Awards

• Winner of Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Memoir/Biography) 2015
• Winner of Triangle Awards (Lesbian Nonfiction) 2015

Overview

Reveals a remarkable woman's life and her contributions to social justice movements related to Civil Rights, feminism, lesbian and gay liberation, anti-racism, and Black feminism.

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...a wonderful read on solidarity, resistance, and outsider politics. - The Advocate ...Barbara Smith is everything. So is this book ... [it] challenges us all to dig deeper in our work and never stop pursuing actual, authentic liberation. - Autostraddle In a clear, accessible, and conversational style, the book engages readers in fundamental questions that those committed to social justice must grapple with in order to deepen their work and heighten their integrity, accountability, and courage. - EDGE Boston As a black lesbian feminist, activist, scholar, and elected official, Barbara Smith has been speaking truth to power for four decades. This extensive collection of writings and interviews portrays one indomitable woman and many invaluable movements. - Chronogram Barbara Smith has played a groundbreaking role in opening and expanding our national cultural and political dialogues about the intersections of race, class, sexuality, and gender. Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around ... brings to life the controversies, players and strategies that expanded the definitions of freedom and liberation over four decades. - Seattle Lesbian ...a massive and important work ... This will be an important book for students of the Civil Rights movement, but also for those who want to know what it takes to build movements, and movements that last. - San Francisco Book Review Barbara Smith is a creator of modern feminism as a writer, organizer, editor, publisher, and scholar. Now she has added to her decades as an activist outside the system by becoming an elected official who truly listens, represents, and creates bridges to a common good. She has shown us that democracy is a seed that can only be planted where we are. - Gloria Steinem Barbara Smith is one of the grand pioneering and prophetic voices of our time. Her truth still hurts and heals! - Cornel West Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around is not a memoir, a biography, nor a reader. It is a reflection and a conversation. It is also a montage of forty years of documents, interviews, and articles that provide useful lessons for social justice work. This book is a tour de force that documents the life's work of Barbara Smith and the freedom struggles she shaped. - Duchess Harris, author of Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Obama

Barbara Smith is a creator of modern feminism as a writer, organizer, editor, publisher, and scholar. Now she has added to her decades as an activist outside the system by becoming an elected official who truly listens, represents, and creates bridges to a common good. She has shown us that democracy is a seed that can only be planted where we are. - Gloria Steinem Barbara Smith is one of the grand pioneering and prophetic voices of our time. Her truth still hurts and heals! - Cornel West Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around is not a memoir, a biography, nor a reader. It is a reflection and a conversation. It is also a montage of forty years of documents, interviews, and articles that provide useful lessons for social justice work. This book is a tour de force that documents the life's work of Barbara Smith and the freedom struggles she shaped. - Duchess Harris, author of Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Obama

Barbara Smith is a creator of modern feminism as a writer, organizer, editor, publisher, and scholar. Now she has added to her decades as an activist outside the system by becoming an elected official who truly listens, represents, and creates bridges to a common good. She has shown us that democracy is a seed that can only be planted where we are. - Gloria Steinem Barbara Smith is one of the grand pioneering and prophetic voices of our time. Her truth still hurts and heals! - Cornel West

Author Information

Alethia Jones is Director of Education and Leadership Development at 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East. Virginia Eubanks is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York and author of Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age. Barbara Smith is Public Service Professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She served two terms as a member of the City of Albany's Common Council, and is the author of The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom.

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