Gaines Malik | Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left | Articulates the role black theatricality played in the radical energy of the sixties
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Makhosazana Xaba | Like the Untouchable Wind | This book is a choir of voices of women who selfidentify as lesbian and bisexual. Using poetry they share their experiences, their feelings and their
Nisi Shawl | Everfair | EVERFAIR is a Neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium’s disastrous colonization of the Con
Kalynn Bayron | Cinderella Is Dead | It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men
Leah Johnson | You Should See Me in a Crown | Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is b
Ann Allen Shockley | The Black and White of It | Short stories about interfacial lesbian relationships.
Justina Ireland | Dread Nation | ‘Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania–derailing the War Between the States and c
Chinelo Okparanta | Happiness, Like Water | It is the opposition of expectations, more than opposition of cultures, which affects the characters in Happiness, Like Water, a debut collection of
Dionne Brand | Bread Out of Stone | Brand turns her clear, unflinching eye to issues of sex and sexism: male violence toward women; how Black women learn the erotic; the vulnerability of
Barbara Burford | The Threshing Floor | In the pioneering work, Towards a Black Feminist Criticism, Barbara Smith examines the realities of criticizing works that are both Black feminist and