| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 363 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
"A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thought by Black Lesbian writers, in the tradition of The New Press's perennial seller Words of Fire"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Awards |
Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Anthology, 2022 |
| Contents |
Foreword: We won't stop the rain / Cheryl Clarke -- Mouths of rain: Be opened / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- Introduction: No hand, no gaze / Briona Simone Jones -- Part I: Uses of the erotic, 1909-2020 -- Ma Rainey -- Cheryl Clarke -- Red Jordan Arobateau -- You! Inez! / Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson -- Can it be? / Alice Walker -- A Mona Lisa / Angelina Weld Grimké -- Love poem / Audre Lorde -- Woman / Audre Lorde -- Uses of the erotic: The erotic as power / Audre Lorde -- Kittatinny / Cheryl Clarke -- B.D. Woman's Blues / Lucille Bogan -- Finer with time / Michelle Parkerson -- Jambula Tree / Monica Arac de Nyeko -- Metamorphosis / Pat Parker -- My lover is a woman / Pat Parker -- Sunshine / Pat Parker -- Celebrant / Terri Jewell -- Part II: Interlocking oppressions and identity politics, 1980-2020 -- Audre Lorde -- Barbara Smith -- Three for the price of one: notes from a gay, Black feminist / Anita Cornwell -- A meeting of the sapphic daughters / Ann Allen Shockley -- To be an orphan inside of "blackness" / Dawn Lundy Martin -- Ain't I a woman? / Kai Davis -- Not feminine as in straight, but Femme as in queer #AF: The queer & black roots of my femme expression / experience / Kaila Story -- Wolfpack / Mecca Jamilah Sullivan -- We are here / Pamela Sneed -- Part III: Coming out and stepping into, 1978-2020 -- Catherine E. McKinley and L. Joyce Delaney -- Lisa C. Moore -- The wedding / Beverly Smith -- poem from No Language Is Neutral / Dionne Brand -- Angelina Weld Grimké: (1880-1958) / Akasha Gloria Hull-- aubade, in pieces, for my ex-lovers / JP Howard -- Black Butch Woman / Janae Johnson -- Curtain 1983 / Jewelle Gomez -- Notes on speechlessness / Michelle Cliff -- Living single / Moya Bailey -- funny / Pat Parker -- Part IV: The sacred, 1970-2020 -- M. Jacqui Alexander -- Omotara James -- Interspecies / Alexis De Veaux -- her relationship to Africa lives in the part of her that is eight years / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- Black Pearl: A poetic drama for four voices / Arisa White -- How to make art / Cheryl Boyce-Taylor -- Erzulie-Oshun (Georgia style) / doris diosa davenport -- Without name / Pauli Murray -- Fighting racism: An approach through ritual / SDiane Bogus -- Anew / Sangodare Akinwale -- excerpt from love conjure / blues / Sharon Bridgforth -- Part V: Radical futurities, 1976-2020 -- Barbara Jordan -- Demita Frazier -- Charlene A. Carruthers -- The Shape of my impact / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- I am your sister: Black women organizing across sexualities / Audre Lorde -- Towards a Black feminist criticism / Barbara Smith -- A ratchet lens: Black queer youth, agency, hip hop, and the Black ratchet imagination / Bettina Love -- Deviance as resistance: A new research agenda for the study of Black politics / Cathy J. Cohen -- Never mind the misery / Where's the magic / doris diosa davenport -- At another crossroads / Kate Rushin -- The myth and tradition of the Black bulldagger / SDiane Bogus -- Play aunties and dyke bitches: gender, generation, and the ethics of Black queer kinship / Savannah Shange -- Archiving Black lesbians in practice: The Salsa Soul Sisters Archival Collection / Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz -- More than human: Black feminisms of the future in Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories / Susana Morris. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost All EBSCO eBooks |
| Subject |
African American lesbians -- Literary collections.
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African American lesbians -- Social conditions.
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American literature -- African American authors.
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American literature -- Women authors.
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Lesbians' writings, American.
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American literature -- 20th century.
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American literature -- 21st century.
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African American lesbians. |
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African American lesbians -- Social conditions. |
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American literature. |
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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American literature -- Women authors. |
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Lesbians' writings, American. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Literature.
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Literary collections.
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Jones, Briona Simone, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mouths of rain. New York : The New Press, [2021] 9781620975763 (DLC) 2020041055 (OCoLC)1142887203 |
| ISBN |
9781620976258 (electronic book) |
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1620976250 (electronic book) |
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9781620975763 (paperback) |
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1620975769 (paperback) |
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