Celebrating Black LGBTQIA Stories: Selections from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Collection
In celebration of Pride Month this year, Princeton University Library highlights the following books written by Black LGBTQIA authors or about Black LGBTQIA lives, stories, and histories, selected from the Gender & Sexuality Studies Collection at Firestone Library. PUL is committed to preserving, featuring, and supporting these historically underrepresented voices in the collections.
Books available online:
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
C. Riley Snorton
Black Sexuality Studies
Robert Reid-Pharr
The Bold World: A Memoir
Jodie Patterson
How We Fight For Our Lives: A Memoir
Saeed Jones
No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies
E. Patrick Johnson (ed.)
Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers
Anne Balay
Sensual Excess: Queer Feminity and Brown Jouissance
Amber Jamilla Musser
Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities
Rogers Brubaker
The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom
Barbara Smith
Books available for pick up:
Handbook of LGBT Elders: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Principles, Practices, and Policies
Debra A. Harley and Pamela B. Teaster (eds.)
Jam on the Vine: A Novel
LaShonda Katrice Barnett
Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora, and Black Studies
Rinaldo Walcott
Queer Times, Black Futures
Kara Keeling
Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen
Kortney Ryan Ziegler
Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in Houston
William T. Hoston
The Tradition
Jericho Brown
Your Silence Will Not Protect You
Audre Lorde
Compiled by Sara Howard, Librarian for Gender & Sexuality Studies and Student Engagement and Stephanie Ramírez, Communications Specialist and Staff Writer
Media contact: Barbara Valenza, Director of Library Communications
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