"How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (2003): BOSS members read Zora Neale Hurston's essay

Members of the Barnard Organization of Soul Sisters (BOSS) read Hurston's essay "How It Feels to Be Colored Me." Featuring Bendita Malakia and Alex Wright, the performance also includes Marlysha Myrthil, Sheena Gordon, Alexis Gumbs and Nikole Williams.
Recorded October 2, 2003 at "Jumpin' at the Sun: Reassessing the Life and Work of Zora Neale Hurston," the Virginia C. Gildersleeve Conference at Barnard College, NYC.
This video was included in issue 3.2 of The Scholar & Feminist Online. For more information, please see sfonline.barnard.edu/hurston

[@SourDoughBill]

Having first read it some fifty years ago in high school, and at times since, it's really nice to hear it read to me. Thank you.

[@EdwardGarrenMFT]

I LOVE this essay. I am a Gay man, from about 50 miles from Eatonville. My own experience of the world echos many of Zora's stories, and we Floridians (pre-airconditioning natives) have a gift for language few can comprehend. Zora was before her time, deeply understood the importance of being as God created us, shameless in proclaiming the majestic diversity of humanity and creation. She is my sister, and I am blessed to know her. "Queen Zora" brings life to our "differences." Love her !!

[@omarcruz5918]

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