SISTORIES LITMAG is an interactive Black feminist literary journal featuring poetry, short fiction, essay, interview, photography, and visual art from southern Black women and femmes.
Our debut features Black women and femmes from Charlotte exploring what it means to be forged as an extension of Alice Walker’s framework for her personal understanding Black women’s history.
She used the categories, The Suspended Woman, The Assimilated Woman, and the Emergent Woman,” to describe a series of movements from a woman totally victimized by society and by men to a growing, developing woman whose consciousness allows her to have some control over her life.”
The Forged woman is is an experiment in possibility. It poses the question what comes after the emergence? And who/what is forged?
