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 Queer Black Digital Library  

Throughout the years I have been able to understand more about my intersectionalities through many of the documents I read and watched, showcased below.

 

On this page I have listed the articles and other media that I have managed to find and read focussed on Queer Black Lives and particularly on Queer POC, Masculine of Centre narratives. I hope that creating this page will help you to learn more about yourself and others.  

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If you would like to receive any PDF articles/books below or if you have any great articles/other media topics you think needs to be put on this page, please contact me here.

Books, Magazines & Articles

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Sista! An anthology of writings by Same Gender Loving Women of African/Caribbean descent with a UK Connection

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Outside the XY: Queer Black and Brown Masculinity

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Queer Around the Word - LGBTQ+ True Stories Anthology

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It's About Damn Time

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In the Dream House: A Memoir

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Honey Girl

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Last Night at the Telegraph Club

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How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective(PDF)

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This Bridge called my back - writings by radical women of color(PDF)

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Black Queer Hoe 

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BAREED MISTA3JIL - Queer Arab Women's Story(PDF)

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The Normal State of Mind by Susmita Bhattacharya

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Sister Outsider

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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name(PDF)

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Black Queer Studies:A Critical Anthology(PDF)

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Boy-Wives and Female Husbands - Studies in African Homosexualities (PDF)

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Female Masculinity(PDF)

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Stone Butch Blues(PDF)

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Butch is not a Dirty Word - Magazine

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Queer.Philosophy.Presentations.of.the.Society.for.Lesbian.

and.Gay.Philosophy.(PDF)

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Gender Failure(PDF)

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No Tea, No Shade

New Writings in Black Queer Studies(PDF)

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Black on Both Sides - A Racial History of Trans Identity(PDF)

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Persistence - All Ways Butch and Femme(PDF)

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Looking Queer - Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender Communities(PDF)

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The Queer Art of Failure(PDF)

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Shotgun Seamstress Zine Collection

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Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing 1995 (PDF)

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Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam

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Article: Diverse sexuality isn't alien to Africa - homophobia is

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Article: Homophobia came to India, not homosexuality

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Article: Anthropologists Hid African Same-Sex Relationships

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Freedom To Love For ALL: Homosexuality is not Un-African

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Youtube

Black.Butch.Woman

Under Your Nose- the story of the first black Lesbian

and  Gay Center in London

'If she grows up Gay'(1983)

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"The Lesbian and the Black Church"

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Lesbian Parents: Tess and Nikina’s Story

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Dyke TV Volume 1: Best of Fall '93

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Dyke TV Volume 2: Best of Winter 94

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Dyke TV Volume 3

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Dyke TV: lesbian representation behind the scene

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The Black Lesbian Handbook (Full documentary)

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Butch:Not like the other girls

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Miss UnderSTUD

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The First Ever Dyke March 1993

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Janae Johnson - "Black Butch Woman"

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It's time to Redefine Masculinity

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Dear Black Love

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Conference:  “Deviant” Pasts, Subversive Futures?

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Meeting The Black Queer Creatives Of South Africa

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Being Masculine And Feminine As A Stem | The Black Lesbian Handbook

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LesTalk Radio

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The_Lez_Factor

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Go Big or Go Home: Plus Size Inclusion in Queer Fashion

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Butch Lesbians Embrace Their Bodies & Masculinity.

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The Peculiar Kind

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Rainbow Films

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Webserie: Real Queers

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African Allies Series - None On Record

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Webserie: Black Lesbian Archives

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Webserie: Queer.ious

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What is Female Masculinity

 

Butch Women Talk About What It Means to Be Butch

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What Makes “Butch” Hot?

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8 Moments Butch Lesbians Know Too Well 

Butch Lesbians Explain : Dating Other Butch Women

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Queer People 16-65 Talk About Identity | Cut

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Old Lesbians Give Advice To Young Lesbians

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Allison Graham Explains the History Behind The Word 'Butch'

| InQueery

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*RARE* Interview with Masculine Lesbians

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Women In Menswear

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Shirt Tips for Androgynous & Masculine Presenting Women 

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How To Find Gender Neutral Clothing On A Budget

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Dressing Beyond The Binary

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6 Satisfying Moments Queer Women Understand

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Journal of Lesbian Studies

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Unpacking Civic Engagement: The Sociopolitical Involvement of Same-Gender Loving Black Women.

Angelique Harris  & Juan Battle.2013.

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Tomboy Chic: Re-Fashioning Gender Rebellion, Jamie Skerski. 2011.

 

Theorizing the lesbian hashtag: Identity,community, and the technological imperative to name the sexual self.

Andrea P. Herrera. 2017.

 

(Re)visualizing Black lesbian lives, (trans)masculinity, and township space in the documentary work of Zanele Muholi.

Z'étoile Imma. 2016.

 

Queer Like Me: Black Girlhood Sexuality on the Playground, Under the Covers,

and in the Halls of Academia

Adalia E. E. James. 2011.

 

Between butch/femme: On the performance of race, gender, and sexuality in a YouTube web series  Siobhan Brooks. 2017.

 

Situating Cyber zone: Black lesbian identity in comics

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Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy

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Identity and Cultural Narrative in a Lesbian Relationship

M. Theodora Pintzuk LCSW. 2008.

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The Black Scholar

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"She has a real connection with them”: Re-imagining and expanding our definitions of Black masculinity and mentoring in education through female masculinity. Bettina L. Love. 2016.

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Play Aunties and Dyke Bitches: Gender, Generation, and the Ethics of Black Queer Kinship. 2019.

 

 “Ghetto Heaven”: Set It Off and the Valorization of Black Lesbian Butch-Femme Sociality. Kara Keeling (2003)

 

Studs and Protest-Hypermasculinity: The Tomboyism within Black Lesbian Female Masculinity

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The John Hopkins University press

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Gender within the lesbian sexuality: Butch and Femme perspectives.

Heidi M. Levitt & Katherine, R. Hiestand. 2006.

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Critical Studies in Media Communication

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“Making a gay masculinity”

Fred Fejes. 2009.

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JSTOR

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 Queer Black Feminism: The Pleasure Principle. Laura Alexandra. 1996.

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GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

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Queer Theory and Native Studies: The Heteronormativity of Settler Colonialism. 2010.

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Queer Studies African Studies: An (Im)possible Transaction. 2016.

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Black Atlantic, Queer Atlantic: Queer Imaginings of the Middle Passage, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley. 2008.

Journal of Constructivist Psychology

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Butches, Femmes, and Feminists:

The Politics of Lesbian Sexuality

Elizabeth A. Smith. 1989.

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Journal of Homosexuality

 

Seeing Double, Thinking Twice

Jean Bobby Noble. 2008.

 

Feminine but Not Femme

Diana Luzzatto & Liora Gvion. 2008.

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You Look Like a Dude, Dude”: Masculine Females Undoing Gender in the Workplace, Raine Dosier. 2018.

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Patriarchy, Power, and Female Masculinity. Athena Nguyen. 2008

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Women & Performance journal

 

Lesbian masculinity or even stone butches get the blues,

Judith Halbersta. 2008.

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Women's Studies in Communication

 

An Appetite for Activism: The Lesbian Avengers and the Queer Politics of

Visibility. Erin J. Rand. 2013.

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