Progress Pride Flag by Daniel Quasar (quasar.digital LLC)
This year’s Pride Month post is a selection of books, art, poetry, and podcasts from Black LGBTQ+ creators. We are enthusiastically dedicated to celebrating, highlighting, supporting, and hearing these marginalized voices not only during the month of June, but throughout the year.
The fight for LGBTQ+ rights have long been led by the efforts and sacrifices of Black trans and queer communities. The LGBTQ+ movement that benefits all of us would not be what it is today without their continued mobilization toward progress.
The Progress Pride Flag, designed by Daniel Quasar, was and will continue to be featured as a reminder that our rainbow includes every color, always.
While borrowing and ordering physical materials from the MIT Libraries is currently not possible, you can connect to your local library digitally and search for any of these titles in e-format on the Libby App or libbyapp.com.
Books
Nonfiction
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches | Audre Lorde
https://bookshop.org/books/sister-outsider-essays-and-speeches-9780143134442/9781580911863
All Boys Aren’t Blue | George M. Johnson
https://bookshop.org/books/all-boys-aren-t-blue-a-memoir-manifesto/9780374312718
How We Fight for Our Lives | Saeed Jones
https://bookshop.org/books/how-we-fight-for-our-lives-a-memoir/9781501132735
Fiction
Felix Ever After | Kacen Callender
https://bookshop.org/books/felix-ever-after/9780062820259
Full Disclosure | Camryn Garrett
https://bookshop.org/books/full-disclosure-9781984829955/9781984829955
You Should See Me in a Crown | Leah Johnson
https://bookshop.org/books/you-should-see-me-in-a-crown/9781338503265
Odd One Out | Nic Stone
https://bookshop.org/books/odd-one-out-9781101939536/9781101939567
How to be Remy Cameron | Julian Winters
https://bookshop.org/books/how-to-be-remy-cameron/9781945053801
The Black Flamingo | Dean Atta
https://bookshop.org/books/the-black-flamingo/9780062990297
Let’s Talk About Love | Claire Kann
https://bookshop.org/books/let-s-talk-about-love/9781250294500
By Any Means Necessary | Candice Montgomery
https://bookshop.org/books/by-any-means-necessary-9781624147999/9781624147999
Little & Lion | Brandy Colbert
https://bookshop.org/books/little-lion/9780316349017
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them | Junauda Petrus
https://bookshop.org/books/the-stars-and-the-blackness-between-them/9780525555483
Freshwater | Akwaeke Emezi
https://bookshop.org/books/freshwater-9781684410408/9780802128997
Sci-Fi and Fantasy
The Sound of Stars | Alechia Dow
https://bookshop.org/books/the-sound-of-stars-original/9781335911551
PET | Akwaeke Emezi
https://bookshop.org/books/pet-9780525647072/9780525647072
An Unkindness of Ghosts | Rivers Solomon
https://bookshop.org/books/an-unkindness-of-ghosts/9781617755880
A Blade So Black | LL McKinney
https://bookshop.org/books/a-blade-so-black/9781250211668
Contact High | Josh Eckert and James F. Wright
https://gumroad.com/l/Contact-High
Poetry
Don’t Call Us Dead | Danez Smith
https://bookshop.org/books/don-t-call-us-dead-poems/9781555977856
Build Yourself a Boat |Camonghne Felix
https://bookshop.org/books/build-yourself-a-boat/9781608466115
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
https://bookshop.org/books/the-collected-poems-of-audre-lorde/9780393319729
Artists, Cartoonists, and Creatives
Ashanti Fortson ashantifortson.com
Bex Glendining lgions.com
Buttercup https://linktr.ee/btrcp
Céli https://twitter.com/pianta_
Deandra Cornelius (Zeroworks) zerodraws.com
Gisele Sneezer https://www.startripcomic.com/
Giulia Estrela linktr.ee/estreleta
Linnea https://twitter.com/god_lings
Mildred Louis artofmlouis.com
Taneka Stotts https://tanekastotts.com/
Tiana Conyers linktr.ee/tianaconyersart
Whit Taylor https://www.whittaylorcomics.com/
For more incredible Black LGBTQ+ artists, explore the #drawingwhileblack tag on twitter
Spoken Word Poetry
“Finding a Black Queer Woman Love” | Porsha Olayiwola
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2vsKDPuCzg
“Black Dyke Girl from the Projects (To House)” | Oompa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlBEbkc4000
“Blaqueer” | Nayo Jones
https://youtu.be/zLwj9cWT_jU
“A Gay Poem” | Keith Jarrett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF-TM3DZtuo
TED Presentation | Lee Mokobe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8DwxjDrNNM
“Boy of Tragedy” | Donté Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq8vd83Dv8s
“When a Boy Tells You He Loves You” | Edwin Bodney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq1l-19pwS4
Podcasts
Still Processing | Jenna Wortham + Wesley Morris
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/becoming/id1151436460?i=1000429854122
Never Before | Janet Mock
https://janetmock.com/podcast/
Hoodrat to Headwrap | Ericka Hart + Ebony Donnley
https://soundcloud.com/user-501838661
Food 4 Thot | Dennis Norris II + Fran Tirado + Tommy Pico + Joseph Osmundson
https://food4thotpodcast.com/
The Read | Kid Fury + Crissle
http://thisistheread.com/
Black Girl Dangerous Podcast | Raquel Willis
https://soundcloud.com/user-437512590
Pod Save the People | DeRay Mckesson
https://crooked.com/podcast-series/pod-save-the-people/
Documentary
Paris is Burning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf6Cn2y2xEc
Donate to Black Led LGBTQ+ Organizations
The Okra Project theokraproject.com
SNaPCo snap4freedom.org
Black AIDS Institute blackaids.org
Trans Cultural District transgenderdistrictsf.com
LGBTQ+ Freedom Fund Lgbtqfund.org
House of GG Houseofgg.org
Trans Justice Funding Project Transjusticefundingproject.org
Youth Breakout youthbreak.org
