Award Winner
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,
Forward by Lisa Maas
Lisa Maas | Forward | ‘A moving and intimate LGBTQ graphic novel about two women, both of whom are trying to put the pieces of their lives back together. Still smarting yea
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it’s the culmination of years of yearning to be reunited with Cicely, her oldest friend and secret love, who left home years before for the ‘land of opportunity’.
Patsy’s plans do not include her young daughter, Tru, whom she leaves behind in a bittersweet trail of sadness and relief.
But Brooklyn is not at all what Cicely described in her letters, and to survive as an undocumented immigrant, Patsy is forced to work as a bathroom attendant, and ironically, as a nanny.
Meanwhile, back in Jamaica, Tru struggles with her own questions of identity and sexuality, grappling every day with what it means to be abandoned by a mother who has no intention of returning.
We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib
Samra Habib | We Have Always Been Here | ‘A queer Muslim searches for the language to express her truest self, making peace with her sexuality, her family, and Islam. Growing up in Pakistan,