Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories (2nd ed.)
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Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories (2nd ed.)
This edition
"Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories". Ed. Lisa C. Moore. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: RedBone Press, 2009. xvi+383 pp. (with 17 new stories)
Other editions, reprints, and translations
"Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories." Ed. Lisa C. Moore. Decatur, GA: RedBone Press, 1997. iv+314 pp.
Table of contents
(2nd ed.; new items with asterisk):
● Lisa C. Moore / Introduction
● Hope Massiah / 1985: Memories of My Coming Out year
● Arlene Williams / A Letter for Life
● Martine C. Barbier / A Path to Wholeness
● Terri Jewell / A Short Account of My Behavior
● alexis pauline gumbs / all along (*)
● Sheree Slaughter / And Now They Know
● Brigitte M. Roberts / Be Still and Know
● Gale "Sky" Edeawo / Bed of Thorns
● Alexis De Veaux / Bird of Paradise
● Imani Henry / Bits and Pieces
● L. K. Barnett / Black Triangles, Rainbows and Dykes
● Fiona Zedde / “Bliss” [excerpt] (*)
● mistinguette / cabaret
● Ana-Maurine Lara / Cimarrona Ciguapa (*)
● Liza Wesley / Class Reunion
● Gwendolyn Bikis / Cleo's Gone
● Tiona McClodden / coming out is an “always” thing . . . (*)
● Michele Hunter / Coming Out Story
● Staceyann Chin / Coming Out to the Caribbean (*)
● C. C. Carter / Coming Out to Mom (*)
● Olive Demetrius / First Generation Lesbian (*)
● Laura Irene Wayne / From a Lesbian Womb into a Lesbian World: Coming Out
● A. Naomi Jackson / Grist for the Mill (*)
● Denise Moore / Halfway Home: Interview with Katherine James
● Michelle Sewell / Harold Walker (*)
● Selly k. Thiam / I Am Recording (*)
● Tonda Clarke / I Guess I Never Will
● Jewelle Gomez / I Lost It at the Movies
● Terri Jewell / Interview with Stephanie Byrd
● L. K. Barnett / It Happened One Sunday Afternoon
● Becky Birtha / Johnnieruth
● Donna Allegra / Lavender Sheep in the Fold
● Michelle Wilkinson / Letter to Carolyn
● Samiya Bashir / Letter to Dad (*)
● Tiffani Frazier / Long Way Home
● Lenelle Moïse / Madivinez (*)
● Makeda Silvera / Man Royals and Sodomites: Some Thoughts on the Invisibility of Afro-Caribbean Lesbians
● Cheryl Clarke / Mavis writes in her journal
● Letta Neely / Me, Growing Up (part 1)
● Terri Jewell / Miss Ruth
● Kimberly "Q" Purnell / Mommy Always Knows
● Shay Youngblood / Mothers Know
● Kiyana Horton / Next to the Women’s Section (*)
● Shilanda Woolridge / No Half Steppin'
● akhaji zakiya / notes to momma
● Tonia Bryan / Pure
● Karen Thompson / Q & A
● Tonya Parker / Scene 1: I’m Coming Out (*)
● Mattie Richardson / Spice
● sharon bridgforth / that beat
● Almah LaVon Rice / Teach Me to Number My Daze (*)
● Kortney Ryan Ziegler / Thanks (*)
● Ekua Omosupe / The Journey
● sherece taffe / The Making of an Orphan: the death of a daughter's place in the family
● Roxane Gay / The Woman in Me
● Tonia Bryan / The Words I Know, the Way I Understand
● Michele Hunter / This Is Not Done
● akhaji zakiya / this lesbian poem
● Hanifah Walidah / Those Damn Wool Pants and Suspenders (*)
● Nailah Taliba Tulinegwe / untitled
● Renita Martin / untitled (4/'91)
● Denise A. Moore / Waiting to Exhale: Interview with Gina Taylor
● Eva Yaa Asantewaa / we will not talk about this
● Lena-Nsomeka Gomes / When I Was a Little Girl
● Liz Messerly / Without Thinking
● mistinguette / You ask why I stayed married all those years
● Contributors
● Permissions
● About the Editor
● Lisa C. Moore / Introduction
● Hope Massiah / 1985: Memories of My Coming Out year
● Arlene Williams / A Letter for Life
● Martine C. Barbier / A Path to Wholeness
● Terri Jewell / A Short Account of My Behavior
● alexis pauline gumbs / all along (*)
● Sheree Slaughter / And Now They Know
● Brigitte M. Roberts / Be Still and Know
● Gale "Sky" Edeawo / Bed of Thorns
● Alexis De Veaux / Bird of Paradise
● Imani Henry / Bits and Pieces
● L. K. Barnett / Black Triangles, Rainbows and Dykes
● Fiona Zedde / “Bliss” [excerpt] (*)
● mistinguette / cabaret
● Ana-Maurine Lara / Cimarrona Ciguapa (*)
● Liza Wesley / Class Reunion
● Gwendolyn Bikis / Cleo's Gone
● Tiona McClodden / coming out is an “always” thing . . . (*)
● Michele Hunter / Coming Out Story
● Staceyann Chin / Coming Out to the Caribbean (*)
● C. C. Carter / Coming Out to Mom (*)
● Olive Demetrius / First Generation Lesbian (*)
● Laura Irene Wayne / From a Lesbian Womb into a Lesbian World: Coming Out
● A. Naomi Jackson / Grist for the Mill (*)
● Denise Moore / Halfway Home: Interview with Katherine James
● Michelle Sewell / Harold Walker (*)
● Selly k. Thiam / I Am Recording (*)
● Tonda Clarke / I Guess I Never Will
● Jewelle Gomez / I Lost It at the Movies
● Terri Jewell / Interview with Stephanie Byrd
● L. K. Barnett / It Happened One Sunday Afternoon
● Becky Birtha / Johnnieruth
● Donna Allegra / Lavender Sheep in the Fold
● Michelle Wilkinson / Letter to Carolyn
● Samiya Bashir / Letter to Dad (*)
● Tiffani Frazier / Long Way Home
● Lenelle Moïse / Madivinez (*)
● Makeda Silvera / Man Royals and Sodomites: Some Thoughts on the Invisibility of Afro-Caribbean Lesbians
● Cheryl Clarke / Mavis writes in her journal
● Letta Neely / Me, Growing Up (part 1)
● Terri Jewell / Miss Ruth
● Kimberly "Q" Purnell / Mommy Always Knows
● Shay Youngblood / Mothers Know
● Kiyana Horton / Next to the Women’s Section (*)
● Shilanda Woolridge / No Half Steppin'
● akhaji zakiya / notes to momma
● Tonia Bryan / Pure
● Karen Thompson / Q & A
● Tonya Parker / Scene 1: I’m Coming Out (*)
● Mattie Richardson / Spice
● sharon bridgforth / that beat
● Almah LaVon Rice / Teach Me to Number My Daze (*)
● Kortney Ryan Ziegler / Thanks (*)
● Ekua Omosupe / The Journey
● sherece taffe / The Making of an Orphan: the death of a daughter's place in the family
● Roxane Gay / The Woman in Me
● Tonia Bryan / The Words I Know, the Way I Understand
● Michele Hunter / This Is Not Done
● akhaji zakiya / this lesbian poem
● Hanifah Walidah / Those Damn Wool Pants and Suspenders (*)
● Nailah Taliba Tulinegwe / untitled
● Renita Martin / untitled (4/'91)
● Denise A. Moore / Waiting to Exhale: Interview with Gina Taylor
● Eva Yaa Asantewaa / we will not talk about this
● Lena-Nsomeka Gomes / When I Was a Little Girl
● Liz Messerly / Without Thinking
● mistinguette / You ask why I stayed married all those years
● Contributors
● Permissions
● About the Editor
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