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		Lesbians, Black -- United States -- Literary collections.
		Lesbians, Black -- Literary collections.
		Lesbians, Black -- United States -- Social conditions.
		Lesbians, Black -- Social conditions.
		American literature -- Black authors.
		American literature -- Women authors.
		Lesbians' writings, American.
		American literature -- 20th century.
		American literature -- 21st century.
		Lambda Literary Award.

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Mouths of rain : an anthology of Black lesbian thought / edited by Briona Simone Jones.

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The New Press, 2021.

Lesbians, Black -- United States -- Literary collections.

Lesbians, Black -- Literary collections.

Lesbians, Black -- United States -- Social conditions.

Lesbians, Black -- Social conditions.

American literature -- Black authors.

American literature -- Women authors.

Lesbians' writings, American.

American literature -- 20th century.

American literature -- 21st century.

Lambda Literary Award.

9781620975763 (pbk)

xxx, 363 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

"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 African American lesbian writers and theorists have made extraordinary contributions to feminist theory, activism, and writing. Mouths of Rain, the companion anthology to Beverly Guy-Sheftall’s classic Words of Fire, traces the long history of intellectual thought produced by Black Lesbian writers, spanning the nineteenth century through the twenty-first century. Using “Black Lesbian” as a capacious signifier, Mouths of Rain includes writing by Black women who have shared intimate and loving relationships with other women, as well as Black women who see bonding as mutual, Black women who have self-identified as lesbian, Black women who have written about Black Lesbians, and Black women who theorize about and see the word lesbian as a political descriptor that disrupts and critiques capitalism, heterosexism, and heteropatriarchy. Taking its title from a poem by Audre Lorde, Mouths of Rain addresses pervasive issues such as misogynoir and anti-blackness while also attending to love, romance, “coming out,” and the erotic."--Publisher.

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Anthology, 2022.

Jones, Briona Simone.

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