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Keeping it unreal : Black queer fantasy and superhero comics / by Scott, Darieck,author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-253) and index.Introduction: Fantastic Bullets -- I Am Nubia: Superhero Comics and the Paradigm of the Fantasy-Act -- Can the Black Superhero Be? -- Erotic Fantasy-Acts: The Art of Desire -- Conclusion: On Becoming Fantastical."Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics explores how fantasy-especially superhero comics, which are usually derided as naïve and childish-is a catalyst for engaging the black radical imagination. Such engagements prompt 'fantasy-acts' against antiblackness, a transgressive way of 'reading' beyond the comic-book page to envision and to experience alternate, and potentially more just, realities. Fantasies about superhero characters are not just or even primarily forms of escape, the author argues, but are active reshapings of readers and their worlds. This book offers a rich meditation on the relationship between fantasy and reality, and between the imagination and being, as it weaves Scott's personal recollections of his encounters with superhero comics with interpretive readings of figures like the Black Panther, Luke Cage, Nubia, and Blade, and theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Eve Sedgwick, Leo Bersani, Saidiya Hartman, and Gore Vidal"--

Subjects: Fantasy comics.; African American superheroes.; African Americans; Fantasy; Fantasy literature.; Queer theory.; Queer comic books, strips, etc.; Queer theory.; Queer comics.;

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Blood lust / by Galaway, C.J.;

Tempers and passions rise in both the pack and the Blackwood family as brother and sister set their sights on the title of pack leader. In the human world, both siblings are making their mark in their respective businesses, with Nikki’s star starting to rise, while Adam is making his expertise in the art world known. However, none of this matters in the affairs of a pack who is seeking to recover and heal from the enslavement it had faced for so long and only seeks a leader who will keep them free and unknown to the human world.But an outsider is feeding Adam's lust to dominate humans and poisoning his mind as well, causing him to let his emotions and hatred fuel his judgments and cloud his decisions, giving his ambitions a deadly razor’s edge and a lust to cause his sister pain that she may never recover from, which gives this outsider a way to tilt the scales of power in Adam’s favor for good, if he can rein in and control the young wolf’s lust for revenge.Will you let your lusts rule you?

Subjects: Queer fiction.; Fiction.; Erotic fiction.; Vampires; Local author.;

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Lush lives / by Lyon, J. Vanessa,author.(CARDINAL)853325;

"With beguiling wit and undeniable passion, Lush Lives is a deliciously queer and sexy novel about bold, brilliant women unafraid to take risks and fight for what they love. An unabashedly charged love story set in the evocative and high-stakes world of art and auction in New York City. For Glory Hopkins, inheriting her aunt Lucille's Harlem brownstone feels more like a curse than a blessing. As a restless artist struggling to find gallery representation, Glory doesn't have the money, time, or patience to look after the aging house of an aunt she barely knew. But when she stumbles into Parkie de Groot, a savvy, ambitious auction house appraiser on the verge of a coveted promotion, her unexpected inheritance begins to look more promising. Glory and Parkie form an unlikely alliance and work to unearth the origins of a rare manuscript hidden in the brownstone's trove. In doing so, they uncover not only the well-kept secrets of Lucille's life but also the complex relationships between Harlem and its distinguished residents. Undeniable as their connection may be, complications arise that threaten to tear apart their newly forged relationship. Between Parkie's struggle to overcome the heartache of past romances and professional problems that threaten to end her rising career, and Glory's unbridled and all-consuming drive, they begin to keep secrets from each other. The deeper they dig into the mysteries of the Harlem brownstone, the more fraught their relationship becomes. Lush Lives is an unforgettable novel of queer love, ambition, and the forgotten histories that define us"--

Subjects: Lesbian fiction.; Erotic fiction.; Queer fiction.; Novels.;

Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 13

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Tender / by Williams, Carla,1965-photographer.(CARDINAL)421307; Container of (work):Miller-Young, Mireille,1976-Carla Williams's Black feminist pornographic gaze.; TBW Books (Oakland, Calif.),publisher.;

"TBW Books is pleased to present Tender, the first monograph by artist Carla Williams. Made in private between 1984 and 1999 and kept mostly to herself for more than thirty years, the images in Tender comprise a complete, personal self-portrait of a young, queer, Black woman intimately exploring the realm of her own possibility. When Williams was eighteen and studying photography at Princeton, she began making the black and white and color portraits in Tender to create pictures in her own image. Her mind was filled equally with the canonical images of the medium's male-driven history and the posing women discovered during her youth in her father's pornography collection. Using her own body, Williams created the portraits she had never seen before. Made with instant Polaroid 35mm and 4x5 type 55 film formats, Williams profited from the near instant result to continuously play with her own expression and form. An act of tender commune with herself, these are every version of the artist on full display: provocative, playful, sensual, gentle, powerful, mean, glamorous, forlorn, funny. The photographs in Tender are ignited with the raw energy of a young artist on the cusp of adulthood and her own burgeoning sexual identity. Included in the book are essays by the artist and scholar Mireille Miller-Young." -- Publisher's website."It all started when I decided on the spur of the moment to purchase an old postal sorting cabinet on eBay. After getting it home and installed in the living room, I had to figure out what to do with it, so being photographically inclined I thought, 'why not sort snapshots in it?' As a photographer and the keeper of my family's photographs I figured I'd fill all 63 slots; I filled less than a quarter. So I sorted through all of my photo boxes, eager to fill more slots, and I came upon a stack of Type 669 Polaroid 3½ x 4¼ prints, ones I'd quickly made about twenty years ago using one of those old Vivitar instant slide printers. There were soft-­focus images processed using an obscure, highly toxic direct-positive formula I concocted from the Photographer's Formulary (and of which, at the time, I was extremely proud, being the non-technician that I was). Most I had shot using Polaroid 35mm instant slide film--Polagraph, Polapan, and Polablue--gorgeous, silvery slips that, of course, you just couldn't see easily unless you printed them. These were only ever intended for my reference, so I didn't take any particular care with them; besides, I was plagued, it seemed, by technical misfortune: Polaroid slide film had to be processed using a small machine in which you'd roll the film out along with its developing pack, wait a designated number of seconds, then roll it back into the canister. Many of my rolls were inexplicably streaked in this processing, hence the frequent white stripes that appear in the subsequent prints. As usual, I made the most of these technical mistakes, sometimes more successfully than others, but I had so many of them I couldn't abandon all of the images that had streaking, scratches, or other ailments. And of course, now that all of those products and the equipment are no longer available/obsolete, the materiality of these small prints takes on an added significance. When I began to sort through the stack a funny thing happened-I rediscovered how much I loved these photos, and I loved this fearless young woman who was making them. Here I could see the origins of everything, when photography was endlessly fun and exciting and something I did persistently and constantly in part for the joy of looking. What I saw was a very young photographer enthralled by the medium and its history. There's my homage to my favorite Lee Friedlander self-portrait (Philadelphia, 1965), which has always best summed up the utterly mundane and unpretty process of photographing one's self; my paper backdrop cuttings a la Francis Bruguière--in short, the whole of my photo history education to that point was reflected in the kinds of images I made and sought to make..." -- Full Statement available at :Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. 2023 First PhotoBook Shortlist.

Subjects: Lesbian erotic art; Nude photographs.; Photobooks.; Queer erotic art.; Williams, Carla, 1965-; Williams, Carla, 1965-; African American lesbians; African American women; Female nude in art.; Photography of the nude.; Photography of women; Photography, Artistic; Pinup art; Post-pornography.; Self-portraits, American; African American queer people.; Black feminism.;

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Mouths of rain : an anthology of Black lesbian thought / by Jones, Briona Simone,editor.;

Includes bibliographical references."A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thought by Black Lesbian writers, in the tradition of The New Press's perennial seller Words of Fire"--Foreword: We won't stop the rain / Cheryl Clarke -- Mouths of rain: Be opened / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- Introduction: No hand, no gaze / Briona Simone Jones -- Part I: Uses of the erotic, 1909-2020 -- Ma Rainey -- Cheryl Clarke -- Red Jordan Arobateau -- You! Inez! / Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson -- Can it be? / Alice Walker -- A Mona Lisa / Angelina Weld Grimke -- Love poem / Audre Lorde -- Woman / Audre Lorde -- Uses of the erotic: The erotic as power / Audre Lorde -- Kittatinny / Cheryl Clarke -- B.D. Woman's Blues / Lucille Bogan -- Finer with time / Michelle Parkerson -- Jambula Tree / Monica Arac de Nyeko -- Metamorphosis / Pat Parker -- My lover is a woman / Pat Parker -- Sunshine / Pat Parker -- Celebrant / Terri Jewell -- Part II: Interlocking oppressions and identity politics, 1980-2020 -- Audre Lorde -- Barbara Smith -- Three for the price of one: notes from a gay, Black feminist / Anita Cornwell -- A meeting of the sapphic daughters / Ann Allen Shockley -- To be an orphan inside of ٢blackness٣ / Dawn Lundy Martin -- Ain't I a woman? / Kai Davis -- Not feminine as in straight, but Femme as in queer #AF: The queer & black roots of my femme expression / experience / Kaila Story -- Wolfpack / Mecca Jamilah Sullivan -- We are here / Pamela Sneed -- Part III: Coming out and stepping into, 1978-2020 -- Catherine E. McKinley and L. Joyce Delaney -- Lisa C. Moore -- The wedding / Beverly Smith -- poem from No Language Is Neutral / Dionne Brand -- Angelina Weld Grimke: (1880-1958) / Akasha Gloria Hull-- aubade, in pieces, for my ex-lovers / JP Howard -- Black Butch Woman / Janae Johnson -- Curtain 1983 / Jewelle Gomez -- Notes on speechlessness / Michelle Cliff -- Living single / Moya Bailey -- funny / Pat Parker -- Part IV: The sacred, 1970-2020 -- M. Jacqui Alexander -- Omotara James -- Interspecies / Alexis De Veaux -- her relationship to Africa lives in the part of her that is eight years / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- Black Pearl: A poetic drama for four voices / Arisa White -- How to make art / Cheryl Boyce-Taylor -- Erzulie-Oshun (Georgia style) / doris diosa davenport -- Without name / Pauli Murray -- Fighting racism: An approach through ritual / SDiane Bogus -- Sangodare Akinwale / Anew -- excerpt from love conjure / blues / Sharon Bridgforth -- Part V: Radical futurities, 1976-2020 -- Barbara Jordan -- Demita Frazier -- Charlene A. Carruthers -- The Shape of my impact / Alexis Pauline Gums -- I am your sister: Black women organizing across sexualities / Audre Lorde -- Towards a Black feminist criticism -- A ratchet lens: Black queer youth, agency, hip hop, and the Black ratchet imagination -- Deviance as resistance: A new research agenda for the study of Black politics / Cathy J. Cohen -- Never mind the misery / Where's the magic / doris diosa davenport -- At another crossroads / Kate Rushin -- The myth and tradition of the Black bulldagger / SDiane Bogus -- Play aunties and dyke bitches: gender, generation, and the ethics of Black queer kinship -- Archiving Black lesbians in practice: The Salsa Soul Sisters Archival Collection / Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz -- More than human: Black feminisms of the future in Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories.

Subjects: Literature.; African American lesbians; African American lesbians; American literature; American literature; Lesbians' writings, American.; American literature; American literature; African American lesbians.;

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Pacifico Silano : the eyelid has its storms ... by Silano, Pacifico,1986-photographer.(CARDINAL)855865; Lavalette, Shane,1987-writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)783613; Light Work (Organization : Syracuse, N.Y.),organizer,host institution,publisher.(CARDINAL)188261; Robert B. Menschel Media Center,host institution.(CARDINAL)313642;

"Pacifico Silano's The Eyelid Has Its Storms ... borrows its title from a Frank O'Hara poem. O'Hara's musings and observations about everyday queer life inspired Silano's artistic practice. 'The eyelid has its storms, ' the poem begins. 'There is the opaque fish-scale green of it after swimming in the sea and then suddenly wrenching violence, strangled lashed, and a barbed wire of sand falls onto the shore.' O'Hara's deeply visual poem, like Silano's work, evokes duality--in memory, in the present, and future, shimmering beauty and umbral violence often occur at once. Through the appropriation of photographs from vintage gay pornography magazines, Silano creates colorful collages that explore print culture and the histories of the LGBTQ+ community. His large-scale works evoke strength and sexuality while acknowledging the underlying repression and trauma that marginalized individuals experience. Born at the height of the AIDS epidemic, Silano lost his uncle due to complications from HIV. 'After he died, ' says Silano, 'his memory was erased by my family due to the shame of his sexuality and the stigma of HIV/AIDS around that time period.' Silano set out to create art that reconciled that loss and erasure. Silano's exhibition somberly contemplates such pain and photography's role in the struggle for queer visibility, while celebrating enduring love, compassion, and community. In collaging, Silano decisively fragments, obscures, and layers images that he has rephotographed from these magazines. He reassembles and ultimately recontextualizes these images, removing the overtly explicit original content. 'These new pictures-within-pictures are silent witnesses that allude to absence and presence, ' says Silano. He sees them as stand-in memorials, both for the now-missing models as well as those who originally consumed their images. Silano meditates on the meaning of the images and tearsheets that he collects over time. What continually excites him is precisely the 'slipperiness' of representation and meaning in photography as our culture shifts. 'The lens that we read [images] through today gives them new context and meaning, ' he observes. 'In another 30 or 40 years, they might very well mean something completely different'"--Light Work description online at source URL: https://www.lightwork.org/archive/pacifico-silano-the-eyelid-has-its-storms

Subjects: Silano, Pacifico, 1986-; Gay erotic photography; Gay men in art; Loss (Psychology) in art; Photocollage;

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Shoes : a history from sandals to sneakers / by Riello, Giorgio.(CARDINAL)480226; McNeil, Peter,1966-(CARDINAL)689372;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-435) and index.Introduction: A long walk: shoes, people and places / Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeil -- STEP 1. A FOOT IN THE PAST: Beneath their shining feet: shoes and sandals in classical Greece / Sue Blundell -- Sumptuous shoes: making and wearing in medieval Italy / Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli -- Courtly lady or courtesan? the Venetian chopine in the Renaissance / Andrea Vianello -- Walking the streets of London and Paris in the Enlightenment / Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello -- War Wellingtons: military footwear in the Age of Empire / Alison Matthews David -- The perils of choice: women's footwear in nineteenth-century America / Nancy Rexford -- STEP 2. ENCOUNTERS AND CULTURAL INTERACTIONS: Purity, pollution and place in traditional Japanese footwear / Martha Chaiklin -- Interrogating Africa's past: footwear amongst the Yoruba / Tunde M. Akinwumi -- A dream of butterflies? shoes in Chinese culture / Paola Zamperini -- STEP 3. SHOES, BODIES AND IDENTITIES: Fashioning masculinity: men's footwear and modernity / Christopher Breward -- A delicate balance: women, power and high heels / Elizabeth Semmelhack -- Shoes and the erotic imagination / Valerie Steele -- Sex and sin: the magic of red shoes / Hilary Davidson -- Beyond the rainbow: queer shoes / Clare Lomas, Peter McNeil and Sally Gray -- STEP 4. REPRESENTATION AND SELF-PRESENTATION: Made in Italy: Ferragamo and twentieth-century fashion / Stefania Ricci -- Style through design: form and function / Giovanni Luigi Fontana -- Sole representation: shoe imagery and twentieth-century art / Julia Pine -- Limousines for the feet: the rhetoric of trainers / Alison Gill -- Conclusion. The male Cinderella: shoes, genius and fantasy / Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello.

Subjects: Shoes;

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Little Rabbit / by Songsiridej, Alyssa,author.;

"Cleanness meets Conversations with Friends in this sly, sensual, daring debut novel about art, autonomy, and the thin line between power and submission. When the unnamed narrator of Little Rabbit first meets the choreographer at an artists' residency in Maine, it's not a match. He thinks her serious, guarded, always running away to write. She finds him loud, conceited, domineering. But when he reappears in her life in Boston and invites her to his dance company's performance, she's compelled to attend. Their interaction at the show sets off a summer of expanding her own body's boundaries: She follows the choreographer to his home in the Berkshires, to his apartment in New York, and into submission during sex. Her body learns to obediently follow his, and his desires quickly become inextricable from her pleasure. She wants it; this must be happiness, right? Back in Boston, her roommate Annie's skepticism amplifies her own doubts about these heady weekend retreats. What does it mean for a queer young woman to partner with an older man, for a fledgling artist to partner with an established one? Is she following her own agency, or is she merely following him? Does falling in love mean eviscerating yourself? Then why has her writing never been better? Is this transcendence or surrender? Combining the sticky sexual politics of Luster with the dizzying, perceptive intimacy of Cleanness, Little Rabbit is a wholly new kind of coming-of-age story about female lust, punishment, and the language-defying desires that challenge the hard won boundaries of the self"--

Subjects: Erotic fiction.; Novels.; Choreographers; Women authors; Bisexual women; Multiracial people; Roommates; Sexual dominance and submission; Interpersonal relations; Self-actualization (Psychology); Bisexual women.;

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