Alessandra is living her dream in Atlanta. Alessandra and her best friend Kris takes Atlanta by storm as they adjust to their new home. On a day at the mall Alessandra meets a sexy rough neck named Waheed. Waheed is everything Alessandra’s always wanted in a man. He’s a gentleman, businessman, handsome, excellent in bed, … More {New Release} He Fell For A T-Girl by:Lore
In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist, Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. In this poetic work inspired by Hortense Spillers, Gumbs offers an alternative approach to Black feminist literary criticism, historiography, and the interactive … More {Book Attraction} Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity by: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality. Building on the foundations laid by the earlier volume, this collection’s contributors speak new truths about the black queer … More {Book Attraction} No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies by: E. Patrick Johnson
Outside the XY: Queer Black and Brown Masculinity is an anthology of more than 50 stories, memories, poems, ideas, essays and letters–all examining what it looks like, feels like, and is like to inhabit masculinity outside of cisgendered manhood as people of color in the world. Read these passionate, complex autobiographical glimpses into the many … More {New Release} Outside the XY: Black and Brown Queer Masculinity by:Morgan Mann Willis
This compelling book recounts the history of black gay men from the 1950s to the 1990s, tracing how the major movements of the times—from civil rights to black power to gay liberation to AIDS activism—helped shape the cultural stigmas that surrounded race and homosexuality. In locating the rise of black gay identities in historical context, … More {Book Attraction} Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis by: Kevin Mumford
When things go bump in the night it may be more than a headboard slamming against the wall. Ghosts, ghouls, vampires, werewolves, witches demons and the living dead can invoke fear, fantasy and fatal attraction. Add an urban setting and you have a sadistically wonderful black, gay erotic romance. Please send your 10,000 – 12,500 … More {Submission} Creeps in the Night
It’s about that time again to attend the Fire & Ink Conference. This year the conference will be held in Detroit and the theme is Witness. “Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.”—James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time Fire & Ink … More {Event} Fire & Ink IV: Witness
