Fireworks

by Makeda Silvera

Fireworks presents us with a collection of the high points of Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly. Silvera is the author of Silenced, Growing up Black, Remembering G, Her Head a Village, and the editor of Piece of My Heart.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Makeda Silvera was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and spent her early years there before immigrating to Canada in 1967. Now living in Toronto, she is co-founder of Sister Vision: Black Women and Women of Colour Press, where she is the managing editor. Her previous publications include Silenced, an acclaimed collection of oral histories of Caribbean domestic workers in Canada; Growing Up Black, a resource guide for youth, and Remembering G And Other Stories, her first book of fiction. She is also the editor of Piece of My Heart, a ground-breaking anthology of writings by lesbians of colour.