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[Alt text: Page reads: On February 14, 1974, Meg and I celebrated Valentine’s Day. I had asked her what she wanted her gift to be and she told me she wanted a new apron. And that’s what she got. Then she sat me down in the living room and played her gift to me: “Valentine Song.” It was once only dining and dancing Evening kisses, morning smiles And then you said, “Let’s go off together Alone for a while” And I loved you at first for your wicked eyes And the laughter that loosens your bones And your soft curls And the passions that I’ve never known . . . . . . . . . . . Yes, we bargained for doubtful tomorrows But our past grows richer each day And more and more, I cannot see me going away With happiness here for our taking Resting easy, feeling strong As I delight in the life that we’re making I sing you this valentine song.]

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 Andrenne is a shameless fantasy/sci-fi reader. She loves to pet other people’s dogs and can’t wait to have her own. When she’s not plotting a dog heist she’s gaming or adventuring.

Irreverent and poetic, “Her” by Cherry Muhanji is a daring novel that explores relationships among Black women of different generations and places who, above all, teach each other how to survive. You can purchase a copy from our distributors @spdbooks at 20% off w/code FETCH for the month of August! • www.spdbooks.org/On-sale.aspx • #her #cherrymuhanji #detroit #pocwriters #backtoschool #quote #auntlutebooks

Set mostly in China during and after the Cultural Revolution, Geling Yan presents us with unforgettable characters who have all, in one way or another, left home. Taking as her territory the disorienting space between home and away, Yan charts the unexpected transformation of her characters as they find themselves thrust into unlikely intimacy with strangers who embody different histories and different desires. • www.auntlute.com/white-snake • #GelingYan #WhiteSnake #novella #culturalrevolution #shortstory #queerlit #chineseamerican #literature

¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants  by Juliana Delgado Lopera is the winner of a Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Anthology! When you buy from SPD Books (our wonderful distributor), Lammy Award winning titles are 20% off for the next two weeks! Visit https://bit.ly/2tpHHMM and use the code LAMMY for a 20% off when you order ¡Cuéntamelo!

“I was so stunned with the layered language and powerful storytelling in “flesh to bone”. The stories completely uprooted and expanded my idea of what can be possible through writing and interpretations of ancestral knowledge and how myth is woven throughout our daily life and understandings of self. The book made me hungry for the myths of my own ancestors, and prompted me to reflect on how myth is continuously present, and projected over my relationship to my people and my land as an Indigenous person.” • 2 MORE DAYS! Support publications such as “flesh to bone” reach print by donating this Give OUT Day to Aunt Lute. Link in bio 🙌🏽 • #fleshtobone #giveoutday #queerlit #poetry #chicanxpoetry

“Leela Fernandes’ Transforming Feminist Practice Gabe me the possibility of feminism as an embodied experience of living differently and mindfully instead of an academic exercise sequestered in an ivory tower. Her reclamation’s of non-hierarchical, non-weaponized spirituality that centers empathy and relationality and her calls for a feminist collective revolution of values were (and are) a powerful antidote in the defensive cynicism I developed as protection in the face of the otherwise-overwhelming prospect of enacting change.” • 3 days left... but you don’t have to wait. Go ahead and visit the link in our bio to schedule a donation if you would like to see more transformative titles like this one published #queerlit #giveoutday #feministtheory

Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera, recaps our understanding of what a border is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit. Consider supporting this and future publications by queer women of color by donating on Give OUT Day: giveoutday.org/c/GO/a/auntlute • Everyone who donates to us on Give OUT Day will be entered in a special raffle as a thank-you from us to you. You could win a copy of one of our recent releases: ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants, Good Girls Marry Doctors, or a gift set of the Borderlands/La Frontera book +limited edition mug! • #auntlutebooks #latinxauthors #chicanxauthors #borderlands

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This is a story about Detroit in the late fifties/early sixties and the Black Women and men who came North to work the lines of the Ford Motor plant. It’s a story about John R. Street, the Harlem of Detroit, where they spent their nights trying to forget their days—at the Frolic and Flame Showbars, playing Mr. Ben’s numbers, sitting on stoops reminiscing about the days of their youth in the South. Irreverent and poetic, this dating novel explores relationships among Black women of different generations and places who, above all, reach each other how to survive—not on men or money but on the courage to move a long ways in tight spaces. Find out more about “Her” by Cherry Muhanji on our website: auntlute.com/her #1950sdetroit #detroit #africanamericanlit #auntlutebooks #cherry muhanji

🏵 🏵 🏵 Front Line Feminism is a collection of over 80 essays from two decades of news, analysis, interviews, reviews, and letters from one of the nation's oldest and largest women's newspapers, Sojourner: The Women's Forum. These articles are a microcosm of the lively and committed debates around some of the key issues of second-wave feminism: identity politics, economic injustice, politics of the family, reproductive freedom, women's health, sex and sexuality, violence against women, and building alliances. This anthology is a must for everyone interested in a wide-ranging overview of the contemporary U.S. feminist movement and an in-depth analysis of the issues. 🏵 🏵 🏵 Find Front Line Feminism for purchase here: https://www.auntlute.com/frontline-feminism • • • • #frontlinefeminism #angeladavis #auntlutebooks #blackhistorymonth #essays#nonfiction #identitypolitics #socialjustice

How does it feel to be a black woman in South Africa? Published in 1985, "Call Me Woman" details life during the past 50 years in South Africa. Like millions of black South Africans made strangers in the land of their birth, Ellen Kuzwayo has lost a great deal in her lifetime: the farm in the Orange Free State which had belonged to her family for nearly a hundred years; her hopes for a full and peaceful life for her children; even her own freedom, when, at the age of 63, she found herself detained under the so-called Terrorism Act for an offence never specified. But she has not lost her courage. • 🔖🔖🔖 Small Press Distribution is running a sale for Black History Month. Get 20% off your copy of "Call Me Woman" today: www.auntlute.com/call-me-woman 🔖🔖🔖 • • • • #ellenkuzwayo #southafricanlit #autobiography #auntlutebooks #quotes #blackhistorymonth

Indiana Redpaint, traded by her father for a desperately sought rodeo entry fee, is forced to flee her family in Oklahoma to be raised by her grandparents in North Carolina. A generation later her daughter Manna, whose life is deeply marked by her mother's losses, flees from her own tragic past to Gallup, New Mexico, where she finds wholeness and healing in unexpected places and people. Read more about the book here: https://www.auntlute.com/the-way-we-make-sense • • • • #dawnkarimapettigrew #poetry #nativeamericanlit #auntlutebooks #pocwriters