Oh my goodness. For the Solstice, let’s travel into bull-jean’s world with sharon bridgforth’s performance stories. In the introduction to the book, she says, “with the bull-jean stories I wanted to celebrate the rural/southern working-class Black bulldaggas/who were aunty-momma-sister-friend/pillars of the church always been a working part of our community/giving fierce Love with fineness.” This book is prayer and song and queer sustenance, fierce and fine. Below is just a sweet snippet. I hope you buy the book and treasure it as I have.
Deep gratitude to sharon bridgforth for bull-jean and all her people, for loving that queer history and heritage onto the page and into our lives.
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bull-jean
slipn in
ever day
5am
deacon willie/clara’s man
go git him
supplies umph
everbody know
nappy love
be the one filling him sack.
every day
5am
deacon willie/clara’s man
slip out bull-jean
slip in
clara git her supplies too
— the bull-jean stories by sharon bridgforth, RedBone Press, Austin, TX, 1998
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