Table of Contents:
Introduction • The Sisters in the Life Archive Project · Yvonne Welbon
PART I • 1986–1995
Introduction · Yvonne Welbon
1. Birth of a Notion: Toward Black, Gay, and Lesbian Imagery in Film and Video · Michelle Parkerson
2. Narrating Our History: An Introduction · Thomas Allen Harris
3. Narrating Our History: Selections from a Dialogue among Queer Media Artists from the African Diaspora · Edited by Raúl Ferrera-Balanquet and Thomas Allen Harris, with Shari Frilot, Leah Gilliam, Dawn Suggs, Jocelyn Taylor, and Yvonne Welbon
4. Construction of Computation and Desire: Introduction to Yvonne Welbon’s Interview with Pamela L. Jennings · Kara Keeling
5. Ruins and Desire: Interview with Pamela L. Jennings, July 27, 2012 · Yvonne Welbon
6. the book of ruins and desire: Interactive Mechatronic Sculpture · Pamela L. Jennings
7. A Cosmic Demonstration of Shari Frilot’s Curatorial Practice · Roya Rastegar
8. Identity and Performance in Yvonne Welbon’s Remembering Wei-Yi Fang, Remembering Myself: An Autobiography · Devorah Heitner
PART II • 1996–2016
Introduction · Yvonne Welbon
9. Producing Black Lesbian Media · Candace Moore
10. Stereotypy, Mammy, and Recovery in Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman · Karin D. Wimbley
11. Coquie Hughes: Urban Lesbian Filmmaker. Introduction to Yvonne Welbon’s Interview with Coquie Hughes · Jennifer DeVere Brody
12. Stepping Out on Faith: Interview with Coquie Hughes, July 27, 2012 · Yvonne Welbon
13. “Invite Me In!”: Angela Robinson at Hollywood’s Threshold · Patricia White
14. Shine Louise Houston: An Interstice of Her Own Making · L. H. Stallings
15. From Rage to Resignation: Reading Tina Mabry’s Mississippi Damned as a Post–Civil Rights Response to Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam” · Marlon Rachquel Moore
16. The Circuitous Route of Presenting Black Butch: The Travels of Dee Rees’s Pariah · Jennifer DeClue
17. Creating the World Anew: Black Lesbian Legacies and Queer Film Futures · Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index