You still have community in their community, and they represent who you could have been had one different decision been made. To be reminded that even though you have ended up in a partnership with someone who is neither Black nor queer nor female, you are still like these women. There is some conflict, but it’s resolved and everyone is satisfied in the end.Īs a straight-presenting queer Black woman, reading happy stories of love between queer Black woman is more than wonderful it’s necessary. Both had to deal with family stuff of very different natures, and could eventually rely on each other to be a safe space. Treasure was everything I didn’t know I was looking for: a sex-positive, happy representation of two young women who were in school and getting shit done. The book, published by Bold Strokes Books (the most prominent publisher of WLW romance at the moment), is almost criminally short, but Rebekah has a way with novellas.

I honestly don’t know the earliest I met real people who were Black, female presenting, and in love.īut I can tell you the exact moment I read that same situation, happily ever after included: It was February of 2017, and I had picked up Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon. Looking on it, it was probably Queen Latifah’s Cleo and her blonde bombshell girlfriend in Set It Off, a movie I saw and regularly watched when I was way too young, mostly because of the soundtrack. I can’t say the first time I saw a Black female couple in the wild.

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