Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | Dirty River | A few years ago, I saw Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha read at Culture Fuck, and Oakland-based POC/Mixed reading that happens on a monthly basis. She
Tracey Richardson | The Candidate | Presidential candidate Jane Kincaid–gorgeous, dynamic and extremely driven–is taking the country by storm, passionately outlining her blueprint for
Nalo Hopkinson | Falling in Love with Hominids | ‘In this long-awaited collection, Hopkinson continues to expand the boundaries of culture and imagination. Whether she is retelling The Tempest as a n
M-E Girard | Girl Mans Up | Lambda Literary Award Winner * Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2016 * Children’s Book Council Books Best Book of 2016 * Kirkus Reviews Best Teen
Jane Rule | Contract With The World | Six characters use Art to try and make sense of their lives and establish a relationship with the outside world. For some there is success, for other
Jane Rule | Lesbian Images | The author’s attitude toward lesbian experience as measured against images by other women writers, such as Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, and May Sarto
Dionne Brand | Bread Out of Stone | Brand turns her clear, unflinching eye to issues of sex and sexism: male violence toward women; how Black women learn the erotic; the vulnerability of
Jane Rule | Against The Season | When Amelia Larson takes her dead sister’s diaries from a dusty disused ballroom and reads them, ignoring her dying sister’s wish that they be burnt,
Sina Queyras | My Ariel | Where were you when you first read Ariel? Who were you? What has changed in your life? In the lives of women? In My Ariel, Sina Queyras barges into on
