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
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,
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
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
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
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
Marcia Freedman | Exile in the Promised Land: a Memoir | Lively first-person account of fourteen years in Israel by former Knesset member, feminist movement founder, early peace activist.
Makhosazana Xaba; Crystal Biruk | Proudly Malawian | This groundbreaking collection brings together the life stories of eleven lesbian, bisexual ad gender nonconforming Malawians. Told in the contributo
Evelyn C. White | Alice Walker | The first full-length biography of the author of The Color Purple–an American icon praised and pilloried for her art and activism. Born to a share
