shiraglassman:

romanticmoonchild:

poc authors who write woc wlw characters (especially in adult books)?

For Sizakele (my review) by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene - all-Black-woman love triangle. As MC’s relationship with her girlfriend gets increasingly complicated by both old and new traumas, she bonds with a new friend from Cameroon over their shared Africanness. MC is Nigerian-American and bi. Please heed TW’s in review.

Not Your Sidekick (my review) by @authorcblee - this one’s YA, though, sorry. MC’s parents are superheroes but MC’s powers never developed, so she accepts an internship–with their favorite adversary! MC is bi with a Chinese mom and Vietnamese dad, living in what used to be America (it’s futuristic sci-fi) and has a girlfriend by the end of the book.

Both these two have MC’s of the same sexuality & ethnicity as their authors.

More recs:

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi (my review) - Black lesbian MC stars in a sci-fi adventure about queer disabled women fighting Big Pharma in space (and by that I mean, the company that makes the meds is cheating people.) This one has polyamory in it as well as strong family relationships that are as important as the romance elements, and it does end with women in f/f relationships. The chronic illness representation is written from the inside.

Treasure by @rebekahweatherspoon (my review) - Black lesbian MC stars in contemporary romance about an overachiever coping with a collapse who falls for an exotic dancer she meets in one of her college classes. Weatherspoon also wrote At Her Feet, a kinky roleplay f/f romance novel starring a Jamaican/Korean MC and Latina love interest (my review.) 

Two of the short stories in Zen Cho’s Spirits Abroad (my review) have wlw MC’s; the whole book is excellent and worth reading–watch out, though, the eBook edition has more stories than the print one.

I guarantee happy endings from all the books in this post!

I would also recommend:

• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  
• My Education by Susan Choi
  
• Painting Their Portraits in Winter by Myriam Gurba
  
• When Fox is a Thousand by Larissa Lai
  
• (You) Set Me On Fire by Mariko Tamaki
  
• Miss Timmins’ School for Girls by Nayana Currimbhoy
  
• Prairie Ostrich by Tamai Kobayashi
  
• Bodymap by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
  
• Down to the Bone by Mayra Lazara Dole
  
• The House You Pass On the Way by Jacqueline Woodson
• Ash and Huntress by Malinda Lo
  
• The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
• Falling In Love With Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson (the novella is F/F)
  
• The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
  
• Better Off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon
  
• When We Were Outlaws by Jeanne Cordova
  
• Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love & Revolution by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa
• Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera (review)
  

For more, check out:

• Queer Female Authors of Color
  
• Books by Lesbian Writers of Colour
  
• Fiction about queer and lesbian women of color
• QPoC YA/NA (Queer People of Color Young Adult/New Adult)
• 50 Books by Lesbian Writers of Colour & 49 More Books by Lesbian Writers of Colour