"My association with Aunt Lute Books began with Borderlands. I was in Minnesota for the Great Midwestern Book Show, on a panel with several writers discussing whether the writer should be an engaged writer. A couple of black male writers on the panel attacked Alice Walker and other black women writers, accusing them of emasculating black men in their writings. Then they turned on me, and the facilitator, who was inexperienced, didn't intervene. From the audience, Barbara Smith, writer and cofounder of Kitchen Table Press, spoke up on behalf of Alice Walker and all the other people. She was great."
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LGBT peopleWomen authors from the United StatesSocialists from the United StatesAfrican-American feminists20th-century African-American women
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Gloria E. AnzaldĂşa interview in Backtalk: women writers speak out by Donna Marie Perry (1993)
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