The days of good looks Book

	Of Althea and Flaxie	3
	Ruby the runaway	6
	Gail	11
	The johnny cake	13
	Cantaloupe	19
	If you black get back	22
	Lesbianism : an act of resistance	25
	Black, brave, and woman, too	43
	The failure to transform : homophobia in the black community	61
	New notes on lesbianism	81
	14th Street was gutted	91
	The woman who raised me	92
	I come to the city	93
	No more encomiums	94
	Vicki and Daphne	97
	Intimacy on luxury	101
	Nothing	102
	The change	104
	We are everywhere	106
	Since my lover left	107
	Living as a lesbian underground : a futuristic fantasy	108
	An exile I have loved	112
	Living as a lesbian on the make	113
	Sexual preference	114
	Kittatinny	115
	Living as a lesbian at 35	117
	The space in me where Baldwin lives	119
	Silence and invisibility : costly metaphors	123
	Saying the least said, telling the least told : the voices of black lesbian writers	133
	Knowing the danger and going there anyway	145
	... she still wrote out the word Kotex on a torn piece of paper wrapped up in a dollar bill	155
	Party pants	191
	Bulletin	193
	Stuck	195
	Sisters part	198
	Ella takes up the slack	200
	Kitchen mechanics sequence	202
	Frances Michael	205
	Rabbit	207
	High school	215
	No place	219
	The homoerotic other	221
	The everyday life of black lesbian sexuality	225
	Two rich and rounding experiences	237
	Living the texts out : lesbians and the uses of black women's traditions	247
	A great angel	275
	Living as a lesbian underground, ii	276
	Great Garbo	280
	Movement	281
	Passing	289
	Buttons	290
	Interlude	291
	Rondeau	292
	Remember the voyage	293
	Dykes are hard	294
	Living as a lesbian at 45	295
	Najeeb	297
	Elegy	298
	An old woman muses from her basement	299
	A house of difference : Audre Lorde's legacy to lesbian and gay writers	301
	Transferences and confluences : the impact of the black arts movement on the literacies of black lesbian feminism	319
	Living as a lesbian underground fin de siecle	361
	Bald woman	362
	Billie Holliday	363
	Please read	364
	James Dean longing	365
	Urban epitaphs after 9/11/01	367
	Dreams of South Africa	368
	A sister's lament as she poses for an AP photograph holding her dead sister's portrait	372
	The days of good looks	374
	Lesbianism, 2000	379
	Pomo Afro homo vexing of black macho in the age of AIDS	391
	The prong of permanency, a rant	403
	Ecstatic fallacies : the politics of the black storefront	409