Mouths of rain: an anthology of Black lesbian thought

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

Uses of erotic, 1909-2019

Interlocking oppressions and identity politics, 1980-2020

Coming out and stepping into, 1978-2019

The sacred, 1970-2019

Radical futurities, 1976-2019.

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.