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Spirituality and lived experiences: Through one another’s eyes

A black-and-white photograph of Alice Walker kneeling behind a camera and looking straight ahead.

Black feminists and feminists of color have argued that our society and world are viewed through a “white male gaze.” By decentering this gaze and looking “through each other’s eyes,” feminists have sought to see the world in a new light.

Seeing Myself through Alice Walker’s Eyes
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Jean Weisinger
OAK, 1991

Seeing Myself through Alice Walker’s Eyes — Self-Portrait, by Jean Weisinger, 1991, Oversize Box 3:4, SDiane Bogus papers, BANC MSS 2018/280, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.