#black lesbians

working on my dissertation!!

Angie Stardust shooting billiards in her eponymous nightclub Angie’s in Hamburg, Germany | date unknown, likely 1980s

by Cheryl Clarke,Living as a Lesbian

We are everywhere and white people still do not see us. 
They force us from sidewalks. 
Mistake us for men.
Expect us to give up our seats to them on the bus. 
Challenge us with their faces. 
Are afraid of us in groups. 
Thus the brutal one on one. 
Like a t.v. news script, every transition frustrates
rage. Hand in hand with me
you admonish
not to let them come between us
not to let them come between us on the street. 
We are struck by war crazy men
recording their gunfire on stereo cassette decks.