Fri, May 12
|African American Cultural Heritage Fac
The Bull-Jean Book Party - Austin
Celebrate the arrival of Sharon Bridgforth’s newest book—bull-jean & dem/dey back!
Time & Location
May 12, 2023, 6:00 PM CDT
African American Cultural Heritage Fac, 912 E 11th St, Austin, TX 78702, USA
About the event
Join us for an evening of readings, conversations, and dancing to welcome Sharon Bridgforth and her latest book, bull-jean & dem/dey back!
RSVP ON EVENTBRITE HERE
Light refreshments will be served.
Books will be available for sale by Bookwoman Bookstore.
bull-jean & dem/dey back collects two performance/novels centering Sharon Bridgforth’s southern-Black-butch-sheroe, bull-jean. First published by RedBone Press in 1998, the Lambda Literary Award-winning the bull-jean stories chronicles the course of lovve returning in the Life-times of bull-dog-jean. Set in the rural 1920s south, the bull-jean stories is an act of griot-anthropology, remembering the ancestor we never knew but always knew we needed--the raucous, sweet-talking, heart-aching wo’mn-lovvn-wo’mn bull-dog-jean and the fierce and beautiful community that surrounds her. Twenty-two years later, bull-dog-jean returns in bull-jean/we wake. Grieving the loss of their elders, seeking healing, the Narrator calls forward bull-jean. Through a series of dreams, porch prayers, and visitations from cussing conjurers, Black…