Gathering Ground

New Writing And Art By Northwest Women of Color

Plot

Artist's statement ; Weaver's mask ; Rainbow / wings of a different color / Edna Jackson --
Artist's statement ; Eat the moon / Barbara Thomas --
We cannot wait to be discovered --
Introduction : "We cannot wait to be discovered" / Jo Cochran --
Hsi Shih : daughter of silence / Bee Bee Tan --
Riding song of one ; This is not simple / Jo Cochran --
Listening in : a conversation with the editors of Gathering ground / Jo Cochran, J. T. Stewart, and Mayumi Tsutakawa --
Queen of angels ; Letter / Kathleen M. Reyes --
Mirrors / Nancy Lee Kennel --
Partings ; Flower arranging / Sharon Hashimoto --
Adolescence ; Pubescence at 39 ; Grandmother / Vickie Sears --
These women only look crazy ; Roots ; Wedlock / Charlotte Watson Sherman --
Black lesbian journal --
a passing scene / Essme Thompson --
Homecoming ; Sunday morning, Banilad / Myrna Peña-Reyes --
In Grandma's bedroom / Lisa Furamoto --
Artist's statement ; Claire's breakdance ; Ondo I ; Nude / Amy Nikaitani --
I am going to talk with them about their daughters --
Introduction : "I am going to talk to them about their daughters" / Mayumi Tsutakawa --
One woman waits for spring blooms ; One woman talks about her children ; Patchouli, the scent moths ; Blue dreams / Bee Bee Tan --
Frances E. W. Harper : black feminist pioneer / Evelyn C. White --
The Image of the Chicana in teatro / Yvonne Yarvro-Bejarano --
The Yellow dress / Kathleen Shaye Hill --
Something ain't right / Julia Boyd --
Perma red / Debra C. Earling --
Pinays --
Filipinas in America / Dorothy Laigo Cordova --
Artist's statement ; Las Quatas ; El Eterno sueño del danzón de la unidad ; Mujer / Cecilia Concepcion Alvarez --
In order to survive --
Introduction : "In order to survive" / J. T. Stewart --
In order to survive / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano --
The White horse cafe / J. T. Stewart --
For Paula ; Reading Shadow country by Paula Gunn Allen / Jo Cochran --
Who will braid my hair today? / Doris Harris --
Sticktalk / Vickie Sears --
Mien and Hmong women's textile work / Sue Chin and Mayumi Tsutakawa --
Dreamdream daybreak ; Saga with Mary Queen of the Earth / Carletta Wilson --
Chest of kimonos --
a female family history / Mayumi Tsutakawa --
"Reports of her life have not been adequately exaggerated": an interview with Colleen J. McElroy / J. T. Stewart --
Caution : this woman breaks for memories ; A Question of vital statistics ; What goes around comes around and goes ; At 102, romance comes once a year ; Upon viewing a photograph in which I stand in shadow behind my grandmother / Colleen J. McElroy.