Cookie Woolner

May 29, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Armistead Maupin |Cookie Woolner |Dean Spade |Torrey Peters

Reading Lists These books, both fiction and nonfiction, remind readers of what collective power has achieved in the past, and to imagine what it could do in the future I wrote much of Lesbian Love Story during the Covid-19 lockdown, when I was desperate to build queer community inside the walls of my own home. From my living room, with the cat making the occasional interjection as she strutted across the keyboard, I slowly connected with a community of archivists at libraries, universities,...

Sep 1, 2023 | libraryjournal.com | Cookie Woolner

. Sept. 2023. 210p. ISBN 9781469675480. pap. $24.95. HIST COPY ISBN Though some attention has been paid before to the lives of queer Black women in the pre-Stonewall era, by historians and others, Woolner’s (history, Univ. of Memphis) book is extraordinary in its scope and inventiveness to focus on their intimate lives.

Mar 28, 2023 | flipboard.com | Cookie Woolner

How Janelle Monáe Is Reviving the Harlem Renaissance in BrooklynI didn’t grow up with much art in my house, but one of things I do remember was a piece featuring five Black women in African print fabrics with different hues of peaches, grays, and purples. It was a present given to my parents (purchased on a Detroit sidewalk) when we moved to our new house when …