Every year I celebrate Toni Cade Bambara's birthday as a high holy Black Feminist holiday.  This year preparing this immersion meant reading and rereading my favorite Bambara short story "Madame Bai and the Taking of Stone Mountain" where a Korean elder "warrior-healer" comes to Atlanta in the midst of the 1979 wave of abductions and murders of Black children to train a cadre of people of color to fight against white supremacy.  And while the increased attacks against Asian and Asian American people throughout the pandemic has made Toni Cade Bambara's lifelong vision of Afro-Asian unity as relevant as ever, I sat reading  and rereading through my shock that the inverse happened in real-time.  An armed white racist  decided to hunt and murder Asian women, four of whom were Korean elders in Atlanta this month.  Bambara's story is about how eldership and rigor can help traumatized revolutionaries find their way to action.   

So in honor of Toni Cade Bambara's legacy of solidarity this immersion is available for free to our Asian and Asian American kindred.  Asian and Asian American fam, please email mobilehomecoming@gmail.com for the code to register for free.   Everyone else, thank you so much for contributing to this Black Feminist online community school. All proceeds are going towards building a physical living library and retreat center to honor our legacy. Allies can donate to support free participation for Asian and Asian American fam at this link.

Focusing on, but not limited to Toni Cade Bambara's Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions this immersion honors her call and response story-telling technology, musings and tributes by some of her beloved collaborators and students, the sistering practice she cultivated with Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Nikky Finney and many other writers and more, this immersion uses Bambara's work interviews her legacy bearers, my writing inspired by her and your own guided reflective writing, to support your journey to activate the love in your life towards a just and loving world.

Most importantly, Toni Cade Bambara taught her loved ones (including my sister-mentor Aishah Shahidah Simmons) that "Sister is a verb."  This guided, reflective immersion in the life and work of Black feminist cultural worker Toni Cade Bambara is about turning love into action and recognizing love as possible action. 

The course will go live early in the morning on Toni Cade Bambara's birthday (March 25th).  

This is a course that you can engage on your own time and at your own pace.  It will be available for at least six months after Toni Cade Bambara's birthday.