Firebrand Books

Spring 1985

Jonestown & Other Madness, Poetry by Pat Parker, 1985
Mohawk Trail, Beth Brant, 1985
Moll Cutpurse (novel), Ellen Galford, 1985

Fall 1985

My Mama's Dead Squirrel: Lesbian Essays on Southern Culture, Mab Segrest, 1985
The Sun is Not Merciful: Short Stories, Anna Lee Walters, 1985
The Land of Look Behind: Prose and Poetry, Michelle Cliff, 1985

Spring 1986

Living As a Lesbian, Poetry by Cheryl Clarke, 1986
Tender Warriors: A Novel, Rachel Guido deVries, 1986
Words to the Wise: a writers guide to feminist and lesbian predicable and publishers, Andrea Fleck Clardy, 1986 (Firebrand Sparks)
The Women Who Hate Me, Dorothy Allison, 1986
Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Seminism and Racism, Elly Bulkin, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and Barbara Smith, 1986

Fall 1986

Getting Home Alive by Aurora Levins Morales and Rosario Morales
Good Enough to Eat, a novel by Leslea Newman
Dykes To Watch Out For, cartoons by Alison Bechdel

Spring 1987

Shoulders, a novel by Georgia Cotrell
The Threshing Floor, Short Stories by Barbara Burford
This Is About Incest, a word and images Book by Margaret Randall
Sanctuary, a journey, a memoir by Judith McDaniel

Fall 1987

Politics of the Heart: A Lesbian Parenting Anthology, edited by Sandra Pollack and Jeanne Vaughn
The Monarchs are Flying, a Novel by Marion Foster
A Restricted Country, essays by Joan Nestlé
Making It: A Woman's guide to Sex in the Age of AIDS by Cindy Patton and Janis Kelly (second in the Firebrand Sparks Series)

Spirited Women 1988 A Wall Calendar

Spring 1988

A Burst of Light by Audre Lorde
A Letter to Harvey Milk, Short Stories by Leslea Newman
The Fires of Bride, a Novel by Ellen Galford
More Dykes to Watch Out For, cartoons by Alison Bechdel

Fall 1988

Presenting...Sister NOblues by Hattie Gossett
Diamonds are a Dyke's Best Friend: Reflections, Reminiscences, and Reports from the Field on the Lesbian National Pastime by Yvonne Zipter
Trash, stories by Dorothy Allison

Spring 1989

The Big Mama Stories by Shay Youngblood
Metamorphosis: Reflections on Recovery, by Judith McDaniel
Leaving in the Night, a novel by Joan Lindau
A gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Indian Women, edited by Beth Brant

Fall 1989

Eye of a Hurricane, Stories by Ruthann Robson
Humid Pitch, Narrative Poetry by Cheryl Clarke
The Other Sappho, a Novel by Ellen Frye
Sans Souci and other stories by Dionne Brand

1990 Dykes to Watch Out For Calendar

Spring 1990

Exile in the Promised Land, a memoir by Marcia Freedman
Jewish Women's Call for Peace: A handbook for Jewish women on the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict, edited by Rita Falbel, Irena Klepfisz, and Donna Nevel, preface by Grace Paley (Firebrand Sparks Pamphlet #3)
New, Improved! dykes to Watch Out for, cartoons by Alison Bechdel
Simple Songs, Stories by Vickie Sears

January 1990

Movement in Black by Pat Parker
Crime Against Nature, Poetry by Minnie Bruce Pratt

Beneath my Heart, Poetry by Janice Gould
Cecile, Stories by RuthAnn Robson
Eye of a Hurricane, Stories by Ruthann Robson
Free Ride, a novel by Marilyn Gayle
Rebellion, Essays 1980-1991 by Minnie Bruce Pratt
Scuttlebutt, a novel by Jana Williams
Out in the World: International Lesbian Organizing by Shelley Anderson (firebrand pamphlet)

Spring 1991

Just say Yes, a Novel by Judith McDaniel
The Women Who Hate Me, Poetry: 1980-1990 by Dorothy Allison (revised and expanded)
The Gilda stories, a novel by Jewelle Gomez
Artemis in Echo Park, Poetry by Eloise Klein Healy
Food & Spirits, Stories by Beth Brant

Spring 1992

Dykes to Watch Out for: The Sequel, added attraction--"Serial Monogamy", cartoons by Alison Bechdel
Legal Tender, A Mystery by Marion Foster
Lesbian (Out)Law, survival Under the Rule of Law by Ruthann Robson
Speaking Dreams, science fiction by Severna Park
The Worry Girl: Stories from a Childhood by Andrea Freud Loewenstein

Fall 1992

1993 Dykes To Watch Out For calendar (Published in July)
Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound, A Novel by Judith Katz
Talking Indian: Reflections on Survival and Writing by Anna Lee Walters
We Say We Love Each Other by Minnie Bruce Pratt (2nd edition of this poetry collection)

Spring 1993

The Black Back-Ups , Poetry by Kate Rushin (February 1993)
Stone Butch Blues, A Novel by Leslie Feinberg (February 1993)
Restoring the Color of Roses by Barrie Jean Borich (April 1993)
Words to the Wise: A Writer's Guide to Feminist and Lesbian Periodicals &Publishers by Andrea Fleck Clardy (updated editions with Bright Yellow Cover)

Fall 1993

1994 Dykes To Watch Out For Calendar (July)

Before Out Eyes, A Novel by Joan Alden (September)
Experimental Love, poetry by Cheryl Clarke (September)
Forty-Three Septembers, Essays by Jewelle Gomez (October)
Spawn of Dykes To Watch Out For, Cartoons by Alison Bechdel (October)

Spring 1994

Skin, Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature by Dorothy Allison
Normal Sex by Linda Smukler
Staying the Distance, A Novel by Franci McMahon

Fall 1994

1995 Dykes To Watch Out For Calendar

Now Poof She is Gone, Poetry by Wendy Rose
Sister Safety Pin, a Novel by Lorrie Sprecher
Stardust Bound, A Novel by Karen Cadora

Spring 1995

Eight Bullets: One Woman's Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence by Claudia Brenner with Hannah Ashley
Post-Diagnosis, Sandra Steingraber
S/He, Minnie Bruce Pratt

Fall 1995

1996 Dykes To Watch Out For Calendar

Horseshoe Sky, A Novel by Catherine Koger

Oral Tradition, Poems Selected & New by Jewelle Gomez
Parker &Hulme: a Lesbian View by Julie Glamuzina and Alison J. Laurie, introductions by B. Ruby Rich
Unnatural Dykes To Watch Out For, Cartoons by Alison Bechdel

Fall 1996

1997 Dykes To Watch Out For Calendar

Cookin' with Honey, What Literary Lesbians Eat, Edited by Amy Scholder
Love and Death, & Other Disasters, Stories 1977-1995, by Jennifer Levin
The Rooms We Make Our Own, by Toni Mirosevich

Spring 1997

A Crystal Diary, a Novel by Frankie Hucklenbroich
The Escape Artist, a Novel by Judith Katz
Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For, Cartoons by Alison Bechdel

Fall 1997

Evil Dead Center, a mystery by Carole laFavor
Read My Lips, Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender by Riki Anne Wilchins
Waiting in the Wings, Portrait of a Queer Motherhood, by Cherrie Moraga

Spring 1998

The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out For, by Alison Bechdel
Don't Explain, Short Fiction by Jewelle Gomez
The Wolf Ticket, A Novel by Caro Clarke

Fall 1998

Falling to Earth, A Novel by Elizabeth Brownrigg
Split-Level Dykes To Watch Out For, cartoons by Alison Bechdel
To Be Continued. . . Edited by Michele Karlsberg and Karen X. Tulchinsky

Spring 1999

Bruised Fruit, A Novel by Anna Livia
Movement in Black by Pat Parker, Introduction by Cheryl Clarke
Celebrations/Remembrances/Tributes by Donna Allegra, Angela Y. Davis, Toi Derricotte, Jewelle Gomez, Audre Lorde, Michelle Parkerson, Ann Allen Shockley, Barbara Smith, Pamela Sneed, and Evelyn C. White
To Be Continued: Take Two, Edited by Michele Karlsberg and Karen X. Tulchinsky