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Choosing family : a memoir of queer motherhood and Black resistance
- Title
- Choosing family : a memoir of queer motherhood and Black resistance / Francesca T. Royster.
- Author
- Royster, Francesca T.
- Publication
- New York : Abrams Press, 2023.
- ©2023
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Details
- Description
- xix, 264 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- A professor of English literature presents a memoir of family, identity, and acceptance that examines the messiness and complexity of adoption and parenthood from a black, queer, and feminist perspective.
- Alternative Title
- Memoir of queer motherhood and Black resistance
- Subject
- Royster, Francesca T
- Lesbian mothers > United States > Biography
- African American mothers > Biography
- African American adoptive parents > Biography
- African American lesbians > Biography
- Racially mixed families > United States > Biography
- African American mothers > Illinois > Chicago > Biography
- African American adoptive parents
- African American lesbians
- African American mothers
- Lesbian mothers
- Racially mixed families
- Lesbian parents
- LGBTQ+ parents
- African American LGBTQ+ people
- LGBTQ+ mothers
- Chicago (Ill.) > Biography
- Illinois > Chicago
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- LGBTQ+ biographies.
- Lesbian biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-261).
- Contents
- Preface: Looking for signs: April 2012 -- Blueprints for a queer family -- The three of us and more -- Girl meets world -- summer 2016 -- Cece's journey -- dreaming the future -- Reckonings -- all you change changes you -- Coda: Stone soup love, with Ann Russo.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-580
- ISBN
- 9781419756177
- 1419756176
- 9781647003760 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022933891
- OCLC
- 1365395633
- Author
- Royster, Francesca T., author.
- Title
- Choosing family : a memoir of queer motherhood and Black resistance / Francesca T. Royster.
- Publisher
- New York : Abrams Press, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-261).
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-580