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"Cheryl Clarke's Living as a Lesbian is a groundbreaking paean to lesbian life. Filled with sounds from her childhood in Washington, DC, the riffs of jazz musicians, and bluesy incantations, Living as a Lesbian sings like a marimba, whispering "i am, i am in love with you." Evoking her years of literary and political activism with anger, passion, and determination, Clarke mourns the death of Kimako Baraka ("sister of famous artist brother"), celebrates the life of Indira Gandhi, and chronicles all kinds of disasters--natural and human-made. The world is large in Living as a Lesbian but also personal and intimate. These poems are closely observed and finely wrought, with Clarke's characteristic charm and wit shining throughout. In 1986, Living as a Lesbian captured the vitality and volatility of the lesbian world; today, in a world both changed and unchanged, Clarke's poems continue to illuminate our lives and make new meanings for Living as a Lesbian." -- Publisher's description.

African American lesbians --- Lesbians

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"This volume launches the first sustained discussion of the need for a queer of color conceptual framework around Black, lesbian female identity. Specifically, this volume addresses the necessity for a more integrated framework within queer studies, in which the variables of race/ethnicity are taken into consideration. This book is unique in that it highlights a triple-jeopardy minority group that has been historically marginalized and concludes with the proposal of a much-needed framework for researchers to begin to create a baseline of knowledge/research under the umbrella of the Black Queer Identity Matrix." --

African American lesbians --- Race awareness. --- Queer theory. --- Identity.

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Audre Lorde (1934-1992), the author of eleven books of poetry, described herself as a ""Black feminist lesbian poet warrior mother,"" but she added that this phrase was inadequate in capturing her full identity. The interviews in this collection portray the many additional sides of the Harlem-born author and activist. She was also a rebellious child of Caribbean parents, a mastectomy patient, a blue-collar worker, a college professor, a student of African mythology, an experimental autobiographer in her book titled Zami, a critic of imperialism, and a charismatic orator.Despite her intense engagement with the major social movements of her time, Lorde told interviewers that she was always an outsider, a position of weakness and of strength.Most of her schoolmates were white. She married a white legal-aid attorney, and after their divorce she was the partner of a white psychologist for many years. These intimate alliances with whites caused some African Americans of both genders to question the depth of her solidarity. Lorde expressed distrust of some white feminists and charged that they lacked real understanding of African American struggles.Writing proved to be her powerful weapon against injustice. Painfully aware that differences could provoke prejudice and violence, she promoted the bridging of barriers. These interviews reveal the sense of displacement that made Lorde a champion of the outcast and the forgotten--whether in New York, Mississippi, Berlin, or Soweto.

Poets, American --- Feminists --- Lesbians --- African American lesbians --- African American poets --- African American women --- Lord, Audre

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Poets, American --- Breast --- African American lesbians --- Feminists --- African American poets --- African American women. --- Lesbianism. --- Feminism. --- Poetry. --- Cancer --- Patients --- Social conditions. --- Poets, American - 20th century - Biography. --- Breast - Cancer - Patients - United States - Biography. --- African American lesbians - Social conditions. --- Poets, American - 20th century - Diaries. --- Feminists - United States - Biography. --- African American poets - Biography.

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Mignon R. Moore brings to light the family life of a group that has been largely invisible-gay women of color-in a book that challenges long-standing ideas about racial identity, family formation, and motherhood. Drawing from interviews and surveys of one hundred black gay women in New York City, Invisible Families explores the ways that race and class have influenced how these women understand their sexual orientation, find partners, and form families. In particular, the study looks at the ways in which the past experiences of women who came of age in the 1960's and 1970's shape their thinking, and have structured their lives in communities that are not always accepting of their openly gay status. Overturning generalizations about lesbian families derived largely from research focused on white, middle-class feminists, Invisible Families reveals experiences within black American and Caribbean communities as it asks how people with multiple stigmatized identities imagine and construct an individual and collective sense of self.

African American lesbians -- Identity. --- Gay rights -- United States. --- Puerto Rican lesbians -- Identity. --- Same-sex marriage -- United States. --- African American lesbians --- Same-sex marriage --- Gay rights --- Puerto Rican lesbians --- Lesbians, Puerto Rican --- Lesbians --- Puerto Rican women --- Gay and lesbian rights --- Gay men --- Gays --- Lesbian rights --- Rights of gays --- Rights of lesbians --- Civil rights --- Gay marriage --- Homosexual marriage --- Lesbian marriage --- Same-sex unions --- Marriage --- Civil unions --- Afro-American lesbians --- Lesbians, African American --- Identity --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- African American lesbians. --- Puerto Rican lesbians. --- Identity. --- bildungsroman. --- black american communities. --- caribbean communities. --- coming of age. --- coming out. --- empowering women. --- family studies. --- family. --- feminism novels. --- feminist movement. --- gay studies. --- gay women. --- gender and sexuality. --- gender studies. --- inspiring stories. --- lgbt community. --- lgbt studies. --- lgbtq. --- overcoming adversity. --- overcoming racism. --- race class gender studies. --- racial identity. --- sexual orientation. --- social identity. --- sociology of marriage and family. --- stories about minorities. --- stories of motherhood. --- women of color.