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Author: Tara T. Green

Tara T. Green is professor of African American and African Diaspora studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she teaches gender studies and literature courses. She is author of the forthcoming Love, Activism and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson (Bloomsbury) and See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure during the Interwar Era (Rutgers). For more information, see drtaratgreen.com.
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Black Women and Pleasure: Ancestral Lessons We Should Learn

Tara T. Green
Black Women and Pleasure: Ancestral Lessons We Should Learn

In the age of COVID, and the ongoing fight for voting rights and against anti-abortion legislation, it’s worth exploring: How did Black women tap into their spirits to find moments of pleasure? To practice self-care? Born in 1875, our foremother Alice Dunbar-Nelson provides a model for us.

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