ESSAYS

 

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens  (1983) essays

Living By the Word  (1988) essays

Warrior Marks  (1991) essays and Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women  (1991) documentary with Pratibha Parmar

The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996) essays

Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism (1997) essays

 


The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult, 1996

describes through essays and journal entries the loss of her beloved mother, the break-up of her 13-year relationship with Robert Allen, her own battle with lymes disease and depression, and her awakening sense of bi-sexuality

 

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, 1983

Walker explores the theories and practices of feminists and feminism, incorporating what she calls the "womanist" tradition of black women. And in a vivid and courageous memoir she tells of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter's healing words."

 


Living By the Word

Warrior Marks

 
Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism, 1997

about religion and spirit, writing and language, families and identity, politics and social change