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STEN • THE CHARIOT

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

girl, woman, other by bernadine evaristo

young adult:

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:

honey girl by morgan rogers

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:

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!

*reluctant sigh*

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Closest match: Nemesignis banyulensis genome assembly, chromosome: 11 Common name: Orange Godiva

Decided to join in with everyone and do a little “home culture miku” even though I don’t have twitter because this trend is honestly the loveliest thing in the world and seeing everyone’s contributions making my heart smile 👍

Bonus Romani Miku with who I think is already Romani Miku

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Daisy growing out her hair in the few months after the buried. She’d always kept it short before, for practicality. Less likely to get in the way, can’t be used against her by someone yanking it, etc. But when the hunt isn’t with her, she decides to stop caring about it. Lets it grow for the first time in decades.

Daisy who walks in to Melanie painting her nails in the break room. Melanie is still a bit unnerved by her hovering and just tells her to sit down, stop lurking in the corner. Daisy ends up with her nails painted- it’s a stupidly bright blue that she would have rejected before. Bright colors didn’t work well when you needed to lay low. But she keeps finding herself looking at them, and when it all but chips away into specks, she decides to get her own

Daisy who, when her now longer hair is getting all in her face and is about to chop it all off again out of annoyance, is sat down by Melanie, who is rolling her eyes as she shows her how to keep it back with hairspray, and throws some hair ties at her

Daisy who sees Melanie dying her hair in the archive bathroom and decides why the hell not when Melanie holds up the jar of dye in question. Basira has to do a double-take when she sees her after a week away

Daisy who still finds skirts entirely impractical, but ends up wearing them more often. If anything, she reasons, the extra fabric will hinder her, and might buy the others a couple extra seconds to run if she loses herself again. Rationalizing all of these other things similarly. Brighter colors will let the others spot her better. The hair can be used against her if she has them pinned. And if she finds herself idly swishing her hips to watch how the fabric sways, turning a bit faster so it twirls, no one needs to know

Daisy who, in those few months, finds a bit of herself in the impracticality of femininity that the Hunt would never have let her explore

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