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
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
You! Inez! / Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson
Can it be? / Alice Walker
A Mona Lisa / Angelina Weld Grimké
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
Part II, Interlocking oppressions and identity politics, 1980-2020. Audre Lorde
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
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
Part IV, The sacred, 1970-2020. M. Jacqui Alexander
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
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.