Mouths of rain : an anthology of Black lesbian thought / edited by Briona Simone Jones.
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- ISBN: 1620975769 : PAP
- ISBN: 9781620975763 : PAP
- ISBN: 9781620975763
- ISBN: 1620975769
- Physical Description: xxx, 363 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: New York : The New Press, [2021]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 -- Uses of erotic, 1909-2019 -- Interlocking oppressions and identity politics, 1980-2020 -- Coming out and stepping into, 1978-2019 -- The sacred, 1970-2019 -- Radical futurities, 1976-2019. |
Summary, etc.: | "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. |
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Table of Contents
Mouths of Rain : An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Foreword: We Won't Stop the Rain Cheryl Clarke | p. xv | |
Mouths of Rain: Be Opened Alexis Pauline Gumbs | p. xix | |
Introduction: No Hand, No Gaze Briona Simone Jones | p. xxv | |
Part I | Uses of the Erotic, 1909-2020 | p. 1 |
Ma Rainey | ||
Cheryl Clarke | ||
Red Jordan Arobateau | ||
Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson | ||
You! Inez! | p. 3 | |
Alice Walker | ||
Can It Be? | p. 4 | |
Angelina Weld Grimké | ||
A Mona Lisa | p. 8 | |
Audre Lorde | ||
Love Poem | p. 9 | |
Woman | p. 10 | |
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power | p. 11 | |
Cheryl Clarke | ||
Kittatinny | p. 18 | |
Lucille Bogan | ||
B.D. Woman's Blues | p. 19 | |
Michelle Parkerson | ||
Finer with Time | p. 20 | |
Monica Arac de Nyeko | ||
Jambula Tree | p. 22 | |
Pat Parker | ||
Metamorphosis | p. 35 | |
My Lover Is a Woman | p. 36 | |
Sunshine | p. 39 | |
Terri Jewell | ||
Celebrant | p. 40 | |
Part II | Interlocking Oppressions and Identity Politics, 1980-2020 | p. 45 |
Audre Lorde | ||
Barbara Smith | ||
Anita Cornwell | ||
Three for the Price of One: Notes from a Gay, Black Feminist | p. 47 | |
Ann Allen Shockley | ||
A Meeting of the Sapphic Daughters | p. 57 | |
Dawn Lundy Martin | ||
To be an orphan inside of "blackness" | p. 66 | |
Kai Davis | ||
Ain't I a Woman? | p. 67 | |
Kail a Story | ||
Not Feminine as in Straight, but Femme as in Queer #AF: The Queer & Black Roots of My Femme Expression/Experience | p. 69 | |
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan | ||
Wolfpack | p. 76 | |
Pamela Sneed | ||
We Are Here | p. 91 | |
Part III | Coming Out and Stepping Into, 1978-2020 | p. 95 |
Catherine E. McKinley and L. Joyce Delaney | ||
Lisa C. Moore | ||
Beverly Smith | ||
The Wedding | p. 97 | |
Dionne Brand | ||
Poem from No Language Is Neutral | p. 103 | |
Akasha Gloria Hull | ||
Angelina Weld Grimke: (1880-1958) | p. 104 | |
JP Howard | ||
Aubade, in pieces, for my ex-lovers | p. 115 | |
Janae Johnson | ||
Black Butch Woman | p. 116 | |
Jewelle Gomez | ||
Curtain 1983 | p. 118 | |
Michelle Cliff | ||
Notes on Speechlessness | p. 121 | |
Moya Bailey | ||
Living Single | p. 127 | |
Pat Parker | ||
Funny | p. 130 | |
Part IV | The Sacred, 1970-2020 | p. 135 |
M. Jacqui Alexander | ||
Omotara James | ||
Alexis De Veaux | ||
Interspecies | p. 137 | |
Alexis Pauline Gumbs | ||
Her relationship to Africa lives in the part of her that is eight years | p. 148 | |
Arisa White | ||
Black Pearl: A poetic drama for four voices | p. 150 | |
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor | ||
How to Make Art | p. 167 | |
Doris diosa davenport | ||
Erzulie-Oshun (Georgia Style) | p. 168 | |
Pauli Murray | ||
Without Name | p. 170 | |
SDiane Bogus | ||
Fighting Racism: An Approach Through Ritual | p. 171 | |
Sangodare Akinwale | ||
Anew | p. 179 | |
Sharon Bridgforth | ||
Excerpt from love conjure/blues | p. 188 | |
Part V | Radical Futurities, 1976-2020 | p. 191 |
Barbara Jordan | ||
Demita Frazier | ||
Charlene A. Carruthers | ||
Alexis Pauline Gumbs | ||
The Shape of My Impact | p. 193 | |
Audre Lorde | ||
I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities | p. 198 | |
Barbara Smith | ||
Toward a Black Feminist Criticism | p. 204 | |
Bettina Love | ||
A Ratchet Lens: Black Queer Youth, Agency, Hip Hop, and the Black Ratchet Imagination | p. 226 | |
Cathy J. Cohen | ||
Deviance as Resistance: A New Research Agenda for the Study of Black Politics | p. 249 | |
Doris diosa davenport | ||
Never Mind the Misery/Where's the Magic? | p. 280 | |
Kate Rushin | ||
At Another Crossroads | p. 286 | |
SDiane Bogus | ||
The Myth and Tradition of the Black Bulldagger | p. 287 | |
Savannah Shange | ||
Play Aunties and Dyke Bitches: Gender, Generation, and the Ethics of Black Queer Kinship | p. 294 | |
Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz | ||
Archiving Black Lesbians in Practice: The Salsa Soul Sisters Archival Collection | p. 314 | |
Susana Morris | ||
More Than Human: Black Feminism, of the Future in Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories | p. 318 | |
Acknowledgments | p. 335 | |
Biographies | p. 337 | |
Selections | p. 361 |