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

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

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

Audre Lorde: The Black Unicorn

UK 1978, 127 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Penguin UK

Filled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde's most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, female strength and vulnerability, renewal and revenge, goddesses and warriors, ancient magic and contemporary America. These are fearless assertions of identity, told with incantatory power. Audre Lorde writes as a black woman, a mother, a daughter, a lesbian, a feminist, a visionary - poems ... Weiterlesen

Marion Kraft: Empowering Encounters with Audre Lorde

D 2018, 120 pp., brochure, € 13.20
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Unrast

A hommage to the great Afroamerican lesbian poet and feminist Audre Lorde. Her works were essential for liberation movements in many countries and are still up to date today. She as a person gave the new Black movement in Germany during the 1980s direction. Marion Kraft was a personal friend of Audre Lorde. She uses essays, speeches and interviews of ... Weiterlesen

Audre Lorde: Your Silence Will not Protect You

UK 2017, 230 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Silver

Lorde seems prophetic, perhaps alive right now, writing in and about the US of 2017 in which a misogynist with white supremacist followers is president. But she was born in 1934, published her first book of poetry in 1968, and died in 1992. Black, lesbian and feminist - the child of immigrant parents - poet and essayist, writer and activist, ... Weiterlesen

Audre Lorde: A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

USA 2017, 144 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
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ixia press

Winner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our spirit. Lorde announces the need for a radical politics of intersectionality while struggling to maintain her own faith as she wages a battle against liver cancer. From reflections on her struggle with the disease to ... Weiterlesen

Devon W. Carbado, Dwight A. McBride and Donald Wei: Black Like Us

A Century of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual African American Fiction. USA 2011, 555 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Cleis - Gay and Lesbian Studies

Showcasing the work of literary giants like Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde and writers whom readers may be surprised to learn were �in the life�, �Black Like Us� is a comprehensive collection of fiction by African American lesbian, gay and bisexual writers - from the Harlem Renaissance to the Great Migration of the Depression era, from the postwar civil ... Weiterlesen

Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider

Foreword by Cheryl Clarke. USA 2007 (1984), 190 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Crossing Press

Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, �Sister Outsider� celebrates an influential voice in 20th-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle ... Weiterlesen

Keith Boykin: Beyond the Down Low

USA 2006, 311 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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Writer and activist Boykin addresses what he sees as the implicitly racist and homophobic undertones of the media's coverage. He offers a point-by-point refutation of King's take �On the Down Low�, Boykin accuses King of serving up another �stereotypical image of black men as pathological liars, surreptitiously satisfying their primitive sexual cravings by cheating on their wives�. Boykin details how ... Weiterlesen

Audre Lorde: The Collected Poems

USA 1997, 489 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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W. W. Norton

Collected here for the first time are more than three hundred poems from one of this country's major and most influential poets, representing the complete oeuvre of Audre Lorde's poetry. Lorde published nine volumes of poetry which, in her words, detail �a linguistic and emotional tour through the conflicts, fears, and hopes of the world I have inhabited�. Included here ... Weiterlesen

Alice Walker: The Color Purple

USA 2014 (1st ed. 1982), 264 pp., pb., € 14.95
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�The Color Purple� is a lesbian classic. With over a million copies sold in the UK alone, it is hailed as one of the all-time 'greats' of literature, inspiring generations of readers. Set in the deep American South between the wars, it is the tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the ... Weiterlesen