Joshua Ammissah (ed.): Black Masculinities

D 2023, 320 pp., colour, b/w, hardback, € 42.00
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Cantz
Black Masculinities explores the broad spectrum and diversity of Black masculinities through the medium of contemporary photography. Seen through the lenses of 22 Black (or) People of Color (BPoC) from around the world, the stereotypic entanglement of Black identity and masculinity is deconstructed and charged with a new set of values. Embedded in a long history of slavery, racism and ... Weiterlesen
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Welby Ings (R): Punch

Neuseeland 2022, engl. OF, dt. UT, 98 min., € 19.99
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Salzgeber
Ein Küstenstädtchen in Neuseeland: Der 17-jährige Jim ist ein großes Boxtalent, der nächste Sieg könnte ihn zum Profi machen. Sein Vater Stan, der ihn streng trainiert, selbst aber ein Alkoholproblem hat, setzt große Hoffnungen in den athletischen jungen Mann. Doch Jim ist sich selbst nicht so sicher, wo er eigentlich hin will - vor allem nach seiner ersten Begegnung mit ... Weiterlesen

Bretten Hannam (R): Wildhood

CAN 2021, engl., migmaq-OF, dt. UT, 100 min., € 17.99
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Salzgeber
Der 16-jährige Link und sein Halbbruder Travis leben bei ihrem gewalttätigen Vater in einem Trailer-Park an der Ostküste Kanadas. Als Link erfährt, dass seine indigene Mutter, anders als der Vater immer erzählt, noch am Leben sein könnte, machen sich die Brüder auf die Suche nach ihr und einem besseren Leben. Auf ihrem Weg treffen sie den Two-Spirit Pasmay, der Link ... Weiterlesen

Zak Salih: Let's Get Back to the Party

USA 2022, 304 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Algonquin
Estranged childhood friends Oscar and Sebastian - both too young to have a personal relationship with the AIDS crisis but too old to have enjoyed the freedom of an out adolescence - spend a year grappling with cultural identity, generational change, and what they see in, and owe to, each other. 2015, weeks after the Supreme Court marriage equality ruling: ... Weiterlesen

Mithu M. Sanyal: Identitti

Transl. by Alta Price. D 2022, 400 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Voland und Quist
Nivedita (a.k.a. Identitti), a doctoral student who blogs about race with the help of Hindu goddess Kali, is in awe of Saraswati, her outrageous superstar post-colonial and race studies tutor. But Nivedita's life and sense of self begin to unravel when it emerges that Saraswati is actually white. Hours before she learns the truth Nivedita praises her tutor in a ... Weiterlesen

Nathan Harris: The Sweetness of Water

USA 2021, 368 pp.,brochure, € 14.95
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Headline
In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry - freed by the Emancipation Proclamation - seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. ... Weiterlesen

S. A. Cosby: Razorblade Tears

UK 2022, 321 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Headline
Ike has been out of jail for 15 years. But a black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son, Isiah, has been murdered, along with Isiah's white husband, Derek. Isiah was a gay black man in the American South - Ike couldn't bring himself to attend ... Weiterlesen

Pola Oloixarac: Mona

Transl. by Adam Morris. UK 2022, 176 pp., hardback, € 14.95
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Serpent´s Tail
Mona is a Peruvian writer based on a Californian campus, open-eyed and sardonic, a connoisseur of marijuana and prescription pills. She has discovered being an anthropological curiosity - a female writer of colour treasured for diversity in her department. When she is nominated for »the most important literary award in Europe«, Mona sees a chance to escape and leaves for ... Weiterlesen

Collective X: Slayeth!

Letters of Love from and for Queer Black Folxs. D 2022, 96 pp., pb, € 8.30
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This intimate collection of letters from Queer Black writers from the diaspora is a declaration of love to the beauty, strength, and resilience of their ancestors - past and present - as they continue to carve their own way into the future. Each letter provides a space for the reader to feel seen, heard, and comforted through prose. Each page ... Weiterlesen

Robert Jones, jr.: The Prophets

UK 2022, 388 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Quercus
A novel about the forbidden gay union between two enslaved young black men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence. Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the end. In the ... Weiterlesen

Hanya Yanagihara: To Paradise

UK 2022, 720 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Macmillan
In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, ... Weiterlesen

Bernardine Evaristo: Manifesto

UK 2021, 208 pp., hardbound, € 19.99
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Penguin UK
In 2019, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize since its inception fifty years earlier - a revolutionary landmark for Britain. Her journey was a long one, but she made it, and she made history. »Manifesto« is her intimate and fearless account of how she did it. From a childhood steeped in racism from neighbours, ... Weiterlesen

Chella Man: Continuum

UK 2021, 64 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Penguin UK - Pocket Change Collective
In »Continuum«, fine artist, activist, and Titans actor Chella Man uses his own experiences as a deaf, transgender, genderqueer, Jewish person of color to talk about cultivating self-acceptance and acting as one's own representation. What constructs in your life must you unlearn to support inclusivity and respect for all? This is a question that artist, actor, and activist Chella Man ... Weiterlesen

Brontez Purnell: 100 Boyfriends

USA 2021, 180 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Transgressive, foulmouthed, and devastatingly funny, »100 Boyfriends« is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting - and often losing - the urge to self-sabotage. His characters solicit sex on their lunch breaks, expose themselves to racist neighbors, sleep with their coworker's husbands, rub Preparation H on their hungover eyes, and, in an uproarious epilogue, take ... Weiterlesen

Bryan Washington: Lot

Stories. UK 2021, 222 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Atlantic
In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys. This boy and his family experience the tumult of living in the margins, ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Allen / Yasufumi Nakori: Zanele Muholi

UK 2020, 200 pp., brochure, € 69.95
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Tate Publishing
Born in South Africa in 1972, Zanele Muholi came to prominence in the early 2000s with photographs that sought to envision black lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and intersex lives beyond deviance or victimhood. Muholi's work challenges hetero-patriarchal ideologies and representations, presenting the participants in their photographs as confident and beautiful individuals bravely existing in the face of prejudice, intolerance, ... Weiterlesen

George M. Johnson: All Boys Aren't Blue

UK 2020, 320 pp. pb., € 14.95
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and gay activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and ... Weiterlesen

Kai Linke: Good White Queers?

Racism and Whiteness in Queer U.S. Comics. D 2020, 330 pp., brochure, € 41.20
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How do white queer people portray our own whiteness? Can we, in the stories we tell about ourselves, face the uncomfortable fact that, while queer, we might still be racist? If we cannot, what does that say about us as potential allies in intersectional struggles? A careful analysis of »Dykes To Watch Out For« and »Stuck Rubber Baby« by queer ... Weiterlesen