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We Want Our Bodies Back

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We Want Our Bodies Back

By: Jessica Care Moore
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A dazzling full-length collection of verse from one of the leading spoken word poets of our time.

Over the past two decades, Jessica Care Moore has become a cultural force as a poet, performer, publisher, activist, and critic. Reflecting her transcendent electric voice, this searing poetry collection is filled with moving, original stanzas that speak to both Black women’s creative and intellectual power, and express the pain, sadness, and anger of those who suffer constant scrutiny because of their gender and race. Fierce and passionate, Jessica Care Moore argues that Black women spend their lives building a physical and emotional shelter to protect themselves from misogyny, criminalization, hatred, stereotypes, sexual assault, objectification, patriarchy, and death threats.

We Want Our Bodies Back is an exploration - and defiant stance against - these many attacks.

©2020 Jessica Care Moore (P)2020 HarperAudio African American Poetry Racism & Discrimination Social Sciences Discrimination
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Thank you!! Thank you!! Thank you!!! I watched you as a preteen on the Apollo💜

This soul needed this. I am a body that’s not lost but I need to uncover what’s already there.

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A beautiful collection of poems inspiring not just for black women but for all people and races this is a book I can definitely less than two over and over again

Beautiful book

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Quintessential embodiment of the Black woman’s experiences in this world. Jessica finds the words to say what so many of us feel. Masterful!

Ode to Black women

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Thank you for reopening my eyes to the travesty of suffrage to the lack of care done by others to the bodies and minds of our people of color. I’d forgotten/put away the painful memories of the many brothers and sisters lost by way of murder from a sick and mixed up society of folks who cannot/will not move forward, but indeed are stuck in the past in their own body and mind that we are not human.
Thank you sister Jessica Care Moore for poetically reminding me to say their name....forever. And thank you to Karen Hunter of Sirius XM for recommending your book as a must read. It was definitely a must read. So I shall pass the word on.

Sincerely,
ME

Eye Opening

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of and to Black Women! This is complete and utter entire perfection. Give this to our mamas our neices our sisters and brothers. This Black Woman's poetry voice is everything.

Listen RIGHT NOW to JESSICA CARE MOORE!

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Jessica Care Moore is a wonderful writer and performer. I thought that her work had depth and I wish more people would take the time to listen to her. With that being said, I think there was a lot of repetition of theme and language to the point where I really got tired of hearing one specific poet’s name over and over.

We Want Our Bodies Back is exceptional

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