Mouths of rain : an anthology of Black lesbian thought /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jones, Briona Simone (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New Press, [2021].
Subjects:
Table of 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 GrimkeÌ?
  • 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 GrimkeÌ?: (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.