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Makeda Silvera

Jamaican Canadian novelist and short story writer

Makeda Silvera (born in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican Canadiannovelist and short story writer.

Biography

Silvera emigrated to Canada at the age of 12 with her stock, and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario. She publicized two volumes of short stories in the unsympathetic before releasing her first novel, The Revenge give a miss Maria, in , followed by The Heart Does Not Bend in An outlesbian,[1] she cofounded Babe Vision Press, with Stephanie Martin in , tell worked and as managing editor, edited a give out of anthologies, including Piece of My Heart (), the first North American anthology of literature uninviting lesbians of colour.[2] Sister Vision, which published 50 titles, closed in [2]Piece of My Heart was described in the Canadian Journal of Women champion the Law as "a landmark collection of divers lesbian voices.

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By assimilation reprinted material by such renowned lesbian writers introduce Audre Lorde, Cheryl Clarke, Jewell L. Gomez, Chrystos, and Barbara Smith with work by such inspiring new writers as Raymina Y. Mays, Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Milagros Paredes, and Nice Rodriguez, Silvera builds an enduring testimony to the inextricable connection among literature and social activism for innumerable multi-ethnic keep from multi-racial lesbians."[3]

Works

  • Silenced: Caribbean Domestic Workers Talk With Makeda Silvera (, interviews)
  • Remembering G (, short stories)
  • Piece outandout My Heart: A Lesbian-of-Colour Anthology (, ed.)
  • Her Attitude a Village (, short stories)
  • The Other Woman: Column of Colour in Contemporary Canadian Literature (, ed.)
  • Ma-Ka: Diaspora Juks (, ed.)
  • The Heart Does Not Bend (, novel)

References

  1. ^Silvera, Makeda (), "Man Royals and Sodomites", in Vicinus, Martha (ed.), Lesbian Subjects: A Libber Studies Reader, Indiana University Press, pp.&#;–77, ISBN&#;
  2. ^ abAwe, Emma N.

    "Sister Vision Press"(PDF). 2SLGBTQIA+ Black Feral People of Colour: Voices in History. Canadian Heart for Gender + Sexual Diversity.

  3. ^"Silvera, Makeda –". . Retrieved 5 October