Sisters in the Life

Preface. To Be Transparent: Seeing Directions and Connections in Black Lesbian Film / Alexandra Juhasz ix
Introduction. The Sisters in the Life Archive Project / Yvonne Welbon 1
Part I. 1986-1995
Introduction / Yvonne Welbon 15
1. Birth of a Notion: Toward Black, Gay, and Lesbian Imagery in Film and Video / Michelle Parkerson 21
2. Narrating Our History: An Introduction / Thomas Allen Harris 26
3. Narrating Our History: Selections from a Dialogue among Queer Media Artists from the African Diaspora / Edited by Raùl Ferrera-Balanquet and Thomas Allen Harris, with Shari Frilot, Leah Gilliam, Dawn Suggs, Jocelyn Taylor, and Yvonne Welbon 29
4. Construction of Computation and Desire: Introduction to Yvonne Welbon's Interview with Pamela L. Jennings / Kara Keeling 47
5. Ruins and Desire: Interview with Pamela L. Jennings, July 27, 2012 / Yvonne Welbon 51
6. the book of ruins and desire: Interactive Mechatronic Sculpture / Pamela L. Jennings 63
7. A Cosmic Demonstration of Shari Frilot's Curatorial Practice / Roya Rastegar 66
8. Identity and Performance in Yvonne Welbon's Remembering Wei-Yi Fang, Remembering Myself: An Autobiography / Devorah Heitner 92
Part II. 1996-2016
Introduction / Yvonne Welbon 115
9. Producing Black Lesbian Media / Candace Moore 125
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 160
12. Stepping Out on Faith: Interview with Coquie Hughes, July 27, 2012 / Yvonne Welbon 165
13. "Invite Me In!": Angela Robinson at Hollywood's Threshold / Patricia White 176
14. Shine Louise Houston: An Interstice of Her Own Making / L. H. Stallings 191
15. From Rage to Resignation: Reading Tina Mabry's Mississippi Damned as a Post-Civil Rights Response to Nina Simone's "Mississippi Goddam" / Marlon Rahquel Moore 205
16. The Circuitous Route of Presenting Black Butch: The Travels of Dee Ree's Pariah / Jennifer DeClue 225
17. Creating the World Anew: Black Lesbian Legacies and Queer Film Futures / Alexis Pauline Gumbs 249
Acknowledgments 261
Selected Bibliography 263
Contributors 269
Index 273