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COPYRIGHT 2001 Curve Magazine, Outspoken Enterprises, San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 863-6538
WITH THE HELP OF A FEW GOOD WOMEN, BRIGETTE M. MOORE WORKS LIKE AN ARSONIST, SETTING OFF SPARKS AND BLOWING ON THE FLAMES OF FEMINIST REVOLUTION IN THE HEART OF BROOKLYN.
Brigette M. Moore, founder and president of Black Grrrl Revolution (www.blackgrrrlrevolution.org), is snubbing the high road of traditional feminist theory and taking hold of the tools she hopes will help young girls and women build their own liberation -- and she's taking it to where they live. Her multifaceted, nonprofit organization is housed in her home in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn -- best-known to those outside the city from Spike Lee Joints and negative media portrayals.
Moore has received a lot of raised eyebrows from the feminist establishment in her journey to take an unabashedly lesbian-feminist women's revolution to inner-city girls and women. She's no stranger to controversy, but instead of shifting focus to take on detractors, she lets the work speak for itself.
"I named BGR in March 1998 and began to play around with the ideas," says Moore, who has been active in various black, multicultural and women's arts networks in and around New York City for the past 10 years. "At the time, folks thought it was too radical, saying, 'Oh my god, you're really over the top this time!"' But she remained persistent, putting out tables on the main streets and boulevards of the neighborhood and working with other BGR members to do direct outreach...
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