Category: Autobiography/Biography

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Sappho Was a Right-On Woman by Sidney Abbott; Barbara Love

Sidney Abbott; Barbara Love | Sappho Was a Right-On Woman | A radical change in a little-understood part of society has made this book possible. It is a change that is forcing people to reevaluate their attitud

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Chronology by Zahra Patterson

Zahra Patterson | Chronology | Taking as its starting point an ultimately failed attempt to translate a Sesotho short story into English, CHRONOLOGY explores the spaces language occ

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The Life of Lorena Hickok: E. R.’s Friend by Doris Faber

Doris Faber | The Life of Lorena Hickok: E. R.’s Friend | With this bombshell, paradoxically, the unthinkable becomes a matter for thoughtful contemplation. Lorena Hickok was a heavy-set, heavy-voiced AP repo

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Black Interest Parenting & Families

A New Look At Black Families by Charles Vert Willie; Richard Reddick

Charles Vert Willie; Richard Reddick | A New Look At Black Families | A New Look at Black Families provides a provocative and precocious analysis of the diversity of the black family experience in which black families of

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Black Interest LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Black. Queer. Southern. Women. by E. Patrick Johnson

E. Patrick Johnson | Black. Queer. Southern. Women. | Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South,

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Waiting For The Call by Jacqueline Taylor

Jacqueline Taylor | Waiting For The Call | “Well-written, absorbing, and a great pleasure to read . . . will appeal to Christians struggling to square their traditional beliefs with acceptance

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Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around by Alethia Jones; Virginia Eubanks; Barbara Smith

Alethia Jones; Virginia Eubanks; Barbara Smith | Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around | 2015 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, presented by the Publishing Triangle

2015 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir/Biography, pr

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The Wrestling Party by Bett Williams

Bett Williams | The Wrestling Party | ‘When does desire turn into exploitation?’ Bett Williams asks, reflecting on a relationship she had with a seventeen-year-old girl when she was thirty

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You’re Not Edith by Allison Gruber

Allison Gruber | You’re Not Edith | If the autobiographical essays in You’re Not Edith are any indication, Allison Gruber has a surprisingly functional (not to mention intimate) relation

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Eight Bullets by Claudia Brenner; Hannah Ashley

Claudia Brenner; Hannah Ashley | Eight Bullets | From Publishers Weekly

On May 12, 1988, Claudia Brenner and her companion, Rebecca Wight, parked their car on Dead Woman’s Hollow Road before star