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Black queer authors to add to your reading list this Juneteenth and Pride Month
On this Juneteenth — which also falls during Pride month, Here & Now's go-to book expert, Traci Thomas of "The Stacks" podcast, shares works by Black queer authors.
Fiction
- "Little Rot" by Akwaeke Emezi (or anything else, they have seven other titles)
- "Family Meal" by Bryan Washington
- "Broughtupsy" by Christina Cooke
- "My Government Means to Kill Me" by Rasheed Newson
- "Another Brooklyn" by Jacqueline Woodson
- "Skye Falling" by Mia Mckenzie
- "The Prophets" by Robert Jones Jr.
Nonfiction
- "Another Word for Love" by Carvell Wallace
- "Coming Home" by Brittney Griner
- Any book by Samantha Irby
- Anything by James Baldwin (In particular the memoir “No Name in the Street” and the novel “Giovanni’s Room”)
- "How We Fight for Our Lives" by Saeed Jones
- "No Ashes in the Fire" by Darnell Moore
- "You Gotta Be You" by Brandon Goodman
- "Black Futures" by Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drews
- "The Viral Underclass" by Steven Thrasher
- "We See Each Other" by Tre'Vell Anderson
- "Ordinary Notes" by Christina Sharpe
Poetry and plays
- "Black Girl Call Home" by Jasmine Mans
- "Appropriate" by Branden Jacob Jenkins
- "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry
- "The Tradition" by Jericho Brown
- "A Strange Loop" by Michael R. Jackson
- "Homie" by Danez Smith
This segment aired on June 19, 2024.