Last year, I posted this on the last day of Black History Month as part of the Around the Blogosqueer feature. This year, I thought it’d be nice to start a tradition of just adding to it every year as a BHM staple, keeping the old stuff but continuously providing new content, and posting it in th middle of February. Living history FTW.
Sites
Sistahs on the Shelf – SotS is run by Rena, a Black lesbian who reviews Black lesbian books. You can also follow on Twitter at @SotS!
WoC in Romance – this is a site highlighting all Romance written by WoC, but there’s a page just for LGBTQ Romances. It’s run by Rebekah Weatherspoon, whose name you may recognize as being a prolific author of LGBTQ lit herself! You can follow on Twitter at @WOCInRomance, and make sure you check out their Patreon; link is in the pinned tweet!
Black Lesbian Literary Collective – To nab from their site, “The Black Lesbian Literary Collective creates a nurturing and sustainable environment for Black lesbian and queer women of color writers.” Looking for more reviews of Black lesbian fic? Ta da! The site is new, so it’s not packed with posts just yet, but there is already an active radio show linked to it. Find them on Twitter at @LezWriters.
The Brown Bookshelf – this is a site dedicated to Black kidlit; here are the posts that come up if you search LGBT.
Books
*=new additions this year
Middle-Grade
- Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender (Stonewall Award Winner)
- The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson
Young Adult
- The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum*
- This is What it Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow
- A Phoenix First Must Burn ed. by Patrice Caldwell*
- This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kheryn Callender
- Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert (Stonewall Award winner)
- Until You Came Back by Jay Coles*
- Jake in the Box by Ryan Douglass*
- Pet by Akwaeke Emezi*
- The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons*
- Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett*
- The Secrets of Eden by Brandon Goode
- Dread Nation by Justina Ireland*
- A Place for Wolves by Kosoko Jackson
- Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann
- If it Makes You Happy by Claire Kann*
- 37 Things I Love (in No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon*
- A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney*
- Home and Away by Candice Montgomery (Bi LI)
- By Any Means Necessary by Candice Montgomery*
- The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus*
- Odd One Out by Nic Stone*
- Running with Lions by Julian Winters
- How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters*
- The Beauty that Remains by Ashley Woodfolk*
- Black Enough ed. by Ibi Zoboi*
NA/Adult Contemporary
- Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole*
- Hamilton’s Battalion by Alyssa Cole, Courtney Milan, and Rose Lerner
- Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
- Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn*
- For Sizakele by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene*
- Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala*
- The Spies Who Loved Her series by Katrina Jackson*
- The Welcome to Seaport series by Katrina Jackson*
- She Called Me Woman ed. by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, and Aisha Salau*
- Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
- When We Speak of Nothing by Olumide Popoola*
- F*ths by G.L. Thomas
- Sugar and Ice by Brooklyn Wallace*
- Tailor-Made by Yolanda Wallace
- Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon*
- So Sweet by Rebekah Weatherspoon
NA/Adult (Speculative)
- To Terminator, With Love by Wes Kennedy*
- Shatterproof by Xen Sanders
- An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon*
- The Root by Na’amen Gobert Tilahun*
- Better off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon*
- Every Dark Desire by Fiona Zedde
Comics
- Bingo Love by Tee Franklin*
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