politics, and pop culture. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, In These Times, Ms., and Bitch magazine and online at Fusion, The American Prospect, Salon, the Guardian, Newsweek/Daily Beast, XOJane, The Huffington Post, Psychology Today, Change.org and Clutch magazine. She has been called to address women’s issues for major media outlets, including Ebony and NPR’s “Weekend Edition.”