Colonize This! Young Women of Color on

A collection of writings by women of color introduces new themes of familynd mixed ethnicity into the ongoing conversation about feminism and feministalues.

Daisy Hernandez has written a column for Ms. magazine and contributed to Sex and Single Girls. She is working on a book about bilingualism and her Cuban-Colombian family and is a member of Will (Women in Literature and Letters), a women of color-centered collective. She lives in Fairview, New Jersey. Bushra Rehman is a Pakistani from Queens, NY, a feminist, activist, performer, and writer. She has written a collection of poetry, Marianna's Beauty Salon, and is working on a novel. She lives in New Rochelle, New York.

Foreword
Introduction
browngirlworld: queergirlofcolor organizing, sistahood, heartbreak	p. 3
Colonize This!	p. 17
Organizing 101: A Mixed-Race Feminist in Movements for Social Justice	p. 29
Man of the House	p. 40
What Happens When Your Hood is the Last Stop on the White Flight Express?	p. 54
HIV and Me: The Chicana Version	p. 71
Love Feminism but Where's My Hip Hop?: Shaping a Black Feminist Identity	p. 85
Black Feminism In Everyday Life: Race, Mental Illness, Poverty And Motherhood	p. 99
In Praise of Difficult Chicas: Feminism and Femininity	p. 119
Love Clinic	p. 133
Dutiful Hijas: Dependency, Power and Guilt	p. 142
Femme-Inism: Lessons of My Mother	p. 157
Feminist Musings on the No. 3 Train	p. 170
Thirty-Eight	p. 182
Chappals and Gym Shorts: An Indian Muslim Woman in the Land of Oz	p. 203
"Because You're a Girl"	p. 215
Bring Us Back into the Dance: Women of the Wasase	p. 230
Ladies Only	p. 245
I Sold My Soul to Rock and Roll	p. 257
Lost in the Indophile Translation: A Validation of My Experience	p. 268
Heartbroken: Women of Color Feminism and the Third Wave	p. 279
It's Not an Oxymoron: The Search for an Arab Feminism	p. 295
Falling off the Tightrope onto a Bed of Feathers	p. 312
How Sexual Harassment Slaughtered, Then Saved Me	p. 326
Living Outside the Box	p. 343
The Black Beauty Myth	p. 357
Nasaan ka anak ko? A Queer Filipina-American Feminist's Tale of Abortion and Self-Recovery	p. 370
Can I Get a Witness? Testimony from a Hip Hop Feminist	p. 382
Notes	p. 395
About the Contributors	p. 397
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Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism

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