#Black sapphic authors

[shegoestoeleven]

thank you for doing this work, @sapphicides!

in honor of black history month 2025, i’ve put together a list of books written by black sapphic authors for you to read in the month of february

non-fiction essays/memoirs:

all about love: new visions by bell hooks

black lesbian in white america by anita cornwell

sister outsider: essays and speeches by audre lorde

mouths of rain: an anthology of black lesbian thought by briona simone jones

blues legacies and black feminism by angela davis

does your mama know?: an anthology of black lesbian coming out stories by lisa c. moore

fiction:

the color purple by alice walker

loving her by ann allen shockley

the gilda stories by jewelle gomez

in another place, not here by dionne brand

pomegranate by helen elaine lee

the summer we got free by mia mckenzie

these letters end in tears by musih tedji xaviere

dead in long beach, california by venita blackburn

young adult:

honey girl by morgan rogers

escaping mr. rochester by l.l. mckinney

this ravenous fate by hayley dennings

faebound by saraa el-arifa

so let them burn by kamilah cole

where sleeping girls lie by faridah àbíké-íyímídé

adult:

the deep by rivers solomon

sweet vengeance by viano oniomoh

come back (love concealed) by terri ronald

house of hunger by alexis henderson

short stories:

girl, woman, other by bernadine evaristo

the secret lives of church ladies by deesha philyaw

additional info:

-> “why wasn’t this book listed?” probably because it wasn’t black sapphic-centric, the author isn’t a black sapphic themself, or i just simply haven’t heard of it! so feel free to add on if it meets those two criteria

many of these books require trigger warnings, especially some of the older ones that are more likely to feature racial struggles of the time. please do your due diligence and search for tws if you want to read them!

please feel free to add onto this list in the rbs or comments! happy black history month

[that-butch-archivist]

"Untitled" by Parminder Sekhon, 1994

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

[the-bi-library]

May I interest you in upcoming black bisexual books by black authors? Also a few bonus books which are not upcoming but I am looking forward to read them so I included them too!

Happy Black history month!

Books included:

Solo Stan by Talia Tucker @taliatuck

Where Shadows Meet by Patrice Caldwell

The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste

Iron Tongue of Midnight by Brittany N. Williams

Something Kindred by Ciera Burch

The Billion Dollar Dynasty by Dominique Davis

Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory

Roar of the Lambs by Jamison Shea

Spiraling Out by Maya Ameyaw

An Arcane Inheritance by Kamilah Cole

Death Card by Jasmine Smith

Sparks Fly by Zakiya N. Jamal

Bonus books:

Everyone's Thinking It by Aleema Omotoni

More to Love by Georgina Kiersten

In The House of Transcendence by Amanda B. Weaver (formerly Amanda Ross)

[noahhawthorneauthor]

"Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me." -Bayard Rustin

*Edit to add that Adiba Jaigirdar is Bangladeshi/Irish, not Black. Apologies !

[her-stars]

100+ black books coming in 2024 🫶🏾📚

[lovely-cherubs]

This is my official coming out post. I already came out before but I'm doing this again:

I'm Greyrose (aka greysexual and greyromantic or grey aroace). I've been thinking about this for quite some time and I've realized that I feel attraction to people, but VERY rarely. There's also the fact that I haven't had a "crush" on anyone since 5th grade so yeah. I feel pretty comfortable using the label as it describes how I feel so yeah, that's really it.

I'd also like to take this chance to say this: afro latino asexuals, you are valid. Afro latino aromantics, you guys are valid. Afro latino aroace individuals and afro latino people who are on the acespec, arospec, or aroacespec spectrums, you are all valid ❤️

[fromthetorturedpoet]

i'll watch you sleep

Chapters: 7/7 - Complete

Words: 24,343

Fandom: Harry Potter

Rating: Mature

Relationships: Sirius Black/Remus Lupin

Additional Tags: Lesbian Wolfstar, Butch Remus Lupin, Trans Female Sirius Black, Welsh Remus Lupin, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Non-Magical, RomanceHurt/Comfort, Writer Sirius Black, Getting Together, Marauders Era (Harry Potter), Strangers to Lovers, Pride Month, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, Implied/Referenced Transphobia, Queerphobic Language, Pining, Yearning, Wolfstar AU, POV Sirius Black, Eventual Smut, Meet-Cute, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Title from a Girl in Red Song, She/Her Pronouns for Sirius Black, She/Her Pronouns for Remus Lupin

"For the past five years, Sirius Black had spent most of her time writing about sexuality and love, building a career based on what felt like lies to her, while she had never been in love herself.

Then one day, she couldn't write anymore.

She already knew a getaway from her daily routine was needed, feeling on the verge of what Martha Graham considered an artist's first death, and for sure the most painful one, so she decided to travel all the way to the small town of Cardigan, Wales, to join its four thousand residents."

[blacksapphicguide]

Cleo x Imani It Had To Be You (short film)

[biandlesbianliterature]

June always brings a deluge of recommendations of LGBTQ books, but often this coverage is very white. In this list, I want to highlight some of the Black authors writing swoonworthy adult F/F romance novels.

Reading Black Joy: 27 F/F Romances by Black Authors

[blacksapphhicmaddonna]

I've decided I'm having a Black Sapphic Summer.

Use the tag when you post any fics/fan art etc. featuring Black Sapphics!!!!

turn on some tracy chapman and let's WRITEEEE.

[gennsoup]

They had a lot of love to give. But I needed love plus understanding. They run a little short of that.

Alice Walker, The Color Purple

[that-butch-archivist]

"Fire" by Jennie Sullivan, 1988

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

[lovedpoetical-ly]

visiting the Emily Dickinson Museuem is at the top of my bucket list.

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

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[sterenheart]

This fic is now complete!! 15 chapters and 77,821 words… enjoy!!

[gigantomachylesbian]

Guys. I did not know before now that writing could be painfully millennial in a full prose book but the pho*nix ke*per has proven me wrong and I have to complain about it in the tags