Bibliograph

Mouths of rain, an anthology of Black lesbian thought, edited by Briona Simone Jones

Type

Label

Mouths of rain, an anthology of Black lesbian thought, edited by Briona Simone Jones

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mouths of rain

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1142887203

Responsibility statement

edited by Briona Simone Jones

Sub title

an anthology of Black lesbian thought

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

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 Grimke -- 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 and 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 Grimke: (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 -- Sangodare Akinwale / Anew -- 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 Gums -- I am your sister: Black women organizing across sexualities / Audre Lorde -- Towards a Black feminist criticism -- A ratchet lens: Black queer youth, agency, hip hop, and the Black ratchet imagination -- 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 -- 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

Target audience

adult

Classification