Tenderness Memoirs mutuality and friendship as part

mutuality and friendship as part of the larger toolkit for confronting fascism

but she was given the gift of able to receive true

even those who they deem to be “fags

In the years after World War II

" This isn't just a book

Tenderness Memoirs mutuality and friendship as partIn a country where violence and the threat of violence is a constant weather for queer Black people, where can the spirit rest? With lush language, the meditative poems in the Isabella Gardner Award winning Tenderness examine the fraught nature of intimacy in a nation poisoned by anti Blackness and homophobia. From the bedroom to the dance floor, from the natural world to The Frick, from the Midwest to Florida to Mexico City, the poems range across