This volume launches the first sustained discussion of the need for a queer of color conceptual framework around Black, lesbian female identity. Specifically, this volume addresses the necessity for a more integrated framework within queer studies, in which the variables of race/ethnicity are taken into consideration. This book is unique in that it highlights a triple-jeopardy minority group that has been historically marginalized and concludes with the proposal of a much-needed framework for researchers to begin to create a baseline of knowledge/research under the umbrella of the Black Queer Identity Matrix.

Black Queer Identity Matrix: Towards An Integrated Queer of Color Framework (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)

Literature & Fiction

Howard, Sheena C.

History & Criticism

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

The Encyclopedia of Black Comics, focuses on people of African descent who have published significant works in the United States or have worked across various aspects of the comics industry. The book focuses on creators in the field of comics: inkers, illustrators, artists, writers, editors, Black comic historians, Black comic convention creators, website creators, archivists and academics—as well as individuals who may not fit into any category but have made notable achievements within and/or across Black comic culture.

Encyclopedia of Black Comics

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Lawrence Hill Books

The most award-winning, internationally acclaimed comics and graphic novel magazine in the medium’s history returns to print!The Comics Journal, which is renowned for its in-depth interviews, comics criticism, and thought-provoking editorials, features Gary Groth in frank and often hilarious discussion with the satirist and children’s book author Tomi Ungerer. Ungerer talks about the entire trajectory of his life and career: growing up in France during the Nazi occupation, creating controversial work, and being blacklisted by the American Library Association. This issue, the first in its new twice-a-year format, covers the “new mainstream” in American comics ― how the marketplace and overall perception of the medium has drastically shifted since the “graphic novel boom” of the early 2000s and massive hits like Persepolis, Fun Home, and Smile. It also includes sketchbook pages from French-born cartoonist Antoine Cossé’ an introduction to homoerotic gag cartoons out of the U.S. Navy; and Your Black Friend cartoonist Ben Passmore’s examination of comics and gentrification. Full-color illustrations throughout.

The Comics Journal #303

Comics & Graphic Novels

Groth, Gary

Cossé, Antoine

Graphic Novels

Fantagraphics Books

There's no such thing as perfect love. Nina Chandler knows this to be true. Even so, love is the one thing missing from her almost perfect life. With a medical degree and new house, she's worked hard to twist and tug her dreams into reality. But with her twenties almost over, it sometimes feels like she slept through the party and woke up to find everyone gone. When a young woman cannonballs into Nina's world, she's a big, bold example of everything Nina isn't. Page, with her edgy personality and free spirit is...perfect. Nina struggles to understand why someone so effervescent would be drawn into her small, suburban life, but her insecurity fades before the glory of Page's adulation. Of course, there's no such thing as perfect love. Nina tells herself that, when small red flags rise and fall. A moment of pure, selfish recklessness. A sharp word, a bone-cold look. But if there's one thing Nina has always been good at, it's hushing the voices of doubt that get between her and her ambitions--until those dreams start to spin out of control, and become a nightmare she can't wake up from. "Howard is the kind of captivating storyteller whose characters linger long after you finish reading. This is an urgent, timely, and captivating text that challenges our understandings of race, gender, sexuality, and the forms and faces of abuse. This book promises to haunt, anger, console, and ultimately inspire anyone who opens it." --Marc Lamont Hill, Host of BET News and author of Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond

Nina's Whisper

Dramas & Plays

Sheena C. Howard

A graphic narrative adaptation of the Amazon #1 bestselling novella, Nina's Whisper. Nina's Whisper: A Graphic Narrative is one of the best new voices in domestic suspense, thriller and lesbian fiction genres. A page-turning debut in the tradition of Carmen Machado's, In The Dream House, Nina's Whisper is a thriller fueled by love, lust, trauma, survival and triumph.There's no such thing as perfect love.Nina Chandler knows this to be true. Even so, love is the one thing missing from her almost perfect life. With a medical degree and new house, she's worked hard to twist and tug her dreams into reality. But with her twenties almost over, it sometimes feels like she slept through the party and woke up to find everyone gone.When a young woman cannonballs into Nina's world, she's a big, bold example of everything Nina isn't. Page, with her edgy personality and free spirit is?perfect. Nina struggles to understand why someone so effervescent would be drawn into her small, suburban life, but her insecurity fades before the glory of Page's adulation.Of course, there's no such thing as perfect love.Nina tells herself that, when small red flags rise and fall. A moment of pure, selfish recklessness. A sharp word, a bone-cold look. But if there's one thing Nina has always been good at, it's hushing the voices of doubt that get between her and her ambitions-until those dreams start to spin out of control, and become a nightmare she can't wake up from.

Nina's Whisper: A Graphic Narrative

After the Earth survived annihilation from an asteroid which was destroyed by a group of heroic astronauts, the resultant meteor shower turned Youngstown, Ohio, into a Level 5 impact zone. After a Columbine-like incident in which a superpowered teenager exploded and killed other youngsters, the Foresight Corporation took over Youngstown to find and regulate any other teenagers with emerging powers. Kayla Tate has returned to Youngstown because her parents are scientists for Foresight. Kayla has reunited with her childhood friend, Jonah Watkins, a young man with Down syndrome. Kayla and Jonah are learning about each other again, as a mysterious new superhuman named Cosmosis has become the Internet sensation as the hero of Youngstown. Kayla discovers that Cosmosis . . . is Jonah! Based on his favorite comic book hero, Jonah is using the secret powers he gained from the meteor shower to help people and fight bad guys. To protect Jonah, and discover the sinister mysteries of her town, Kayla uses her own powers gained from a meteor fragment to fight alongside Jonah as the hero Amina. When Amina and Cosmosis discover that young superpowered people are being kidnapped and trained to become Earth’s best line of defense against the possibility of an alien invasion, the two teenage heroes use their abilities to stop Foresight, all the while helping each other navigate through resentment, naivete, and the awkward steps of rekindling their friendship.

Superb Vol. 1: Life After the Fallout (1)

Walker, David F.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Oni Press

Cosmosis and Amina, the new young superpowered crimefighters of Youngstown, Ohio, are at war with the Foresight Corporation in order to rescue kidnapped teenagers with extraordinary abilities. With the help of their mysterious ally, an inventor named Abbie, the heroes take on Foresight’s new paramilitary team of enhanced teenagers. No matter who wins, both sides will suffer casualties.

Superb Vol. 2: Generation Wars (2)

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