#Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene

[the-bi-library]

Here is the part two of my bisexual BIPOC books posts!

Part 1 here

Books listed:

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea The Relic Spell: Book 1 of the Phyrian War Chronicles by Jimena I. Novaro The Warlock Snare by Jimena I. Novaro Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert The Aurora Circus by Viano Oniomoh Rescues and the Rhyssa by T. S. Porter Far Sector by N. K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell Xeni by Rebekah Weatherspoon Flip the Script by Lyla Lee A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson Shatterproof by Xen Sanders The Fall of Whit Rivera by Crystal Maldonado Scavenge the Stars by Tara Sim Zara Hossain Is Here by Sabina Khan When Tara Met Farah by Tara Pammi Royally Yours by Everly James For Sizakele by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene More To Love by Georgina Kiersten False Hearts by Laura Lam Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany Tim Te Maro and the Subterranean Heartsick Blues by H. S. Valley Ace of Shades by Amanda Foody Becoming Dinah by Kit de Waal Caught in a Bad Fauxmance by Elle Gonzalez Rose The Black Veins by Ashia Monet Hearton by Amy Jo Cousins

[queerafricans]

Books about LGBTQ Africans

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Queer Nigerian MCs Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta She Called Me Woman ed. by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, and Aisha Salau When We Speak of Nothing by Olumide Popoola For Sizakele by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene

[ginnyweaslays]

65 LGBT Books by Black Authors

In honor of Pride Month obviously, here’s my next list! Please continue to add authors and books to this list! 

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Another Country by James Baldwin

Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone by James Baldwin

Invisible Life by E. Lynn Harris

Just as I am (Invisible Life #2) by E. Lynn Harris

I Say a Little Prayer by E. Lynn Harris

Hood Witch by Faylita Hicks

You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett

By Any Means Necessary by Candice Montgomery

A Dream so Dark by LL McKinney

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus

Build Yourself a Boat by Camonghne Felix

Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert

Skin Deep Magic by Craig Laurance Gidney

The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie

Juniper Leaves by Jaz Joyner

Queer Africa - Selected Stories

The Yellow Brownstone by Lisa K. Stephenson

Freedom in This Village by E. Lynn Harris

Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction by Devon W. Carbado

In Case You Forgot by Frederick Smith and Chaz Lamar

Mogul by Terrance Dean

Potomac University Series by Rashid Darden

The Secrets of Eden by Brandon Goode

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann

Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces by Michelle Sewell

Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell

Black Lesbian in White America by Anita Cornwell**

If We Have to Take Tomorrow by Frank Leon, White Roberts, and Marvin K.

Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men edited by Essex Hemphill

In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology by Joseph Beam

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Real Life by Brandon Taylor

Here for It by R. Eric Thomas

Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson

Black Deutschland by Darryl Pinckney

A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan

Crossfire: A Litany for Survival by Staceyann Chin

The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir by Staceyann Chin

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde

Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith

Lives of Great Men by Chike Frankie Edozien

Burnt Men by Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun**

She Called Me Woman edited by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, and Rafeeat Aliyu

B-Side and Other Misheard Lyrics by L.M. Bennett

For Sizakele by Yvonne “Fly” Onakeme Etaghene

Black Power Barbie Volume 1: Love Lives of Heroes by Shay Youngblood

Loving Her by Ann Allen Shockley

No Telephone to Heaven by Michelle Cliff

Something Better than Home by Leona Beasley

Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Yabo by Alexis De Veaux

Fragments that Remain by Steven Corbin

Vanishing Rooms by Melvin Dixon

Blackbird by Larry Duplechan

B-Boy Blues Series by James Earl Hardy

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

**I could not find links to buy both of these books, so if anyone is able to please add them to the post!

[yaworldchallenge]

Bisexual YA Books around the world

It's Bisexual Visibility Month!! 💗💜💙 So I thought I would put together some Bi rep books that take place in, or are inspired by, non-anglo-US cultures. I'm going by reviews and labels since I have not read any of these yet! Please reblog and feel free to add more titles!

Ida by Alison Evans (🇦🇺Australia) Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar (🇧🇩🇬🇧 Bengali-British) The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson (🇧🇷Brazil) Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (🇨🇳China) Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee (🇨🇳🇻🇳Chinese-Vietnamese) All the Invisible Things by Orlagh Collins (🇬🇧England) The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (🇪🇺 Europe) Last Night in Nuuk by Niviao Korneliussen (🇬🇱 Greenland)* Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova (🇺🇸Latinx-American) Kynship by Daniel Heath Justice (🌎Native American)* Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (🇳🇱Netherlands) For Sizakele by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene (🇳🇬🇨🇲Nigeria / Cameroon)* Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley (🇲🇽Mexico) Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust (🇮🇷Persia) Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins (🇬🇧Scotland) Flip the Script by Lyla Lee (🇰🇷 South Korea)

* adult/NA/literary book, not quite YA

[ya-world-challenge]

Bisexual YA Books around the world

It's Bisexual Visibility Month!! 💗💜💙 So I thought I would put together some Bi rep books that take place in, or are inspired by, non-anglo-US cultures. I'm going by reviews and labels since I have not read any of these yet! Please reblog and feel free to add more titles!

Ida by Alison Evans (🇦🇺Australia) Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar (🇧🇩🇬🇧 Bengali-British) The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson (🇧🇷Brazil) Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (🇨🇳China) Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee (🇨🇳🇻🇳Chinese-Vietnamese) All the Invisible Things by Orlagh Collins (🇬🇧England) The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (🇪🇺 Europe) Last Night in Nuuk by Niviao Korneliussen (🇬🇱 Greenland)* Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova (🇺🇸Latinx-American) Kynship by Daniel Heath Justice (🌎Native American)* Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (🇳🇱Netherlands) For Sizakele by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene (🇳🇬🇨🇲Nigeria / Cameroon)* Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley (🇲🇽Mexico) Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust (🇮🇷Persia) Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins (🇬🇧Scotland) Flip the Script by Lyla Lee (🇰🇷 South Korea)

* adult/NA/literary book, not quite YA

[biandlesbianliterature]

Lesbrary Link Round Up: April 26 - May 9

This is the Lesbrary bi-weekly feature where we take a look at all the lesbian and bi women book news and reviews happening on the rest of the internet!

[image description:a collage of 16 covers of books listed below, with the text LESBRARY LINKS: Lesbian & Bi Books, April 26 - May 9]

[image description: the covers of Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert, Princeless: Raven The Pirate Princess Book 1, 24/7 by Yolanda Wallace, It's Not Like It's a Secret by Misa Sugiura, and Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore.]

Autostraddle posted 8 Action/Adventure Books with Queer Women Main Characters and 7 Super Queer Cookbooks For Your Super Queer Kitchen!

Book Riot posted 3 On A YA Theme: Queer Girls of Color in YA Lit Written by Authors of Color.

Cats and Paperbacks posted F/F and Romancelandia.

Lambda Literary posted New in May: Casey Plett, Tommy Pico, Nicola Griffith, Stephen McCauley, and North Morgan.

[image description: the covers of Ship It by Britta Lundin, Cinnamon Blade by Shira Glassman, Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring-Blake, Love & Other Carnivorous Plants by Florence Gonsalves, and The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde]

LGBTQ Reads posted New Releases: May 2018.

Women and Words updated their New Releases & Coming Up page.

"New Poetry by Queer Indigenous Women" was posted at Literary Hub.

"The Lesbian Archive: Preserving A Herstory They Tried to Erase" was posted at AfterEllen.

"'Under The Gaydar' YA Novels Are Meant For Teens Who Can't Be Open About Their Sexuality — And They're Just As Necessary As Ever" was posted at Bustle.

[image description: the covers of Lady In Waiting by Jea Hawkins, The Fletcher by K. Aten, My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris, For Sizakele by Yvonne “Fly” Onakeme Etaghene, and When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri]

The Fletcher by K. Aten was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake was reviewed at Green Tea & Paperbacks.

For Sizakele by Yvonne “Fly” Onakeme Etaghene was reviewed at Black Lesbian Literary Collective.

My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

Lady In Waiting by Jea Hawkins was reviewed at Sweet'n Our Ink.

Postcards from the Canyon by Lisa Gitlin was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri was reviewed at Autostraddle.

If you like what we do at the Lesbrary and Bi & Les Lit, support us on Patreon at $2 or more a month and be entered to win a queer women book every month!

[femslashrevolution]

I Am Femslash by shiraglassman

This post is part of Femslash Revolution’s I Am Femslash series, sharing voices of F/F creators from all walks of life. The views represented within are those of the author only.

Hi! I’m Shira, and like many of you, I grew up frustrated at the lack of happy romances between women in most genres of literature. Come to find out, though, that these books do exist–they’re just hard to find because marginalization keeps them on the fringes of publishing, in independent presses and self-publishing (although things are getting better with books like The Abyss Surrounds Us and Of Fire and Stars coming from mainstream houses.)

I’ve done my best to try to signal boost the f/f books I’ve enjoyed recently, and that’s what I’m going to do in today’s post. This time, I’ll focus on books that don’t seem to be on the radar of sapphic Tumblr. We make it out of these books alive and paired up. Please check all reviews for TW’s.

Warming Trend by Karin Kallmaker - a suspense novel set in the world of glacier science. An academic scandal broke Ani’s heart and drove her away from Alaska and her partner, all the way to Florida. The plot involves putting everything right again with a cast of at least four lesbians.  Here’s a link to my review.

For Sizakele by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene - love triangle between three Black women. The main character, a bi college student named Taylor, is Nigerian-American and bonds with a new friend from Cameroon over their shared Africanness. Meanwhile, her relationship with her established girlfriend frays at the edges. My review.

A Wartime Love by Shiralyn Lee - well-researched, PG-rated novel about two women falling in love during Germany’s attack on the UK in WII. They survive the bombings and spend their lives together.  My review, which contains the line “I’m sure there are a bazillion ‘what we endured’ books like this, but this one has HAPPY LESBIANS so it’s special and different.”

Carolyn for Christmas by Lucy Carey - they were friends as youngsters but a misunderstanding drove them apart. Now they’re competing over who gets to sing the Christmas solo in church. PG-rated and set in Ireland; here’s my review.

Poppy Jenkins by Clare Ashton - set in a contemporary Welsh village, this one reminds me of what canonically f/f Anne of Green Gables would look like. The heroine is an out lesbian beloved by her neighbors; the love interest, who left town years ago and is back now, rubs them the wrong way. This one has been getting a lot of attention in the published f/f fiction world but apart from @fuckyeahlesbianliterature I don’t usually see people bring it up on Tumblr so I figured I’d signal boost.

And of course, no post on underappreciated f/f novels by me would be complete without a mention of Heather Rose Jones’s Alpennia books. When you watch costume dramas based on Jane Austen books or historical events, do some of you yearn for the girls to kiss each other and to pursue academic and business interests and even magic? Check out Daughter of Mystery, The Mystic Marriage, and Mother of Souls (links are to my reviews.) Set in early 19th century central Europe, each book adds new lesbians, bi women, and ace women, many of whom are friends with each other or form lifelong romantic partnerships. The books are chock full of political intrigue and personal drama.

If none of these appeal to you, there are plenty of other books like them out there. One good way to find them is to check the finalists (and winners) of the Golden Crown Literary Society each year. If high prices get in the way, consider finding your local library’s 'suggest item’ page and requesting them, or contacting the author or publishing house to ask if they might be willing to send you a review copy of the eBook (and then, of course, please review it!)

About Shira:

Shira Glassman is a bi violinist (biolinist?…) living in north central Florida. She is best known for her Mangoverse series, fluffy fairy tales centered on queer Jewish women; some of these novels have shortlisted in the Golden Crown Literary Society Awards and the Bi Book Awards. The most recent of these is The Olive Conspiracy, in which the series’ lesbian queen MC must save her country from agricultural sabotage that may or may not have been the work of the straight foreign princess she crushed on as a teenager. Shira has also written a number of short stories.

[natbrut]

Talia Lavin on Queer Art and Self-Expression You Should Know About

(2) Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene

In her own words, Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene was born with “a mouth full of dynamite and sugarcane.” In poems like ���Nigerian Dyke Holy Text,” Etaghene expresses each part of her intersectional identity with flawless, fearless aplomb. Her videos explode off the screen and will make you rethink everything you think you know about spoken-word performances. In her work, Etaghene challenges orthodoxies from colonialism to homophobia with flair and style. Her latest book, For Sizakele, explores love, relationships, intimate partner violence and queer identities among people of color.

-Poet Talia Lavin

Learn more about Nat. Brut!

[orquideanoire]

Nigerian Dyke Realness | YVONNE FLY ONAKEME ETAGHENE 

"Oakland Based. New York Gully. Nigerian Soul. Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene is an Ijaw and Urhobo Nigerian dyke performance activist, poet, dancer, essayist, playwright, actress, video artist and mixed-media visual artist who was born with a mouth full of dynamite and sugarcane. Etaghene engages a radical vulnerability and candor in her artwork and uses storytelling to build authentic human connection through passionate artistic expression. Etaghene has rocked stages and melted microphones internationally. She was interviewed by and was a Contributing Writer to None on Record: Stories of Queer Africa, a digital media project that collects the stories of LGBT Africans from the African Continent and the Diaspora. She has toured nationally with both of her one-woman shows, Volcano’s Birthright{s} and GUAVA.

Etaghene is a mixed-media visual artist who has produced four solo art exhibitions. In May 2012, Etaghene founded Sugarcane, an LGBTQ Of Color writing workshop based in the principles of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People. She designed an eight-week curriculum and syllabus for Sugarcane that centers LGBTQ of color, immigrant and immigrant-descendant literary and performative voices. She is a cook and organizer with the People’s Kitchen, a sliding-scale, local, organic, community restaurant project that engages, builds and nourishes community through shared-food events and cultural programming. Etaghene is the founder of Kitchen Poems, where she cooks Nigerian food, African diasporic foods and creates culinary remixes that incorporates Nigerian flavors and cooking aesthetics.

Etaghene has written and directed 2 poem videos (“The First Time” [2010] and “i deserve somebody” [2011]) that marry film, poetry and music. Etaghene has self-published 3 chapbooks of poetry: afrocrown: fierce poetry (2000), write or die (2004) and tongue twisted transcontinental sista (2006.) She independently released an album of poetry and music entitled liberty avenue, nigeria, usa (2004.) She has shared stages with Amina Baraka, Bonfire Madigan, Sharon Bridgforth, Staceyann Chin, Climbing PoeTree, Invincible, Las Krudas, DJ Kuttin Kandi, Lenelle Moïse, DJ Moni, Queen GodIs, Ongina Ryan, Hanifah Walidah, d’bi young & innumerable other brilliant magic-makers. Her second album of poetry, Nigerian Dyke Realness, drops in 2014.

Etaghene’s first novel, For Sizakele, which addresses Queer African love, identity and inter-partner violence, will be released June 20, 2014."

[gravelandhoney-blog]

butterfly wings

when you touch me, my bones sing my eyelids turn to butterfly wings, our gazes turn the space between us into cat’s cradle mazes gazes dancing over each other’s bodies, our looks intertwined choreograph dance with nothing moving but eyes my blood hums for you buzzes and runs to you, whenever you’re in the room my breath and heartbeat race and slow, your breath breeze against my neck making goosebumps that compose masterpieces against my skin in your honor as if skin: canvas goosebumps: acrylics/oils/watercolors, the color of your eyes makes my hips move .slight. poems unfolding always unfolding from my tongue, just looking at you my words cascade into each other to talk about you to you the crumpled up pieces of paper inside me with half-written poems on them .unfolded. so you read all the things I don’t know how to say when you look at me my spine curves towards you like seed climbing through soil to sun, my blood runs in the direction of you every part of me murmurs your name .soft. your smile is my favorite thing you make me shy and I am not shy, I lick lips hungry for you fed by you wrapped up in you this is how you do me. ~yvonne fly onakeme etaghene

[ijiphotography]

poetic blues, yvonne fly onakeme etaghene

poet & writer of For Sizakele

http://myloveisaverb.com

[lgbtqreads]

I’m looking for wlw books with a black protagonist?

First off I have to mention a great site dedicated to this, which is Sistahs on the Shelf. But also, here you go:

In MG right now, there’s just Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender and The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson, but there are two coming up: Meow or Never by Jazz Taylor and In the Key of Us by Mariama Lockington.

In YA, check out:

This is What it Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron 

You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson (who also has another one coming next year called Rise to the Sun)

37 Things I Love (In No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon 

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus

In Adult, please please put Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers on your TBR, or even better, preorder it: https://bookshop.org/books/honey-girl-9780778311027/9780778311027?aid=2228

But also check out:

Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole  (who also has another coming next year called How to Find a Princess)

Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Things Hoped For by Chencia C. Higgins

Small Town Secrets by Katrina Jackson

For Sizakele by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene

Sugar & Ice by Brooklyn Wallace 

Tailor-Made by Yolanda Wallace

Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon

A Drop in the Ocean by Nikki Winter

The Winter Triangle by Nikki Woolfolk

Bliss by Fiona Zedde

Rise of the Rain Queen by Fiona Zedde

Femme Like Her by Fiona Zedde (coming in December)

[processedlives]

Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene Nigerian Dyke Holy Text

[eatmangoesnekkid]

...decolonize your whole body. -Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene

[thewrathofkwan]

Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene is an Ijaw and Urhobo Nigerian dyke performance activist, poet, dancer, writer, actress and video artist who was born with a mouth full of dynamite and sugarcane. Etaghene is a mixed-media visual artist who has produced four solo art exhibitions. She uses her poetry to chisel a verbal sculpture of her soul for listeners while addressing social and political issues. (via Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene’s Nigerian Dyke Holy Text | Boothism)

New Queer Black takes place July 6th at Betti Ono Gallery in Downtown Oakland. This edition of Black Futurists Speaks is in conjunction with BeastCrawl, Oakland’s annual literary  barcrawl.

 Black Futurists Speak, is a quarterly literary, technology and live arts event featuring some of the most exciting Black artists working in the Bay Area and beyond.