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A great collection of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Good variety of style.Trigger warning for sexual assault and violence.
Important, startling stories and essays.
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Catherine E. McKinley introduces this book as such:”The contributors and these editors identify as lesbian, gay, zamis, dykes, queers, Black, African, African-American, biracial—and often may use these terms and others interchangeably. And while sexuality, or race for that matter, is and is not always at the center of their work, both deeply inform the writer’s vision. The work featured is written in a range of styles, a breadth of aesthetics reflecting the birthing and meshing of seemingly disp...
Afrekete is an anthology of twenty entries of essays, stories and poems collected and edited by the team of Catherine E. McKinley and L. Joyce DeLaney. It gives a collective voice to the tradition of black lesbian writing.For the most part, this collection of short stories was written rather well. Afrekete is a wonderful collection of short stories, essays, and poems that center on a fictional titular character and through her the varied forms of literature that are produced. By and large, the s...
It's been years since I read this book, but I was really excited to find it at a used bookstore in New Orleans and sad and perplexed to find that it had been removed from the circulation of the New Orleans public library. What's up with that?I remember being impressed...
4 1/2 Stars. As an aspiring writer who is also a Black same gender loving woman, I found this collection intimately inspiring and restorative. The works in this collection are diverse, sensual, authentic, poetic, and provocative. They are both comforting and challenging. Soothing yet jarring. I highly recommend this book not only to other Black SGL women but also to anyone who is interested in diverse perspectives on love, identity, justice, and the struggle of living fully.
