TY - BOOK AU - Jones,Briona Simone TI - Mouths of rain: an anthology of Black lesbian thought SN - 9781620975763 PY - 2021///] CY - New York PB - The New Press KW - African American lesbians KW - Literary collections KW - Social conditions KW - American literature KW - African American authors KW - Women authors KW - Lesbians' writings, American KW - 20th century KW - 21st century N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 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 -- The sacred, 1970-2019 -- Radical futurities, 1976-2019 N2 - "A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thought by Black Lesbian writers, in the tradition of The New Press's perennial seller Words of Fire"-- ER -