1 Cimi
White Magnetic World-Bridger
Moon-Song pulls us
Through life/death/life
Surrounding us with Soul
Soul is paramount
Paradox and tantamount
To our blessed Destiny
Purpose lends meaning
To Life in this Machine Age –
A false Time of mistaken ratios
Art alone unites –
Anoints –
Appoints the Angels
In our midst.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Margaret Sloan-Hunter
Margaret Sloan-Hunter (May 31, 1947 – September 23, 2004) was a Black feminist, lesbian, civil rights advocate, and one of the early editors of Ms. magazine.
Early life
Margaret Sloan-Hunter was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on May 31, 1947. She grew up in Chicago.
Career
At the age of 14, Sloan-Hunter joined the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a group that worked on poverty and urban issues on behalf of the African-American community in Chicago. When she turned 17, she founded the Junior Catholic Inter-Racial Council, a mix of suburban and inner-city students who talked about and worked on racial problems. In 1966, Sloan-Hunter worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and in the "Open Housing Marches".
Margaret Sloan-Hunter paired up with Jane Galvin-Lewis, another former writer of Ms. Magazine, to challenge racism and sexism as interlocking oppressions. In order to become further involved, Sloan-Hunter and Galvin-Lewis paired up with Florynce Kennedy in 1973 to speak on college campuses around the Country. Their events became places for other black feminists to find each other and create support groups. This led Sloan-Hunter, Kennedy, and Galvin-Lewis to create the NBFO or National Black Feminist Organization in Kennedy's living room. Within the NBFO, many women worked to define the specific oppression black women face.
Sloan-Hunter also became one of the first editors of Ms. Magazine, a magazine supporting the feminist movement. In addition to serving as an editor for the magazine, she traveled to speak on issues of sexism and racism throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe.
Through the National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO), Sloan-Hunter tackled some of the same racial and feminist issues she tackled in her youth. In 1975, she and her daughter Kathleen Sloan moved to Oakland, California, where they established the Women's Foundation. She also helped organize the Berkeley Women’s Center and the Feminist School for Girls. Sloan-Hunter was an intersectionality activist, fighting for African American, feminist, and lesbian causes.
Margaret Sloan-Hunter published a book of poetry called Black & Lavender in 1995. Black & Lavender was a series of thirty-eight poems written about Sloan-Hunter's life.
Education
Margaret Sloan-Hunter won many awards for public speaking in high school. Margaret Sloan-Hunter went on to Chicago City College and Malcolm X College to major in speech. After this, she received a degree in Women’s Studies at Antioch University in San Francisco.
Death
Margaret died in Oakland, California when she was 57 years old. On September 23, 2004, her family confirmed she faced a prolonged illness.
CIMI
Kin 66: White Magnetic World-Bridger
I unify in order to equalize
Attracting opportunity
I seal the store of death
With the magnetic tone of purpose
I am guided by my own power doubled.
Through telepathy, the art of nature expresses itself in geometries of sound and triangulations of light.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2018-2019.
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Svadhistanha Chakra (Kali Plasma)
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