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.
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New York :
New Press,
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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.