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Happy Pride! Enjoy this book rec list of fiction books with LGBTQ+ and Black representation, written by Black authors! Goodreads and Bookshop.org links and text version of the list below the cut.

Some of these books involve some pretty heavy content, be careful to check content warnings!

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sometimes i just want to laugh at how absurd everything is. like, jeff bezos has enough money to literally end the war in yemen. he could literally end it. nearly any celebrity in the world has the money to fix the flint water crisis. like there is a handful of rich people who, if they just put their money where their fucking mouths were, could solve so many problems. but they dont!!! they just buy another house, or a car, or a company where they don’t pay their workers fair wages so they can get richer. it’s just!!!!!!! sometimes i want to laugh bc it’s so absurd and this is why we say eat the rich.

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favorite poems about greek myth?

wislawa szymborska, “cassandra” (x)

seamus heaney, “mycenae nightwatch” (x)

annie finch, “chain of women” (x)

adam zagajewski, “persephone goes underground again” (x)

louise glück, “persephone the wanderer” (x) and “the empty glass” (x)

kathleen raine, “medea” (x)

elizabeth ballou, “ariadne and the minotaur” (x)

p.k. page, “this heavy craft” (x)

peter kline, “minotaur” (x)

alfred lord tennyson, “demeter and persephone” (x)

ted hughes, “prometheus on his crag” (x)

margaret atwood, “orpheus (1)” (x), “orpheus (2)” (x), “eurydice” (x) and “siren song” (x)

H.D., “sea-heroes” (x), “delphi” (x), “eurydice” (x), “helen” (x), “thetis” (x), “leda” (x), “hermonax” (x), “apollo at delphi” (x), pallinode, and eidolon

jack conway, “the agamemnon rag” (x)

marina tsvetaeva, “praise to aphrodite” and “the sibyl” and “eurydice to orpheus” (x)

blas falconer, “to orpheus” (x)

jorge luis borges, “to the one who is reading me” (x) and “oedipus and the riddle” (x)

sappho, “hymn to aphrodite” (x) and fragment 102, “blame aphrodite” (x)

william carlos williams, “landscape with the fall of icarus” (x)

muriel rukeyser, “waiting for icarus” (x)

josé emilio pacheco, “new sisyphus” (x)

anne sexton, “to a friend whose work has come to triumph” (x)

edna st. vincent mallay, “daphne” (x)

shakespeare, venus and adonis and “orpheus” (x)

christopher marlowe, “hero and leander”

derek walcott, omeros and “sea grapes” (x) and “europa” (x)

denise levertov, “hymn to eros” (x)

judy grahn, “paris and helen” (x)

alice oswald, memorial

dorothy parker, “penelope” (x)

anne carson, autobiography of red

yusef komunyakaa, “infidelity” (x)

rainer maria rilke, “orpheus. eurydice. hermes.” (x)

gregory orr, “betrayal/hades, eurydice, orpheus” (x)

eginardus

Your hands are cold.

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She Hid - Sabine Beyerle , 2019

German, b,1975-

Oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm.

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I always get so fucking mad when I remember that it’s actually a 16-year-old Algerian girl who influenced BOTH Picasso and Matisse. and. No one gives a rat’s ass about her work which was very focused on women and nature. History -or people dare I say- didn’t bother to remember her name because she was a young Algerian woman and no one cares about Maghrebi/Arab women. unlike P*casso & M*tisse who both became legends, almost gods both during their lives and after their deaths, no one knows her.

Her name was Baya Mahieddine.

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i hope that more people know about her now, especially seeing as OP literally linked to an article about a Baya Mahieddine exhibition in 2018.

It is remarkable that she had such a strong practise and had great influence at 16. Despite various disruptions that caused her to stop painting, she returned to her practise from the 60s until the end of her life.

It was within her work that Baya found freedom. The world she painted, after all, is one where women assert their individuality and are free from the men who attempt to brand them with labels, keep them inside the home, or hold them back in any way. “If I change my paintings, I will no longer be Baya,” the artist said in 1991, after her husband died and she’d returned to painting. “When I paint, I am happy and I am in another world.”

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