Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around

By Barbara Smith, Virginia Eubanks, Alethia Jones

Subjects: Interviews, Gay liberation movement, Biography, Civil rights, united states, Civil rights movements, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, LGBTQ biography and memoir, Civil rights workers, History, LGBTQ history, collection:judy_grahn_award=winner

Description: As an organizer, writer, publisher, scholar-activist, and elected official, Barbara Smith has played key roles in multiple social justice movements, including Civil Rights, feminism, lesbian and gay liberation, anti-racism, and Black feminism. Her four decades of grassroots activism forged collaborations that introduced the idea that oppression must be fought on a variety of fronts simultaneously, including gender, race, class, and sexuality. By combining hard-to-find historical documents with new unpublished interviews with fellow activists, this book uncovers the deep roots of today’s “identity politics” and “intersectionality” and serves as an essential primer for practicing solidarity and resistance.