Local Woman Motivational & Inspirational and the unwritten experience of

and the unwritten experience of so many descendants of those who passed through the door

monotone backdrop that is overtaken by joyful colors

first published in France in 1955

Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn--he's Puerto Rican

this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys

Local Woman Motivational & Inspirational and the unwritten experience ofA pulpy, mytho poetic dispatch from an "anarchist jurisdiction" that explores the liberatory possibilities of community and womanhood. Enter: Local Woman, an archetypal figure, fresh from the forest into the streets of Portland, Oregon. She is a Black trans woman, seeking survival and satisfaction, giving seduction, disenfranchisement, and the contradictions of femme womanhood a face, body, and soul. In sensual, evocative lyrics, Jzl Jmz documents