Pat Parker | Woman Slaughter | Parker’s elder sister was murdered by her husband, and the autobiographical poem, Womanslaughter (1978) is based on this event.
Shawn Stewart Ruff | Go the Way Your Blood Beats | James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Louis Edwards, Jacqueline Woodson and twenty-eight other black authors from the Harlem Renaissance to the present examine
Dionne Brand | In Another Place, Not Here | Beautiful and meticulously wrought, set in both Toronto and the Caribbean, this astonishing novel gives voice to the power of love and belonging in a
Laurinda D. Brown | Fire & Brimstone | Chris Desmereaux has her own special relationship with God, and it doesn”t include raising hell six days a week and repenting on Sundays. Her lover,
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
Sidibe Ibrahima; Sidi | The Lesbian’s Wife | Aisha Kone receives the surprise of her life for her twenty-first birthday when she learns that her dad has purchased her an all expense trip to Afric
