Preface to the Rutgers University Press Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Poem, Akasha (Gloria) Hull
The Blood--Yes, The Blood
For a Godchild, Regina, On the Occasion of Her First Love, Toi
Derricotte
The Damned, Toi Derricotte
Hester's Song, Toi Derricotte
The Sisters, Alexis De Veaux
Debra, Michelle T. Clinton
If I Could Write This In Fire, I Would Write This In Fire, Michelle
Cliff
The Blood--Yes, the Blood: A Conversation, Cenen and Barbara
Smith
Something Latino Was Up With Us, Spring Redd
"I Used To Think", Chirlane McCray
The Black Back-Ups, Kate Rushin
Home, Barbara Smith
Artists Without Art Form
"Under The Days": The Buried Life and Poetry of Angelina Weld
Grimké, Akasha (Gloria) Hull
The Black Lesbian in American Literature: An Overview, Ann Allen
Shockley
Artists Without Art Form, Renata Weems
I've Been Thinking of Diana Sands, Patricia Jones
A Cultural Legacy Denied and Discovered: Black Lesbians in Fiction
by Women, Jewelle L. Gomez
What It Is I Think She's Doing Anyhow: A Reading of Toni Cade
Bambara's The Salt Eaters, Akasha (Gloria) Hull
Black Lesbians--Who Will Fight For Our Lives But Us?
Tar Beach, Audre Lorde
Before I Dress and Soar Again, Donna Allegra
LeRoy's Birthday, Raymina Y. Mays
The Wedding, Beverly Smith
Maria de las Rosas, Becky Birtha
Miss Esther's Land, Barbara A. Banks
The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community, Cheryl
Clarke
Where Will You Be? Pat Parker
A Home Girls' Album
Selected Photographs
A Hell of a Place to Ferment a Revolution
Among the Things That Use To Be, Willie M. Coleman
From Sea to Shining Sea, June Jordan
Women of Summer, Cheryl Clarke
The TIred Poem: Last Letter from a Typical Unemployed Black
Professional Woman, Kate Rushin
Shoes Are Made for Walking, Shirley O. Steele
Billy de Lye, Deirdre McCalla
The Combahee River Collective Statement, Combahee River
Collective
Black Macho and Black Feminism, Linda C. Powell
Black Lesbian/Feminist Organizing: A Conversation, Tania Abdulahad,
Gwendolyn Rogers, Barbara Smith, Jameelah Waheed
For Strong Women, Michelle T. Clinton
The Black Goddess, Kate Rushin
Women's Spirituality: A Household Act, Luisah Teish
Only Justice Can Stop a Curse, Alice Walker
Coalition Politics: Turning the Century, Bernice Johnson Reagon
Contributors' Biographies
Barbara Smith is an independent scholar and was co-founder and publisher of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. She has been writer in residence and taught at numerous colleges and universities for over twenty-five years. The author of many books, articles, and essays, including The Truth That Never Hurts (also by Rutgers University Press).
The survival of these women and their joy makes Home Girls very
satisfying.
*Essence*
A provocative and important new collection.
*Ms.*
Pungent and varied, full of questions, convictions, and
insights.
*The Nation*
It is fitting that Home Girls also reflects and celebrates the
difference, among the [thirty-three] Black feminist writers,
critics, and theorists assembled from the United States and the
Caribbean, among Black women of all colors, classes, and cultures.
More importantly, it reflects and celebrates our connections.
*Women's Review of Books*
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