Category: Black Interest

Cheryl Clarke | Living As A Lesbian | LIVING AS A LESBIAN is Cheryl Clarke’s paean to lesbian life. Filled with sounds from her childhood in Washington, DC, the riffs of jazz musicians, an

Matt Richardson | The Queer Limit Of Black Memory | The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution identifies a new archive of Black women’s literature that has heretofore be

Samiya Bashir | Where the Apple Falls | Where the Apple Falls resides at the intersections between woman & female–both human and environmental–and the concepts to which she is often linked

Nikki Baker | In the Game | Ginny and Bev.

Always there for each other-friends since business school, where their black faces were lost in a sea of white. As Ginny obser

Sharon Bridgforth | The Bull-Jean Stories | A collection of short stories about the life and loves of a Black bulldagger set in the 1920s. ‘the bull-jean stories are a passionate tribute to a fi

Penny Mickelbury | Paradise Interrupted |

Before Carole Ann Gibson even has a chance to enjoy the white sand beaches of Isle de Paix, she senses there’s something sinister lurking in this

Chinelo Okparanta | Under The Udala Trees | Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is 11 when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to s

Makeda Silvera | Piece of My Heart | Uncompromising in its honesty, at times humorous, angry, confrontational, and erotic, Piece of My Heart celebrates the lives of women both out and com

Becky Birtha | Forbidden Poems | From Publishers Weekly

The poems in this first collection show off Birtha’s considerable ability to endow ordinary perceptions and occurrences wit

Emmanuel Sampath Nelson | Critical Essays | Challenges the marginalization of gay men and lesbians of color in the dominant academic discourses by focusing scholarly attention on the imaginative