Category: Black Interest

Kleya Forté-Escamilla | Mada | A poetic and eloquent love story that traces the emotion and passion shared between two women: A thoughtful, sensual documentation of love, friendship

Randy P. Conner; David Hatfield Sparks | Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions | What roles do queer and transgender people play in the African diasporic religions? Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and

Jewelle Gomez | The Gilda Stories | Jewelle Gomez sees right into the heart. This is a book to give to those you want most to find their own strength.’–Dorothy Allison ‘Gomez’s women ar

Audre Lorde | Zami | Zami is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lord

Becky Birtha | Lovers’ Choice | From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Sharon Canning

Lover’s Choice takes the reader on short trips into the lives of eleven different women. T

Horace L. Griffin | Their Own Receive Them Not | Griffin, an Episcopal priest and a teacher of pastoral theology, provides a lively and fascinating examination of homosexuality in the black church.28

Staceyann Chin | The Other Side of Paradise | ‘No one knew Staceyann’s mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother’s house in Lottery, Jamaica, on C

Shay Youngblood | The Big Mama Stories | From Publishers Weekly

These folktale-like stories, told by a young woman about her ‘mamas’–the several women who raised her following the death

Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde | Black Bull, Ancestors And Me | Describing the dichotomy of being both revered and reviled, this memoir traces the story of a sangoma–a traditional healer–who is also a lesbian. De

Becky Birtha | Lover’s Choice | From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Sharon Canning

Lover’s Choice takes the reader on short trips into the lives of eleven different women. T