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M. Jacqui Alexander
Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory and the Sacred (Duke 2006)
Jafari S. Allen
Venceremos?: The Erotics of Self Making in Cuba (Duke 2011)
There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: a Theory of Black Gay Life (Duke 2022)
Marlon M. Bailey
Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit (Michigan 2013)
Moya Bailey
Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (NYU Press 2021)
Charlene A. Carruthers
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements (Beacon Press, 2018)
Keith Clark
Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson (Illinois, 2002)
The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry (Louisiana State, 2013)
Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines: A Roadmap for Readers (Louisiana State, 2020)
Lynnee Denise
Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters (UTexas 2024)
Debbie Douglas, Courtney McFarlane, Makeda Silvera
Ma-Ka Diasporic Juks: Contemporary Writing by Queers of African Descent (Sister Vision 1997)
Sokari Ekine & Hakim Abbas
Queer African Reader (Pambazuka 2013)
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Lyndon K. Gill
Erotic Islands: Art & Activism in the Queer Caribbean (Duke 2018)
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Thomas Glave
Our Caribbean: a Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (Duke 2008)
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Survival is Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde (Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2024)
Destiny Hemphill
motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life (Action Books 2023)
Poetry as Spellcasting (North Atlantic Books, 2023)
Audre Lorde
Sister Outsider (Crossing 1984)
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde (Norton 1997)
Assotto Saint
Spells of a Voodoo Doll (Masquerade 1996)
Briona Simone Jones
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought (The New Press, 2021).
Mel Michelle Lewis
Biomythography Bayou
Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr.
Sexual Discretion: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
Amber Musser
Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU Press, 2014), Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (NYU Press, 2018), and Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke University Press, 2024)
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C. Riley Snorton
Black on Both Sides: A Radical History of Trans Identity (University of Minnesota Press, 2017).
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L.H. Stallings
The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life (Indiana UP 2021)
A Dirty South Manifesto: Sexual Resistance and Imagination in the New South (UC Press2019)
Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures (U Illinois Press 2015)
Mutha is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth and Queerness (the Ohio State Univ. Press 2007)
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Big Girl (W.W. Norton & Co, 2022)
The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora (University of Illinois, 2021)
Blue Talk and Love (Riverdale Avenue Books, 2015)
Omise’eke N. Tinsley
Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders (Duke 2018)
Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism Between Women in Caribbean Literature (Duke 2010)
Gloria Wekker
The Politics of Passion: Women’s Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora (Columbia 2006)
Yvonne Welbon, Thomas Allen Harris, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, LaMonda Horton-Stallings, Marlon Rachquel Moore..
Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African American Lesbian Media Making (Duke University Press 2018)
Michelle M. Wright
Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology (UMN Press, 2015).