To Make Visible Everywhere: Our Bold, Beautiful, Aging Bodies
Gabri Christa guest edited this issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online (Summer 2023) along with Sheril Antonio. Gabri also contributed “Some History and an Introduction,” “Sheila: A Short, Experimental Documentary,” and “Sajda: A Celebration” to the issue.
AN EXCERPT
This journal issue aims to make visible the bodies of aging Women of Color in society and culture through an interdisciplinary framework that includes sociology, film studies, performance studies, photography, film, poetry, and dance. 1 With Dr. Sheril Antonio, my co-editor, I sent a very open invitation to a group of very different writers and practitioners asking them to respond to the issue of aging for women of color, and looking for answers unique to each person’s experience. The resulting contributions include poetry, photos, interviews, essays, and, in my own case and a few others, films. What has come together in this issue is a conversation among friends with different creative and intellectual orientations, living in different cities and on different continents, talking together from our different perspectives about aging.
Christa, Gabri. "Some History and an Introduction." In The Scholar and Feminist Online, no. 19.1 To Make Visible Everywhere: Our Bold, Beautiful, Aging Bodies, guest edited by Sheril Antonio and Gabri Christa. New York, NY: Barnard Center for Research on Women, Summer 2023.
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