Home Girls: A Black Feminist AnthologyBarbara Smith The pioneering anthology Home Girls features writings by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and writings. This edition features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides a fresh assessment of how Black women's lives have changed-or not-since the book was first published. Contributors are Tania Abdulahad, Donna Allegra, Barbara A. Banks, Becky Birtha, Julie Carter, Cenen, Cheryl Clarke, Michelle Cliff, Michelle T. Clinton, Willie M. Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Alexis De Veaux, Jewelle L. Gomez, Akasha (Gloria) Hull, Patricia Jones, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Raymina Y. Mays, Deidre McCalla, Chirlane McCray, Pat Parker, Linda C. Powell, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Spring Redd, Gwendolyn Rogers, Kate Rushin, Ann Allen Shockley, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, Shirley O. Steele, Luisah Teish, Jameelah Waheed, Alice Walker, and Renita Weems. |
Contents
Preface to the Rutgers University Press Edition | xiii |
Acknowledgments | xix |
Homophobia in | xlvii |
Poem | lix |
The Damned | 6 |
Debra | 13 |
A Conversation | 31 |
Something Latino Was Up With Us | 52 |
Black LesbiansWho Will Fight | 143 |
Dress and Soar Again | 159 |
Maria de las Rosas | 170 |
Where Will You Be? | 202 |
Among the Things That Use to Be | 213 |
Women of Summer | 222 |
Last Letter from a Typical | 247 |
Billy de Lye | 262 |
The Black BackUps | 60 |
The Buried Life and Poetry | 73 |
Artists Without Art Form | 94 |
Ive Been Thinking of Diana Sands | 106 |
A Reading | 124 |
Black Macho and Black Feminism | 275 |
A Conversation | 285 |
For Strong Women | 312 |
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