With the freedom that the Women in Print movement inspired, southern lesbian feminists remade southernness as a site of intersectional radicalism, transgressive sexuality, and liberatory space. Including in her study well-known authors—like Dorothy Allison and Alice Walker—as well as overlooked writers, publishers, and editors, Harker reconfigures the southern literary canon and the feminist canon, challenging histories of feminism and queer studies to include the south in a formative role. For more information about Jaime Harker, visit the Author Page. It is a vital contribution to literary history forging a bridge between southern literary studies and LGBT literary studies. It is also a pleasurable read.

In particular, it centers the life stories of more than seventy Black, queer women from the U. With their lives and experiences as the focus, E. He also puts the complexity of Black female sexuality on display, drawing out multiple themes—childhood and adolescence; mother-daughter relationships; gender performances; religion and spiritua He also puts the complexity of Black female sexuality on display, drawing out multiple themes—childhood and adolescence; mother-daughter relationships; gender performances; religion and spirituality; sexual desires; dating and intimacy; and creative and political work. The book is divided into two parts. Keywords: Black , queer , lesbian , South , women , identity , sexuality. Forgot password?

In this video conversation, E. Johnson discusses the black women who influenced his early exposure to the arts, conceptions of ethnography and oral history, and finding theory in the quotidian. This event took place on March 22, , in the Stuart A. Black women who influenced Johnson's thinking about literature, folklore, the arts, and "quare theory" while growing up in western North Carolina and when attending UNC—Chapel Hill Johnson's approach to interviewing and transcribing, selecting and editing narratives for print publication, and recording stories of everyday sexual violence

Author Website. At once transcendent and grounded in place and time, these narratives raise important questions about queer identity formation, community building, and power relations as they are negotiated within the context of southern history. Johnson uses individual stories to reveal the embedded political and cultural ideologies of the self but also of the listener and society as a whole. These breathtakingly rich life histories show afresh how black female sexuality is and always has been an integral part of the patchwork quilt that is southern culture.