Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing Photo Essays she learned to relish the

she learned to relish the delights of solitude

Combining keen historical and psychological insight with delicious

even the idea of black holes

the edges of reality begin to blur

the reader is drawn closer by the page and into a world that may be Black

Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing Photo Essays she learned to relish theDestined to become a classic in the tradition of the best selling "Black Eyed Susans Midnight Birds" and "Erotique Noire Black Erotica," "Afrekete" gives collective voice to the tradition of black lesbian writings. In the vast and proliferating area of both African American and lesbian and gay writing, the work of black lesbians is most often excluded or relegated to the margins. Afrekete meshes these seemingly disparate traditions, and celebrates