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Walidah Imarisha

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Walidah Imarisha is a writer, public scholar, educator and spoken word artist. She co-edited the anthology Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, and was one of the editors of the first anthology about 9/11, Another World is Possible. She authored Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prisons, and Redemption, winner of the 2017 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, as well as a poetry collection Scars/Stars. Imarisha is currently working on a book about Oregon Black history, forthcoming from AK Press. Her work has appeared in dozens of publications, including the hip hop anthology Total Chaos: The Art And Aesthetics of Hip Hop, Letters From Young Activists, Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in ...more

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	Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements by Adrienne Maree Brown (Editor/Contributor), Walidah Imarisha (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), Sheree Renée Thomas (Foreword) 3.93 avg rating — 4,307 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption 4.50 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Sci-Fi Short Stories by Temi Oh (Foreword), Sandra M. Grayson (Introduction), Tia Ross (Editorial contributor) 3.75 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sycorax's Daughters by Kinitra Brooks (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Walidah Imarisha (Goodreads Author), Linda D. Addison (Editor) 4.05 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany by Nisi Shawl (Editor), Bill Campbell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Fábio Fernandes (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.43 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women Invent the Future: A Science Fiction Anthology by Maggie Aderin-Pocock (Foreward), Madeline Ashby (Goodreads Author), Anne Charnock (Goodreads Author) 3.60 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Another World Is Possible by Beka Economopoulos (Editor), Jeremy Glick (Editor), Walidah Imarisha (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scars/Stars 4.32 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Knaves: A Blackguards Anthology (3) by Melanie R. Meadors (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alana Joli Abbott (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Maurice Broaddus (Goodreads Author) 3.50 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sunspot Jungle: Volume Two: The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction by Bill Campbell (Goodreads Author) (editor), Daniel José Older (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Raquel Castro (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Our ancestors dreamed us up and then bent reality to create us.”
― Walidah Imarisha, Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

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“And for those of us from communities with historic collective trauma, we must understand that each of us is already science fiction walking around on two legs. Our ancestors dreamed us up and then bent reality to create us.”
― Walidah Imarisha, Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

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“Because many of the people who were taken by the wasting disease happened to be white, God was not a viable culprit.”
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“Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.”
― Mumia Abu-Jamal

tags: cages, oppression, prison

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“here and there
in the barrios and the favelas,
among those who have least,
beat hearts of hope,
fly sparks of Overcoming. ”
― Mumia Abu-Jamal, Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience

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“i want to apologize to all the women i have called beautiful
before i’ve called them intelligent or brave
i am sorry i made it sound as though
something as simple as what you’re born with
is all you have to be proud of
when you have broken mountains with your wit
from now on i will say things like
you are resilient, or you are extraordinary
not because i don’t think you’re beautiful
but because i need you to know
you are more than that”
― Rupi Kaur

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