{"id":30524,"date":"2020-06-28T10:30:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T10:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/issue-is-ism-by-nila-gupta\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T15:00:14","slug":"issue-is-ism-by-nila-gupta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/issue-is-ism-by-nila-gupta\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue is &#8216;Ism by Nila Gupta"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Issue is &#8216;Ism<\/em><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><\/em><\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Nila Gupta<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This book first appeared in the 1983 Issue 16 of Fireweed, a Canadian feminist quarterly. In these pages women of colour speak about their lives for the first time in Canadian Feminist literature. They touch on racism, sexism, classism, imperialism and other &#8216;isms. Contributors include Himani Bannerji, Claire Harris, Nila Gupta, Sylvia Hamilton, Prabha Khosla, Cecilia Green, Claire Preito and many others.<\/p>\n<p>This powerful collection includes essays, short stories, poems, photographs, illustrations and graphics by Black women, Asian women and Native women. Sisters from the Philippines and Central America also speak out. 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