SexualityBooks

Through intimate testimony from African and diasporic women, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah replaces narratives of sexual danger and victimhood with a plural archive of desire, pleasure, freedom, and healing.

Adrienne Rich's groundbreaking 1980 essay challenges the assumption that heterosexuality is natural or innate, arguing that it is a political institution that has been imposed upon women and that a 'lesbian continuum' offers a space for female resistance and solidarity.