Roxane Gay | Hunger | In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her o
LaShonda Katrice Barnett | Jam on the Vine | Recall your first reading of a favorite book: pulse quickening with resonance, your fascination with this new, yet familiar, world fueled by desire to
Lyndon Kamaal Gill | Erotic Islands | In Erotic Islands, Lyndon K. Gill maps a long queer presence at a crossroads of the Caribbean. This transdisciplinary book foregrounds the queer histo
Alexis De Veaux | Yabo | Alexis De Veaux laces together the past and the present with poetic elegance in an intricate and delicate pattern of call and response. …Echoing the
Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene | For Sizakele | Taylor, a queer Nigerian college student, is in a passionate relationship with Lee, a black American basketball-playing pianist. When Taylor develops
Hope Larson; Brittney L. Williams; Sarah Stern | Goldie Vance | Sixteen-year-old Marigold “Goldie” Vance has an insatiable curiosity with dreams of one day becoming a detective. Luckily, she lives at a Florida reso
Ntozake Shange | Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo | Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo is the story of three ‘colored girls,’ three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina: Sassafrass, the ol
Hope Larson; Sarah Stern; Brittney L. Williams | Goldie Vance | Sixteen-year-old Marigold “Goldie” Vance lives at a Florida resort with her dad, who manages the place. Her mom, who divorced her dad years ago, works
Ashia Monet | The Black Veins | In a world where magic thrives in secret city corners, a group of magicians embark on a road trip–and it’s the ‘no-love-interest’, found family adven
