Whale Fall

ok what’s your florence + the machine song. mine is rabbit heart (raise it up)<3

been trying to get myself to read more of the 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle for about a month now but i just can’t seem to get myself to do it so i’m rerouting and gonna try reading Carrie!

A marine sea landscape, depicting three sailing ships asea, in the midst of an Atlantic storm, with crashing waves to fore- and background, by unknown artist (19th-20th century)

your sign to buy her a locket

in honor of black history month 2025, i’ve put together a list of books written by black sapphic authors for you to read in the month of february

non-fiction essays/memoirs:

all about love: new visions by bell hooks

black lesbian in white america by anita cornwell

sister outsider: essays and speeches by audre lorde

mouths of rain: an anthology of black lesbian thought by briona simone jones

blues legacies and black feminism by angela davis

does your mama know?: an anthology of black lesbian coming out stories by lisa c. moore

fiction:

the color purple by alice walker

loving her by ann allen shockley

the gilda stories by jewelle gomez

in another place, not here by dionne brand

pomegranate by helen elaine lee

the summer we got free by mia mckenzie

these letters end in tears by musih tedji xaviere

dead in long beach, california by venita blackburn

young adult:

honey girl by morgan rogers

escaping mr. rochester by l.l. mckinney

this ravenous fate by hayley dennings

faebound by saraa el-arifa

so let them burn by kamilah cole

where sleeping girls lie by faridah àbíké-íyímídé

adult:

the deep by rivers solomon

sweet vengeance by viano oniomoh

come back (love concealed) by terri ronald

house of hunger by alexis henderson

short stories:

girl, woman, other by bernadine evaristo

the secret lives of church ladies by deesha philyaw

additional info:

-> “why wasn’t this book listed?” probably because it wasn’t black sapphic-centric, the author isn’t a black sapphic themself, or i just simply haven’t heard of it! so feel free to add on if it meets those two criteria

many of these books require trigger warnings, especially some of the older ones that are more likely to feature racial struggles of the time. please do your due diligence and search for tws if you want to read them!

please feel free to add onto this list in the rbs or comments! happy black history month

i think writers don’t understand that siblings being enemies/on opposing sides would be so much more impactful if they allowed them to still laugh at the inside jokes they share

If your life is horrible and you need a new source of meaning and direction.... Do NOT find religion. Learn to identify plants.

karlach and hot to go by chappell roan

vi: promise me you won’t change.

cait: i won’t

she’s saying she’s not gonna promise that. just in case there are still some people that haven’t picked up on that.

Carrie walking home