This Bridge Called My Back Cover

This Bridge Called My Back – Book Review

Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to women of colour feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The collection explores, as co-editor Cherríe Moraga writes, “the complex confluence of identities—race, class, gender, and sexuality—systemic to women of colour oppression and liberation.”
Mara Brock Akil

Mara Brock Akil

Representation matters," said screenwriter and producer Mara Brock Akil upon signing a contract with Netflix in 2020. The deal gives Brock Akil a whole new platform to showcase marginalised characters – something she's become renowned for since entering the television industry in the 1990s.