#black literature black authors

[that-butch-archivist]

"Lesbian Weddings" by Wendy Jill York

source: The Femme Mystique, edited by Lesléa Newman

[macrolit]

Giveaw@y: We’re giving away 12 vintage paperback classics! Won’t they look lovely on your shelf? =) Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 30 September 2023. Good luck!

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[muskaanayesha]

Peace be upon the daughter who helped her parents grow up. Accepted their cold shoulder, excused their anger, pardoned their mistakes, taught them how to be human. Peace be upon the sister who paid the price of rebellion. Screaming to her fullest, shaking like a leaf but standing tall, never letting the dictatorship go without a fight, paving the path for her siblings to breathe easier. Peace be upon the first child of an immigrant father. Aching to find their own purpose in life, firm in their own beliefs, contradicting generations and generations of cultural values. Peace be upon the girl who shouldered her mother's trauma. Swindled it into her own, morphed herself into an image of the womb she once resided in, immersed herself into troubles that weren't even hers, covered up scars that she couldn't even recognize. Peace be upon the woman who forgot who she was. So determined to be the savior of everyone, to fix her family, to nurture and love everyone around her. So deeply lost that she forgot she's just as worthy of love. Peace be upon you.

[littlewiseeyes]

Black women.

Black men.

Black people.

🖤🤎

[thatsbelievable]

[aponii1]

Maya Angelou reading.

[highsummonertemptress]

I recently discovered these books and thought I'd share so we can all read and support these authors✨

[academic-vampire]

𝙻𝚒𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚜. 🚬

[diana-andraste]

Les travailleurs de la mer, Victor Hugo, 1866

"...the octopus, oh horror! breathes you in. It draws you to it, and into it; and bound, ensnared, powerless, you feel yourself slowly emptied into that frightful pond, which is the monster itself. Beyond the terrible, being devoured alive, is the inexpressible, being drunk alive…”

[bones-ivy-breath]

The Lost Love by Fenton Johnston

[saturn-metaphors]

@saturn-metaphors

[that-butch-archivist]

"Untitled" by Parminder Sekhon, 1994

source: Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image, edited by Susie Bright and Jill Posener

[desdemonas-intellectual-nonsense]

“I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once their hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.”

James Baldwin, “Notes of a Native Son” 1955

[theartoffresco]

[bdapublishing]

Everyone meet Salem! He's a pretty 'lil guy from Canada and he's definitely BDA's cutest employee.

P.S. Salem says to check out A Tainted Soul by A.W. Rene!

[macrolit]

Invisible Man Ralph Ellison FYI - this is 1 of 12 vintage paperback classics that comprise our current giveaw@y.