Southwest Branch Closing for Maintenance
Southwest Branch will be closed on Monday, March 25 and Tuesday, March 26 for replacement of the HVAC unit. The book drop will remain open and we plan to resume normal operating hours on Wednesday, March 27.

Presidential Preference Primary Election Early Voting at Select Library Locations
Ten OCLS Branch locations will host early voting for the 2024 Early Voting Primary Election from Monday, March 4 to Sunday, March 17 (10 a.m. – 6 p.m.): Alafaya, Chickasaw, Fairview Shores, Hiawassee, South Creek, Southeast, Southwest, Washington Park, West Oaks, and Winter Garden. Learn more about early voting at select library locations >

My Library

Request This Item
Add To My Lists
Add To Cart
MARC Display
Return To Search Results
View Cart
Empty Cart
     
Limit search to available items
Title Choosing family : a memoir of queer motherhood and Black resistance / Francesca T. Royster.
Author Royster, Francesca T., author.
Publication Info. New York : Abrams Press, 2023.
©2023
Book Cover
Copies/Volumes
Location Call No. Status
 Alafaya  306.8743 ROY    Checked Out
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  306.8743 ROY    Checked Out
Description xix, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
still image sti rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-261).
Contents Preface: Looking for signs: April 2012 -- Blueprints for a queer family -- The three of us and more -- Girl meets world -- summer 2016 -- Cece's journey -- dreaming the future -- Reckonings -- all you change changes you -- Coda: Stone soup love, with Ann Russo.
Summary A professor of English literature presents a memoir of family, identity, and acceptance that examines the messiness and complexity of adoption and parenthood from a black, queer, and feminist perspective.
Subject Royster, Francesca T.
Lesbian mothers -- United States -- Biography.
African American mothers -- Biography.
African American adoptive parents -- Biography.
African American lesbians -- Biography.
Racially mixed families -- United States -- Biography.
African American mothers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography.
Black lesbians.
Queer mothers.
Genre Autobiographies.
Added Title Memoir of queer motherhood and Black resistance
ISBN 9781419756177 (hardcover) : $26.00
1419756176 (hardcover)