title: Unpacking Pat Parker: Intersections and Revolutions in "Movement in Black".
abstract: This article explores Pat Parker's poem "Movement in Black." It examines the ways in which she emblematizes intersectionality and simultaneity as forms of revolution in struggles of self and society. It begins with a theoretical and historical apparatus to contextualize Parker as an artist and activist. Then it offers a literary analysis of the poem, focusing on themes of time and space, marginalization and movement, difference and power, visibility and invisibility, and history and memory. It argues that Parker uses autobiographical writing to fuse personal and political sites of resistance.
authors.affiliation: a Department of English, Women's and Gender Studies Program, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY , Brooklyn , NY , USA.
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Washburn
mesh_terms: D003405:Creativity; D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism / Q000266:history*; D033062:Friends; D049673:History, 20th Century; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D011037:Poetry as Topic / Q000266:history*; D012938:Social Perception; D014481:United States
keywords: Black lesbian feminism; intersectionality; revolutionary autobiography; social movements history