Michelle Cliff | Claiming An Identity They Taught Me To Despise | “To cope with hurt and control my fears, I grew a thick skin. Oh, the many names of power – pride, arrogance, control. I am not the frozen snow queen
Hope Larson; Brittney L. Williams; Noah Hayes; Nneka Myers | Goldie Vance | Goldie joins the pit crew of the Prescription 1 race to investigate whether the racers, including Sugar, are being sabotaged.
Mary Jackson King | The Vine Of Glory | A repressed, inhibited, small-town girl, Lavinia, at the mercy of elderly tyrannical relatives, forms a close friendship with an African American man
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