This pioneering anthology Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology features writings by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983 (left), it has become an essential text on Black women’s lives and writings. The reprinted edition (right) features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides a fresh assessment of how Black women’s lives have changed–or not–since the book was first published. My essay, “The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community,” is included among so many other luminous writings  Other contributors include Tania Abdulahad, Donna Allegra, Barbara A. Banks, Becky Birtha, Julie Carter, Michelle Cliff, Michelle T. Clinton, Willie M. Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Alexis De Veaux, Jewelle L. Gomez, Akasha (Gloria) Hull, Patricia Jones, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Raymina Y. Mays, Deidre McCalla, Chirlane McCray, Pat Parker, Linda C. Powell, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Gwendolyn Rogers, Kate Rushin, Ann Allen Shockley, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, Shirley O. Steele, Luisah Teish Alice Walker, and Renita Weems.  Originally published by Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press in 1983 and reprinted by Rutgers University Press in 2000. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/=Home%20Girls