Sisters in the life
a history of out African American lesbian media-making

To be transparent: seeing directions and connections in black lesbian film / Alexandra Juhasz -- The sisters in the life archive project / Yvonne Welbon -- Birth of a notion: toward black, gay, and lesbian imagery in film and video / Michelle Parkerson -- Narrating our history: an introduction / Thomas Allen Harris -- Narrating our history: selections from a dialogue among queer media artists from the Afri-can diaspora / edited by Ra℗Đl Ferrera-Balanquet and Thomas Allen Harris, with Shari Frilot, Leah Gilliam, Dawn Suggs, Jocelyn Taylor, and Yvonne Welbon -- Constructs of computation and desire: introduction to Yvonne Welbon's interview with Pamela L. Jennings / Kara Keeling -- Ruins and desire: July 27, 2012, interview with Pamela L. Jennings / Yvonne Welbon -- The book of ruins and desire: interactive mechatronic sculpture / Pamela L. Jennings -- Cosmic demonstration of curatorial practice / Roya Rastegar -- Identity and performance in Yvonne Welbon's remembering Wei-yi fang, remembering my-self: an autobiography / Devorah Heitner -- Producing black lesbian media / Candace Moore -- Stereotypy, mammy, and recovery in Cheryl Dunye's the watermelon woman / Karin D. Wimbley -- Coquie Hughes: urban lesbian filmmaker. Introduction to Yvonne Welbon's interview with Coquie Hughes / Jennifer DeVere Brody -- Stepping out on faith: interview with Coquie Hughes, July 27, 2012 / Yvonne Welbon -- "Invite me in": Angela Robinson at Hollywood's threshold / Patricia White -- Shine Louise Houston: an interstice of her own making / L. H. Stallings -- From rage to resignation: reading Tina Mabry's Mississippi damned as a post-"civil rights response to Nina Simone's "Mississippi goddam" / Marlon Rachquel Moore -- The circuitous route of presenting black butch: the travels of Dee Rees's Pariah / Jennifer DeClue -- Creating the world anew: black lesbian legacies and queer film futures / Alexis Pauline Gumbs