Firebrand Books
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Firebrand Books, was established in the early 1980s by Nancy K. Bereano---a lesbian/feminist activist in Ithaca, NY. It is a feminist and lesbian
publishing house and among the many which grew out of the Women's Press Movement. Other presses of that period include Naiad Books, Persephone and Kitchen Table Women of Color Press. It published the seminal work of several authors: Alison Bechdel
, Dorothy Allison
, Jewelle Gomez
, Leslie Feinberg
and Cheryl Clarke
among them. Firebrand has garnered twelve Lambda Literary Award
s (including the Publisher's Service Award) and four American Library Association
Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Book Awards. After her retirement in 1994 the press was purchased and recently was located in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Lesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
publishing house and among the many which grew out of the Women's Press Movement. Other presses of that period include Naiad Books, Persephone and Kitchen Table Women of Color Press. It published the seminal work of several authors: Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, in 2006 she became a best-selling and critically acclaimed author with her graphic memoir Fun Home.-Early life:...
, Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison is an American writer, speaker, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.-Early life:Dorothy E. Allison was born on April 11, 1949 in Greenville, South Carolina to Ruth Gibson Allison, who was fifteen at the time. Ruth was a poor and unmarried mother who worked as a...
, Jewelle Gomez
Jewelle Gomez
Jewelle Gomez is an American author, poet, critic and playwright. She lived and worked in New York City for twenty-two years working in public television, theatre as well as philanthropy before relocating to the West Coast...
, Leslie Feinberg
Leslie Feinberg
Leslie Feinberg is a transgender queer and communist activist, speaker, and author. Feinberg's first novel Stone Butch Blues is widely considered a groundbreaking work about gender.- Career :...
and Cheryl Clarke
Cheryl Clarke
Cheryl L. Clarke is a writer, educator and lesbian Black feminist activist, born in Washington DC in 1947.-Writing:Raised in Washington DC, some of her earliest work reflected the troubled times of the 1960s and the rebellions that ripped through the District of Columbia following the...
among them. Firebrand has garnered twelve Lambda Literary Award
Lambda Literary Award
Lambda Literary Awards are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes. Categories include Humor, Romance and Biography. To qualify, a book must have been published in the United States in the year current to the award...
s (including the Publisher's Service Award) and four American Library Association
American Library Association
The American Library Association is a non-profit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 62,000 members....
Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Book Awards. After her retirement in 1994 the press was purchased and recently was located in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2010 census places the population at 113,934, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan. The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 344,791 as of 2010...
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Books published
- A Gathering Of Spirit: A Collection by North American Indian Women
- Jewish Women's Call For Peace: A Handbook for Jewish Women on the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
- This Is What Lesbian Looks Like
- To Be Continued...
- Before Our Eyes by Joan Alden
- Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And LiteratureSkin: Talking About Sex, Class And LiteratureSkin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature is a collection of essays written by award-winning author Dorothy Allison. Published in 1994, the book contains original essays as well as updated versions of essays that appeared in anthologies and magazines like New York Native, The Village Voice, and...
by Dorothy AllisonDorothy AllisonDorothy Allison is an American writer, speaker, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.-Early life:Dorothy E. Allison was born on April 11, 1949 in Greenville, South Carolina to Ruth Gibson Allison, who was fifteen at the time. Ruth was a poor and unmarried mother who worked as a... - The Women Who Hate Me by Dorothy AllisonDorothy AllisonDorothy Allison is an American writer, speaker, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.-Early life:Dorothy E. Allison was born on April 11, 1949 in Greenville, South Carolina to Ruth Gibson Allison, who was fifteen at the time. Ruth was a poor and unmarried mother who worked as a...
- Out In The World: International Lesbian Organizing by Shelley Anderson
- Dykes to Watch Out ForDykes to Watch out ForDykes to Watch Out For was a comic strip by Alison Bechdel. The strip, which ran from 1983 to 2008, was one of the earliest ongoing representations of lesbians in popular culture and has been called "as important to new generations of lesbians as landmark novels like Rita Mae Brown’s Rubyfruit...
by Alison BechdelAlison BechdelAlison Bechdel is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, in 2006 she became a best-selling and critically acclaimed author with her graphic memoir Fun Home.-Early life:... - Restoring The Color Of Roses by Barrie Jean Borich
- Sans Souci by Dionne BrandDionne BrandDionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was named Toronto's third Poet Laureate in September 2009.-Biography:...
- Mohawk TrailMohawk Trail- External links :* *...
by Beth BrantBeth BrantBeth E. Brant is a Mohawk writer.-Life:... - Eight Bullets: One Woman's Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence by Claudia Brenner with Hannah Ashley
- Falling to Earth by Elizabeth BrownriggElizabeth BrownriggElizabeth Brownrigg was an 18th century murderess. Her victim, Mary Clifford, was one of her domestic servants, who died from cumulative injuries and associated infected wounds...
- The Woman Who Loved War by Elizabeth BrownriggElizabeth BrownriggElizabeth Brownrigg was an 18th century murderess. Her victim, Mary Clifford, was one of her domestic servants, who died from cumulative injuries and associated infected wounds...
- Too Queer: Essays from a Radical Life by Victoria A. Brownworth
- The Threshing Floor by Barbara Burford
- Stardust Bound by Karen Cadora
- Experimental Love Cheryl L. Clarke
- Humid Pitch by Cheryl L. Clarke
- Living As A Lesbian by Cheryl L. Clarke
- The Wolf Ticket by Caro Clarke
- ShouldersShouldersShoulders is drinking game that involves players competing in a fast paced game attempting to "count" to 21.-Game play:*The game begins with a player slapping his left/right shoulder, this starts the count at 1....
by Georgia Cotrell - Natural Birth by Toi DerricotteToi DerricotteToi Derricotte is an American poet and a professor of writing at University of Pittsburgh.At Wayne State University she earned a B.A. in 1965 and an M.A...
- Tender Warriors by Rachel Guido deVries
- Stone Butch BluesStone Butch BluesStone Butch Blues is a novel written by transgender activist Leslie Feinberg. The novel won the 1994 Stonewall Book Award. It tells the story of the life of a butch named Jess Goldberg and the trials and tribulations she faces growing up in the pre-Stonewall era. Published in 1993, the novel...
by Leslie FeinbergLeslie FeinbergLeslie Feinberg is a transgender queer and communist activist, speaker, and author. Feinberg's first novel Stone Butch Blues is widely considered a groundbreaking work about gender.- Career :... - Legal TenderLegal tenderLegal tender is a medium of payment allowed by law or recognized by a legal system to be valid for meeting a financial obligation. Paper currency is a common form of legal tender in many countries....
by Marion Foster - The Monarchs Are Flying by Marion Foster
- Crybaby Butch by Judith Frank
- Exile In The Promised Land by Marcia FreedmanMarcia FreedmanMarcia Freedman is an American-Israeli activist on behalf of peace, women's rights, and gay rights. In the early 1970s she helped create and lead the feminist movement in Israel...
- The Other Sappho by Ellen Frye
- The Fires Of Bride by Ellen GalfordEllen GalfordEllen Galford is an American-born Scottish writer. She was born in the US and migrated to the UK in 1971, after a brief marriage in New York. She came out in the mid-1970s. She has lived in Glasgow and London and now lives in Edinburgh with her partner...
- Moll Cutpurse by Ellen GalfordEllen GalfordEllen Galford is an American-born Scottish writer. She was born in the US and migrated to the UK in 1971, after a brief marriage in New York. She came out in the mid-1970s. She has lived in Glasgow and London and now lives in Edinburgh with her partner...
- Parker & Hulme: A Lesbian View by Julie Glamuzina and Alison J. Laurie
- Don't ExplainDon't ExplainDon't Explain is the title of the second Umbilical Brothers DVD, released in November 2007. The show was filmed at the Athenaeum theatre in Melbourne.The Description on the back of the DVD:...
by Jewelle GomezJewelle GomezJewelle Gomez is an American author, poet, critic and playwright. She lived and worked in New York City for twenty-two years working in public television, theatre as well as philanthropy before relocating to the West Coast... - The Gilda Stories by Jewelle GomezJewelle GomezJewelle Gomez is an American author, poet, critic and playwright. She lived and worked in New York City for twenty-two years working in public television, theatre as well as philanthropy before relocating to the West Coast...
- Oral Tradition by Jewelle GomezJewelle GomezJewelle Gomez is an American author, poet, critic and playwright. She lived and worked in New York City for twenty-two years working in public television, theatre as well as philanthropy before relocating to the West Coast...
- Forty Three Septembers by Jewelle GomezJewelle GomezJewelle Gomez is an American author, poet, critic and playwright. She lived and worked in New York City for twenty-two years working in public television, theatre as well as philanthropy before relocating to the West Coast...
- Presenting... Sister NoBlues by Hattie GossettHattie GossettHattie Gossett is an African-American feminist playwright, poet, and magazine editor. Her work focuses on bolstering the self-esteem of young black women....
- Beneath My Heart by Janice GouldJanice GouldJanice Gould is a Koyangk'auwi Maidu writer and scholar. She is the author of Beneath My Heart, Earthquake Weather and co-editor with Dean Rader of Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry....
- Sacred Space: A Feminist Vision of Astrology by Geraldine Hatch Hanon
- Artemis In Echo Park by Eloise Klein HealyEloise Klein HealyEloise Klein Healy is an American poet. She has published five books of poetry and a chapbook. Her collection of poems, Passing, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry and the Audre Lorde Lesbian Poetry Prize from The Publishing Triangle...
- Dish It Up, Baby! by Kristie Helms
- The Escape Artist by Judith Katz
- Running Fiercely Toward A High Thin Sound by Judith Katz
- Horseshoe Sky by Catherine Koger
- Along The Journey River by Carole LaFavorCarole LaFavorCarole S. LaFavor is an Ojibwe novelist, activist and nurse. She was a member of the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS from 1995–1997 and a founding member of Positively Native, an organisation that supports Native American people with HIV/AIDS. She was featured in Mona Smith's 1988 film...
- Evil Dead Center by Carole LaFavorCarole LaFavorCarole S. LaFavor is an Ojibwe novelist, activist and nurse. She was a member of the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS from 1995–1997 and a founding member of Positively Native, an organisation that supports Native American people with HIV/AIDS. She was featured in Mona Smith's 1988 film...
- And Then They Were Nuns by Susan J. Leonardi
- Love And Death, & Other Disasters: Stories 1977-1995 by Jenifer LevinJenifer LevinJenifer Levin is an American fiction writer, noted for her contributions to lesbian fiction. As well as writing fiction, she has contributed to the New York Times and Washington Post...
- Letting In The Night by Joan Lindau
- Bruised Fruit by Anna LiviaAnna LiviaAnna Livia is a bronze monument formerly located on O'Connell Street in Dublin, Ireland.Designed by the sculptor Eamonn O'Doherty, the monument was commissioned by businessman Michael Smurfit, in memory of his father, for the Dublin Millennium celebrations in 1988.The monument is a personification...
- A Burst Of Light by Audre LordeAudre LordeAudre Lorde was a Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist.-Life:...
- The Worry Girl: Stories from a Childhood by Andrea Freud Loewenstein
- Just Say Yes by Judith McDaniel
- Metamorphosis: Reflections on Recovery by Judith McDaniel
- Sanctuary by Judith McDaniel
- Staying The Distance by Franci McMahon
- The Rooms We Make Our Own by Toni Mirosevich
- Waiting In The Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood by Cherríe MoragaCherríe MoragaCherríe L. Moraga is a Chicana writer, feminist activist, poet, essayist, and playwright.-Biography:Moraga was born in Whittier, California. She earned her Bachelor's degree from Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles, California and her Master's from San Francisco State University in 1980...
- Getting Home Alive by Aurora Levins MoralesAurora Levins MoralesAurora Levins Morales is a Puerto Rican Jewish writer and poet. She is significant within Latina feminism as well as other social justice movements.-Early life and education:...
and Rosario Morales - A Restricted Country by Joan NestleJoan NestleJoan Nestle is a Lambda Award winning writer and editor and the co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.-Life:Nestle's father died before she was born, and she was raised by her widowed mother Regina Nestle, a bookkeeper in New York City's garment district, whom she credits with inspiring her...
- Good Enough To Eat by Lesléa NewmanLesléa NewmanLesléa Newman, born in 1955 in Brooklyn, New York, is an American author and editor. She is Jewish, a feminist and openly lesbian.She has written and edited 57 books and anthologies. She has written about such topics as being a Jew, body image and eating disorders, lesbianism, gay parenting, and...
- Women On The Row: Revelations From Both Sides of the Bars by Kathleen O'Shea
- Jonestown & Other Madness by Pat ParkerPat ParkerPat Parker was an African-American lesbian feminist poet.-Early life:Parker grew up working class poor in Third Ward, Houston, Texas, a mostly African-American part of the city...
- Movement in Black by Pat ParkerPat ParkerPat Parker was an African-American lesbian feminist poet.-Early life:Parker grew up working class poor in Third Ward, Houston, Texas, a mostly African-American part of the city...
- Crime Against Nature by Minnie Bruce PrattMinnie Bruce PrattMinnie Bruce Pratt is an U.S. educator, activist, and award-winning poet, essayist, and theorist. Pratt was born in Selma, Alabama, grew up in Centreville,...
- We Say We Love Each Other by Minnie Bruce PrattMinnie Bruce PrattMinnie Bruce Pratt is an U.S. educator, activist, and award-winning poet, essayist, and theorist. Pratt was born in Selma, Alabama, grew up in Centreville,...
- Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 by Minnie Bruce PrattMinnie Bruce PrattMinnie Bruce Pratt is an U.S. educator, activist, and award-winning poet, essayist, and theorist. Pratt was born in Selma, Alabama, grew up in Centreville,...
- This Is About Incest by Margaret Randall
- Cecile by Ruthann RobsonRuthann RobsonRuthann Robson is a Professor of Law and University Distinguished Professor. As well as her writings in legal scholarship and theory, she has also published fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.- Career :...
- Eye Of A Hurricane by Ruthann RobsonRuthann RobsonRuthann Robson is a Professor of Law and University Distinguished Professor. As well as her writings in legal scholarship and theory, she has also published fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.- Career :...
- Lesbian (Out)law: Survival Under the Rule of Law by Ruthann RobsonRuthann RobsonRuthann Robson is a Professor of Law and University Distinguished Professor. As well as her writings in legal scholarship and theory, she has also published fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.- Career :...
- Now Poof She Is Gone by Wendy RoseWendy RoseWendy Rose is a Hopi/Miwok writer. Having grown up in an environment which placed little emphasis on her Native American background, much of her verse deals with her search for her personal identity as a Native American...
- The Black Back-Ups by Kate Rushin
- Simple Songs by Vickie Sears
- My Mama's Dead Squirrel: Lesbian Essays on Southern Culture by Mab SegrestMab SegrestMab Segrest is an American feminist writer and activist. Mab Segrest is best known for her 1994 autobiographical work Memoir of a Race Traitor....
- Normal Sex by Linda Smukler
- Sister Safety Pin by Lorrie SprecherLorrie SprecherLorrie Sprecher is a writer, musician, and activist.Her debut novel, Sister Safety Pin, details the life of a 20-something lesbian named Melany as she struggles to come to terms with her sexuality, her lovers, her future, and her place in the changing world of punk rock...
- Post-Diagnosis by Sandra SteingraberSandra SteingraberSandra Steingraber is an American biologist, author, and cancer survivor in the tradition of Rachel Carson. Steingraber writes and lectures on the environmental factors that contribute to reproductive health problems and environmental links to cancer.-Awards and honors:* 1997 - Named a Ms...
- Venus of Chalk by Susan Stinson
- Breathless by Kitty Tsui
- The Sun Is Not Merciful by Anna Lee WaltersAnna Lee WaltersAnna Lee Walters is an award-winning Pawnee/Otoe-Missouria author from Oklahoma.-Career:Walters works at the Diné College in Arizona, where she directs the college press. She lives in Tsaile, Arizona with her husband Harry Walters...
- Talking Indian: Reflections on Survival and Writing by Anna Lee WaltersAnna Lee WaltersAnna Lee Walters is an award-winning Pawnee/Otoe-Missouria author from Oklahoma.-Career:Walters works at the Diné College in Arizona, where she directs the college press. She lives in Tsaile, Arizona with her husband Harry Walters...
- The Price Of Passion by Jess Wells
- The Mandrake Broom by Jess Wells
- Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender by Riki Anne Wilchins
- Scuttlebutt by Jana Williams
- The Big Mama Stories by Shay YoungbloodShay YoungbloodShay Youngblood is a novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. She was born in Columbus, Georgia in 1959. She has been fascinated with the written word since she first learned how to read. Her favorite recurring dream as a child was one in which she lived in a library...
- Diamonds Are A Dyke's Best Friend: Reflections, Reminiscences, and Reports from the Field on the Lesbian National Pastime by Yvonne Zipter
See also
- Lesbian literatureLesbian literatureThis is a list of books portraying sexual relations between female characters, who may include lesbians, bisexuals and WSWs.-Classic fiction and drama:*The Bachelor Girl – Victor Margueritte –...
- LGBT literatureLGBT literatureGay literature is a collective term for literature produced by or for the LGBT community, or which involves characters, plot lines or themes portraying male homosexual behavior.-Subgenres:...
- Lambda Literary AwardLambda Literary AwardLambda Literary Awards are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes. Categories include Humor, Romance and Biography. To qualify, a book must have been published in the United States in the year current to the award...
- American Library AssociationAmerican Library AssociationThe American Library Association is a non-profit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 62,000 members....