Joseph R. Fitzgerald

Barbara Smith's biographer

[Joseph R. Fitzgerald @BarbaraSmithBio]

Want to see how the #BlackRadicalTradition makes sense of the world?

Here's a thread on how @TheBarbaraSmith was able to predict just how destructive #45's admin would be, and still is.

Walk with me along this path of understanding...

[Joseph R. Fitzgerald @BarbaraSmithBio]

Read it. Learn it. Live it.

@TheBarbaraSmith @blkwomenradical @sandylocks @blkwomenstudies

“If Black Women Were Free”: An Oral History of the Combahee River Collective via @thenation https://t.co/GwNJNA2dRV

[Joseph R. Fitzgerald @BarbaraSmithBio]

And here's the accompanying video to the piece:

https://t.co/TzcFfjTp00

[Joseph R. Fitzgerald @BarbaraSmithBio]

@TheBarbaraSmith in @timesunion newspaper:
https://t.co/oW3TPb0f3Z

[Joseph R. Fitzgerald @BarbaraSmithBio]

Today's Google Doodle is Hisaye Yamamoto, a #KitchenTablePress author.

Here's @PublishersWkly's 1988 review of her KTP work, "Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories."

@TheBarbaraSmith

https://t.co/RuxagScEMA

[Joseph R. Fitzgerald @BarbaraSmithBio]

@TheBarbaraSmith's advice to @POTUS:

"What Joe Biden should say about white supremacy"
https://t.co/uLICSAW5Ug

[Joseph R. Fitzgerald @BarbaraSmithBio]

And another one by @TheBarbaraSmith:

https://t.co/sHmaWsRHn5

[Joseph R. Fitzgerald @BarbaraSmithBio]

And another one by @TheBarbaraSmith:

https://t.co/sHmaWsRHn5

[Joseph R. Fitzgerald @BarbaraSmithBio]

And here's another one from @TheBarbaraSmith

https://t.co/V0TRdAsRCK

[Joseph R. Fitzgerald @BarbaraSmithBio]

And here's another one from @TheBarbaraSmith

https://t.co/V0TRdAsRCK

[CBFS @SchomburgCBFS]

In case you're following along https://t.co/FILZFFc5cD

[Joseph R. Fitzgerald @BarbaraSmithBio]

It's on NOW!!!

Log in.

[NYPL Events @NYPLEvents]

Tonight, 4/1 at 6:30 PM, join a conversation with @TheBarbaraSmith, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Charisse Burden-Stelly (@blackleftaf) on the relationship between Black activists and the socialist movement. Register for the free, virtual @SchomburgCenter event! https://t.co/khWNZvtIiP

[Barbara Smith @TheBarbaraSmith]

If you blew up my Twitter last week about #IdentityPolitics here's an opportunity to find out more about the #CombaheeRiverCollective. I can't wait to hear Robin's & Charisse's insights about freedom struggles, past and present. @smithcaringcirc @TiffanyDCross @blkwomenradical

[Joseph R. Fitzgerald @BarbaraSmithBio]

Tomorrow is the 1st Thursday of the month.

So what's that mean? It means @SchomburgCenter's @SchomburgCBFS are droppin’ knowledge.

If you want to get schooled on #BlackSocialism by @TheBarbaraSmith & @blackleftaf & Robin Kelley, you gotta register.

Do that here 👇👇👇

[CBFS @SchomburgCBFS]

This is a great primer for our conversation with Dr. Kelley this Thursday at 6:30 at the @SchomburgCenter Register here: https://t.co/aA2Xr69B2S

[Joseph R. Fitzgerald @BarbaraSmithBio]

TY, @_heyjackson!

You link New Directions (1981) where @TheBarbaraSmith & other #KitchenTable founders discuss their mission (p6).

ALSO she & #AkashaGloriaHull talk #BlackWomensStudies (p11).

How Kitchen Table Press Changed Publishing https://t.co/hIr599czHT via @JSTOR_Daily

[Joseph R. Fitzgerald @BarbaraSmithBio]

Yes!

And when you search the #WorldCat library database you'll see that #KitchenTable works are in libraries around THE WORLD.

#OriginalInfluencers

[Barbara Smith @TheBarbaraSmith]

Some of the access that women of color authors now have to mainstream publishing and the recognition of the value of their writing can be traced back to Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. @smithcaringcirc @TiffanyDCross @JoyAnnReid @BarbaraSmithBio @srsable7290

[Joseph R. Fitzgerald @BarbaraSmithBio]

YES, TODAY!

@TheBarbaraSmith and @LorettaJRoss go way back.

After you watch/listen to today's talk, you can go back to their 2003 interview to see how Ms. Smith has been showing us the way forward. For decades. (https://t.co/bzJnfZwayc)

[Barbara Smith @TheBarbaraSmith]

TODAY! I hope you will join us. It's been a long time since @LorettaJRoss & I have had a conversation. I look forward to it. @Koalani @blkwomenradical @M_Lipshutz @JeanneTheoharis @emahlee @ekhobson @citeblackwomen @KeishaBlain @Ca_Rule @dem8z @BarbaraSmithBio @smithcaringcirc

[Joseph R. Fitzgerald @BarbaraSmithBio]

Looking forward to this!!!

[Koa Beck @Koalani]

On Monday, I’m moderating a discussion “at” @Kennedy_School between @TheBarbaraSmith and Dr. Benita Roth, two writers and thinkers I admire deeply and who I cite in #whitefeminism. This event is free & open to the public.
https://t.co/XjSav25VQ5

[Barbara Smith @TheBarbaraSmith]

I enjoyed a lively conversation with @CBCSunday host @piya about what @POTUS can say and do about #WhiteSupremacy. (The interview starts at the 16.0 minute mark.) @smithcaringcirc @markemanatian @orianah8sithere

[Michelle Moravec @ProfessMoravec]

hear what one of the founders and most influential voices of feminism has to say about this historic moment as the inauguration draws near

[Joseph R. Fitzgerald @BarbaraSmithBio]

@TheBarbaraSmith: Thanks 4 this assessment of our #ForeverNationalProblem

"The United States has never seriously considered its robust and poisonous system of white supremacy an impediment to its well-being or ability to function. Maybe now it will."

#TheProblemIsWhiteSupremacy

[Joseph R. Fitzgerald @BarbaraSmithBio]

"The myth of white racial superiority and dominance is in many ways a baseless conspiracy theory, but unlike other fallacies, America is built on this one, and it has provided tangible economic advantages to white people for centuries."

https://t.co/wmcQo8XIDP via @BostonGlobe

[Joseph R. Fitzgerald @BarbaraSmithBio]

"The myth of white racial superiority and dominance is in many ways a baseless conspiracy theory, but unlike other fallacies, America is built on this one, and it has provided tangible economic advantages to white people for centuries."

https://t.co/wmcQo8XIDP via @BostonGlobe

[Joseph R. Fitzgerald @BarbaraSmithBio]

Thanks, @offbeatorbit, for this piece on #IdentityPolitics.

(Also gotta say that I LOVE that pic of Ms. @TheBarbaraSmith!!!)

https://t.co/XYYJrRO1RX

[Barbara Smith @TheBarbaraSmith]

Tragically #WhiteSupremacy is still with us. Here is my new op. ed. outlining what I would like @JoeBiden to say and do about it. #EndWhiteSupremacy #HamerBakerPlan @GlobeOpinion
https://t.co/5eveI4yQE6