How the Words of Nikky Finney Help Get Us Through Breaking Up & Breaking Down
Candice Iloh on how the work of the poet Nikky Finney can help us navigate through the world
‘Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith’ by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks with Barbara Smith
[Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around is] a collection of stories that stress not only the importance of a movement but also its role and influence in larger society and culture as a whole.
‘Dryland’ by Sara Jaffe
Adults and teen readers will appreciate this coming-of-age tale which captures a girl’s initial steps to finding her sexual identity and the emotional struggles of navigating adolescence
‘Dragon Horse War: The Calling’ by D. Jackson Leigh
The world has experienced 100
‘Prayer of the Handmaiden’ by Merry Shannon
It’s been awhile since we’ve
‘Under The Udala Trees’ by Chinelo Okparanta
Chinelo Okparanta has written a new classic of the lesbian novel, timeless in its risk and heart, immediate in its voice for the persecuted LGBT people of Nigeria
‘Let Me Explain You’ by Annie Liontas
Let Me Explain You is a story about relationships—between sisters, between countrymen, between people and place, between food and memory, between languages, between time and space
Author Quintan Ana Wikswo on the Limitations and Power of Labels
“Primarily, I wanted to see if I could write a book in which issues of love, erotics, desire, and sex could be momentarily liberated from conventional categorizations of gender identity.”
A Poem by Diana Hamilton
This week, a poem by
‘Barbara Gittings: Gay Pioneer’ by Tracy Baim
Baim’s book introduces this stalwart activist to a broad audience, and Gittings’ determination, achievement and love for her community shines through.
