This abstract is from the cover of the book.
In a novella and 12 stories, Donna Allegra presents a portrait of Black lesbians set against the backdrop of West African, Brazilian, jazz, and hip hop dance. In each story readers inhabit the skin of women who live for dance, women who work and love in a world in which bodies are disrobed and constantly on parade but where lesbian erotics are rarely spoken. Throughout, we meet women fraught with uncertainty, women at a crossroads. But for all these characters, women come first in importance, an uncommon stance in the new mythology that paints Black women as self-sacrificing towers of strength waiting to exhale.
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