sash & trim and other playsby Djola Branner Djola Branners first collection of dramatic work, sash & trim and other plays, takes the reader on a journey through blackness and queerness in ways that stretch the imagination and chronicle the history of black peoples in the diaspora, says E. Patrick Johnson, professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. Comprised of short plays cover (2006), oranges & honey (2005), the house that crack built (1996) and a full length

World Literature Today

Yabo calls our ghosts back and holds us accountable for memory

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Carry the Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books is a seminal reference work

This is a book that lifts off and lifts up

by Samiya Bashir

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and through the journey by yola across the sea between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico

showing in the process what it truly means to create

Bashir’s poems challenge truth to stare down the power of fear and paralysis

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far-reaching