IN THIS ISSUE
Introduction: Singing a “Black Girl’s Song” at Barnard and Beyond
by Kim F. Hall and Monica L. Miller
About this Issue
by Tami Navarro
Recommended Reading and Online Resources
by Vani Natarajan
PART 1
We are an interdisciplinary culture / we understand more than verbal communication
“Everything you do . . .”: Recipes from Ntozake Shange’s Art/Work
by Jennifer DeVere Brody
Learning How to Listen: Ntozake Shange’s Work as Aesthetic Primer
by Farah Jasmine Griffin
Indigo Generations: Shange in Praxis and Being the Folk
by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
PART 2
A Poetic Possibility / A Poetic Imperative: for colored girls
“walkin on the edges of the galaxy”: Queer Choreopoetic Thought in the African Diaspora
by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
“There is No Incongruence Here”: Hispanic Notes in the Works of Ntozake Shange
by Vanessa K. Valdés
Black Feminist Collectivity in Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
by Soyica Diggs Colbert
Ntozake Shange on Stage and Screen
a video featuring Ntozake Shange, Soyica Diggs Colbert, and Monica L. Miller
A Hole in the Sky
a choreopoem and video by Niyi Osundare
PART 3
Moving our theater into the drama of our lives: Performing Shange
Project “For Colored Girls:” Breaking the shackles of role deprivation through prison theatre
by Lorraine Moller
Monologues for Colored Girls: Shange’s Influence on Barnard’s All Women-of-Color Vagina Monologues
by Victoria Durden
the survival and the remaking: Interview with Performer Robbie McCauley on black history, universality, and for colored girls
by Kathryn Tobin
“I Think Good Theater Just Translates”: Interview with Playwright Mũmbi Kaigwa
by Chris Cynn
“There’s Trouble Out There”: Interview with Director Wole Oguntokun
by Chris Cynn
“It’s OK to Create Art from Wounded Spaces”: Video Interview with Filmmaker Stacey Muhammad
by Gabrielle Davenport
PART 4
Lotsa body and cultural heritage: Shange’s legacy
Her Pen is a Machete: The Art of Ntozake Shange
a video by Hope Dector, Kim F. Hall, and Monica L. Miller | featuring Soyica Diggs Colbert, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Vanessa K. Valdés, Jennifer DeVere Brody, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Moving Across Disciplines and Genres: Teaching Shange
a video by Hope Dector, Kim F. Hall, and Monica L. Miller | featuring Monica L. Miller, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Kim F. Hall, Mariel Rodney, Jennifer DeVere Brody, and Soyica Diggs Colbert
Performing Shange
a video featuring Ebonie Smith, Katherine Bergstrom, Gabrielle Davenport, Victoria Durden, Sarah Esser, Taylor Harvey and Simone Sobers
A Conversation with Ntozake Shange and Dianne McIntyre
a video featuring discussion moderated by Paul Scolieri