Mouths of rain : an anthology of Black lesbian thought / edited by Briona Simone Jones.

New York : The New Press, [2021]

xxx, 363 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword. We won't stop the rain / Cheryl Clarke -- Mouths of rain : be opened / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- Introduction. No hand, no gaze / Briona Simone Jones -- Part I, Uses of the erotic, 1909-2020. Ma Rainey -- Cheryl Clarke -- Red Jordan Arobateau -- You! Inez! / Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson -- Can it be? / Alice Walker -- A Mona Lisa / Angelina Weld Grimké -- Love poem / Audre Lorde -- Woman / Audre Lorde -- Uses of the erotic : the erotic as power / Audre Lorde -- Kittatinny / Cheryl Clarke -- B.D. woman's blues / Lucille Bogan -- Finer with time / Michelle Parkerson -- Jambula tree / Monica Arac de Nyeko -- Metamorphosis / Pat Parker -- My lover is a woman / Pat Parker -- Sunshine / Pat Parker -- Celebrant / Terri Jewell -- Part II, Interlocking oppressions and identity politics, 1980-2020. Audre Lorde -- Barbara Smith -- Three for the price of one : notes from a gay, Black feminist / Anita Cornwell -- A meeting of the sapphic daughters / Ann Allen Shockley -- To be an orphan inside of "blackness" / Dawn Lundy Martin -- Ain't I a woman? / Kai Davis -- Not feminine as in straight, but femme as in queer #AF : the queer & black roots of my femme expression/experience / Kaila Story -- Wolfpack / Mecca Jamilah Sullivan -- We are here / Pamela Sneed -- Part III, Coming out and stepping into, 1978-2020. Catherine E. McKinley and L. Joyce Delaney -- Lisa C. Moore -- The wedding / Beverly Smith -- poem from No Language Is Neutral / Dionne Brand -- Angelina Weld Grimké : (1880-1958) / Akasha Gloria Hull -- aubade, in pieces, for my ex-lovers / JP Howard -- Black butch woman / Janae Johnson -- Curtain 1983 / Jewelle Gomez -- Notes on speechlessness / Michelle Cliff -- Living single / Moya Bailey -- funny / Pat Parker -- Part IV, The sacred, 1970-2020. M. Jacqui Alexander -- Omotara James -- Interspecies / Alexis De Veaux -- her relationship to Africa lives in the part of her that is eight years / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- Black Pearl : a poetic drama for four voices / Arisa White -- How to make art / Cheryl Boyce-Taylor -- Erzulie-Oshun (Georgia style) / doris diosa davenport -- Without name / Pauli Murray -- Fighting racism : an approach through ritual / SDiane Bogus -- Anew / Sangodare Akinwale -- excerpt from love conjure / blues / Sharon Bridgforth -- Part V, Radical futurities, 1976-2020. Barbara Jordan -- Demita Frazier -- Charlene A. Carruthers -- The shape of my impact / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- I am your sister : Black women organizing across sexualities / Audre Lorde -- Towards a Black feminist criticism / Barbara Smith -- A ratchet lens : Black queer youth, agency, hip hop, and the Black ratchet imagination / Bettina Love -- Deviance as resistance : a new research agenda for the study of Black politics / Cathy J. Cohen -- Never mind the misery/where's the magic / doris diosa davenport -- At another crossroads / Kate Rushin -- The myth and tradition of the Black bulldagger / SDiane Bogus -- Play aunties and dyke bitches : gender, generation, and the ethics of Black queer kinship / Savannah Shange -- Archiving Black lesbians in practice : the Salsa Soul Sisters Archival Collection / Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz -- More than human : Black feminisms of the future in Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda stories / Susana Morris.

Winner, Lambda Literary Award for Anthology, 2022.

Winner, the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, 2022.