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[cosmicanger]

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[sapphicides]

in honor of black history month 2025, i’ve put together a list of books written by black sapphic authors for you to read in the month of february

non-fiction essays/memoirs:

all about love: new visions by bell hooks

black lesbian in white america by anita cornwell

sister outsider: essays and speeches by audre lorde

mouths of rain: an anthology of black lesbian thought by briona simone jones

blues legacies and black feminism by angela davis

does your mama know?: an anthology of black lesbian coming out stories by lisa c. moore

fiction:

the color purple by alice walker

loving her by ann allen shockley

the gilda stories by jewelle gomez

in another place, not here by dionne brand

pomegranate by helen elaine lee

the summer we got free by mia mckenzie

these letters end in tears by musih tedji xaviere

dead in long beach, california by venita blackburn

girl, woman, other by bernadine evaristo

young adult:

escaping mr. rochester by l.l. mckinney

this ravenous fate by hayley dennings

faebound by saraa el-arifa

so let them burn by kamilah cole

where sleeping girls lie by faridah àbíké-íyímídé

adult:

honey girl by morgan rogers

the deep by rivers solomon

sweet vengeance by viano oniomoh

come back (love concealed) by terri ronald

house of hunger by alexis henderson

short stories:

the secret lives of church ladies by deesha philyaw

additional info:

-> “why wasn’t this book listed?” probably because it wasn’t black sapphic-centric, the author isn’t a black sapphic themself, or i just simply haven’t heard of it! so feel free to add on if it meets those two criteria

many of these books require trigger warnings, especially some of the older ones that are more likely to feature racial struggles of the time. please do your due diligence and search for tws if you want to read them!

please feel free to add onto this list in the rbs or comments! happy black history month

[blobbei-art]

Rough refsheet for the Amalgamation! He's got a pretty flexible design.

[dufferpuffer]

Disabled is such a neutral descriptive word.

You are dis-abled. You are not able to do some of the things you would normally be biologically expected to.

Yet you tell someone who needs glasses to see they are disabled and they may be are shocked, or recoil, or deny it. Why? They are not able to see without aid. Disability aid.

Being disabled is treated like a sentence... and that's the biggest part of the problem: the idea that you are made less because of it. Less than full human. Because you can't do ___.

The solution to ableism isn't for me to "stop calling myself disabled", it's for everyone to stop treating "disabled" as a bad word

[myuniverseinabox]

Behold, the ruler of Arcadia. The biggest bastard of them all. Perhaps literally as well. Seraphs are big. Just the daily reminder.

[mirastudiesphysics]

Astronomers are just a little insane for the amount of work we will do to keep things free and accessible. Anyways, here's this almost ~700 page textbook on statistical machine learning for astronomy: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12230 , by Yuan-Sen Ting

The book starts with the basics of probability (what is a random variable, Gaussian distributions, etc.) and works from the ground up to MCMC and neural networks.

[torums]

Useful things exist to be shared. Therefore - here’s a little pile of Og E-Soul references I made. In case anyone needs it:)

[tigerhearts]

my warrior cat sona is basically just nicky nichols but in cat form

[badly-drawn-doflamingo]

This is how some of these cases feel

I know he just lies.

[keferon]

First of all. HOLY SHIT THERE'S PART TWO OF THE REVERSE MECHA RATCHLOCK FIC

Second - I got so excited I decided to design Deadlock~ Because yeah. We didn't really talk about him but Gemma just keeps giving me serotonin and my body is a machine that tirns serotonin into art

[styrofauxm]

Honestly, I am pretty frustrated by the "haha why would anyone hate ace people" responses to Rowling's tweet.

Don't get me wrong, the support is nice. But if you want to be an ally, you have to do so on our terms, not yours. And that means actually engaging with the aspec community, not just posting positivity every now and again. And what those responses highlight to me is what I've known for a while; you guys only support aspec people when it's easy and convenient.

It's easy to support aspec people when it's J.K. Rowling being awful again. It's easy to support us when it's just reblogging an "aspec people are queer" post.

But what about when we are talking about amatonormativity and the relationship hierarchy? When we are discussing the enforcement of compulsory sexuality? When we are pushing for greater awareness and support for aspec identities that are not asexuality or aromanticism? When we are criticizing terminology that you use but harms us? Because I can tell you right now, I rarely see allo people engage with those posts.

Why do people hate asexuality (or any other aspec identity)? Because it challenges the societal norms that benefit them. And that is uncomfortable and scary. So they turn to hate and oppression in order to assure that the changes we push by just openly existing never happen.

That means that to be a good aspec ally, you can't just make a positivity post every now and again, and you can't just laugh about how stupid aphobes are. You have to openly challenge the societal norms that harm us, even if they benefit you. Including but not limited to:

The idea that romantic and sexual attraction is the default state of being (amatonormativity)

The idea that a romantic, sexual relationship completes a person

People in marriages receiving special privileges and benefits

The idea that platonic, familial, etc. attraction are default states of being

The idea that not feeling some form of attraction must be compensated for through another form of attraction

The idea that love (not just romantic) is inherently morally good, while not feeling love is inherently a moral failing

The idea that any one form of relationship is inherently more important or deeper than any other (relationship hierarchy)

The idea that any one thing makes someone human

The idea that not having sex is shameful or infantile

The idea that having sex without romantic love is callous

Gendered divides of sexual and romantic attraction

Other aspec people please feel free to add on/challenge any of this. Allo (not aspec) people please feel free to ask questions.

Additions:

Addition from @blkaroculture

Addition (in tags) from @fluffytimearts

Addition (in tags) from @cjreblogsthings

I've placed some resources for learning more about these topics under the cut.

Amatonormativity:

[PT: Amatonormativity:]

1. Amatonormativity Coining

2. Introduction to Amatonormativity

3. Challenging Amatonormativity

4. Effects of Amatonormativity and Compulsive Sexuality on Asexual and Aromantic College Students

5. Effects of Amatonormativity On Black, Polyamorous Men

6. Essay on Amatonormativity From a Aroallo, Loveless Perspective

Marriage Benefits:

[PT: Marriage Benefits:]

1. Article about Singlism and Marital Privilege

Other Aspec Identities:

[PT: Other Aspec Identities:]

1. Aplatonicism

2. Afamilialism

Loveless:

[PT: Loveless:]

1. Loveless articles on the AUREA website

2. Essay on Amatonormativity From a Aroallo, Loveless Perspective (repeat from Amatonormativity section)

3. Follow-up Essay on Lovelessness and Aroallo Antagonism

4. Results of a Survey of Loveless People (part 2 is linked instead of part 1 as part 1 is mostly demographic information)

5. Guide to Writing Loveless Characters (it focuses on fictional characters so should not be taken as a catch-all for real people, but it still has a ton of good information about lovelessness and loveless antagonism)

Compulsory Sexuality:

[PT: Compulsory Sexuality:]

1. Effects of Amatonormativity and Compulsive Sexuality on Asexual and Aromantic College Students (repeat from Amatonormativity section)

2. Breakdown of Compulsory Sexuality

Relationship Hierarchy vs Relationship Anarchy:

[PT: Relationship Hierarchy vs Relationship Anarchy:]

1. Relationship Anarchy Coining

2. Breakdown of Relationship Anarchy

3. Issues Presented by the Relationship Hierarchy

Oppression:

[PT: Oppression:]

1. Aphobia Masterpost

2. Asexual History and Oppression

3. Asexual Theory 101

Miscellaneous:

[PT: Miscellaneous:]

1. Research on Aromantics

2. Ace in the UK Research and Activism ft. Yasmin Benoit

3. Asexual History and Oppression (repeat from Oppression section)

4. Asexual Theory 101 (repeat from Oppression section)

Books and Video Essays:

[PT: Books and Video Essays:]

An Ace Discourse Retrospective by Jenny Geist

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown

[a-griffin-in-the-sky]

Ohhhh my goddddd you absolute cornflake-brained troglodyte. You think my husbando merch is AI-generated?? every sticker, every acrylic charm, every lovingly laminated shrine photo has been hand-drawn by a real woman with wrist pain and unresolved trauma, sold to me at 3am on Etsy with a thank-you note and a free button. My keychains were birthed in the fires of feminine obsession. My fanfics have typos because they were typed with emotion. You think this was made by a bot? No. It was made by a women who hasn’t known peace since episode 9. My body pillow was DRAWN by a real human WOMEN in who cried over the face she drew!

AI-generated???? Suck my DIY shrine. I have his cosplay jacket i roll around in giggle with. You will NEVER know that kind of power. You will NEVER understand the devotional purity of a girl weeping over her favorite insane man at 4am with a mechanical pencil and a broken heart. The TERF arrogance??? No. The MALE arrogance. You’re jealous we have taste. You’re jealous we make art. Stay mad and husbandoless.

[kaijuno]

CROCKPOT SEASON is here!!! 9 easy and cheap crockpot dump recipes

[bigidiotenergytm]

here's whoreseidon I MEAN poseidon :3c

(some hcs from @shinedoitsulikeabright cause we both own this bitch atp)

[oldmanffucker]

this is getting me so bad