Pat Parker & Judy Grahn - Where Would I Be Without You (The Poetry Of Pat Parker & Judy Grahn) flac album

Where Would I Be Without You? The Poetry of Pat Parker and Judy Grahn, 1976 Sound Recording Olivia Records. Sound Recording, 1977, Olivia Records. Revolution: It's Not Neat or Pretty or Quick" in Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa (eds), This Bridge Called My Back, Watertown, Massachusetts: Persephone Press, 1981. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (1983). I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (1991). Parker, Pat, Jonestown and Other Madness, Firebrand Books, 1985. Booklist, March 15, 1999, p. 1279. Callaloo, Winter 1986, pp. 259–62.

Poem to Ann by Pat Parker and Judy Grahn. was sampled in. Exit Scott (Interlude) by Solange (2019).

With Judy Grahn, she recorded the album Where Would I Be Without You (1976). Parker worked for the Oakland Feminist Women’s Health Center from 1978 to 1987 and was involved in political activism around race, class, and sexuality, taking national leadership positions to help address women’s health issues, particularly regarding domestic and sexual violence. She testified before the United Nations and traveled to Kenya and Ghana with two UN delegations. Parker died of breast cancer in 1989; her long-time partner, Marty Dunham, donated Parker’s archives to the Schlesinger Library at Harvard.

Pat Parker was born in Houston in 1944, the youngest child of her working-class parents, Mary and Ernest Cooks. After graduating high school, Parker moved to California, where she received degrees from Los Angeles City College and San Francisco State College. According to the Poetry Foundation, "Parker worked for the Oakland Feminist Women’s Health Center from 1978 to 1987 and was involved in political activism around race, class, and sexuality, taking national leadership positions to help address women’s health issues, particularly regarding domestic and sexual violence. Parker would go on to testify before the . and be part of delegations to Kenya and Ghana. The Complete Works of Pat Parker' by Pat Parker. She also recorded a spoken-word album with Grahn, titled Where Would I Be Without You.

Pat Parker recording of "For Straight Folks Who Don't Mind Gays But Wish They Weren't So Blatant" from the album "Where Would I Be Without You: The Poetry of Pat Parker and Judy Grahn. Lorde image from The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs in NYPL's Digital Collection.

An anecdotal and autobiographical poet, Parker’s poems are the story of her life, a life which ended much too early when she died of breast cancer in 1989. Parker later recorded an album with Grahn entitled Where Would I Be Without You: The Poetry of Pat Parker and Judy Grahn, which was released in 1976. The year of 1978 marked the beginning of an active period for Parker. She was appointed director of the Feminist Women’s Health Center in Oakland and published her third volume of new poetry, Womanslaughter She also published an anthology of her works entitled Movement in Black: The Collected Poetry of Pat Parker 1961-1978.

PAT PARKER/JUDY GRAHN the poetry/Where Would I Be Without You LP/INSERT lesbian Condition: Used. Time left: 20d 7h 56m 20s. Ships to: Worldwide. This may not be a complete discography for Judy Parker. This listing only shows those albums by this artist that appear in at least one chart on this site.

Judy Grahn, a fellow poet and a personal friend, identifies Pat Parker's poetry as a part of the "continuing Black tradition of radical poetry". Cheryl Clarke, another poet and peer, identifies her as a "lead voice and caller" in the world of lesbian poetry. Designed to confront both black and women's communities with, as Clarke notes, "the precariousness of being non-white, non-male, non-heterosexual in a racist, misogynist, homophobic, imperial culture  . Where Would I Be Without You? The Poetry of Pat Parker and Judy Grahn, 1976 Sound Recording Olivia Records.