... This chapter addresses the issue of women and self-representation through the life of a wealthy courtesan and tawa’if poet, Mah Laqa Bai “Chanda” (c. 1767–c. 1824) in the court of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Hyderabad. Through her life history, the chapter analyzes the reemployment...

... Jamilla Musser refocuses our attention on Lorde’s identity politics. In the essay, she asks how Lorde’s claiming of the labels lesbian, feminist, mother, and poet shifts our understanding of the erotic in order to grapple more fully with the legacy that black lesbian feminism has left to queer studies...