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Title: Longing to Tell: Black Women's Stories of Sexuality and Intimacy by Tricia Rose ISBN: 0-374-19061-5 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 11 June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Important stories by important, ordinary black women
Comment: Why 'ordinary black women'? Because Tricia Rose has brought us the *everyday* lives of African-American women navigating life in the contemporary US. The women here are ordinary insofar as they face the same struggles with the forces arrayed against all black women in this culture: white supremacy, patriarchy, homophobia, and classism. But she never makes heroines or superwomen of the these women and that is why the book is so powerful. The stereotype of the black superwoman who can do it all is absent here. It's often painful reading, but it also reveals the possibility of identification with the experiences found here. 'Longing To Tell' is poignant, sad and, at the same time, joyous and determined. The book often seems like a story told by a close friend and that is another reason why this book is so important. Black women's experiences around sexuality and intimacy are always rendered as fiction, myth, tabloid 'news' feature, or pathology *without* the voices of black women. Rose's book writes against that long, ugly tradition and lends dignity to black women's relation to sexuality and intimacy with no moral judgement rendered. In short, mandatory. If I could afford to, I'd buy this book for all of my friends.

Rating: 5
Summary: Longing to Hear!
Comment: As an African-American woman who feels deeply compelled to reach out to other African-American women, to learn about them and about myself, I am often very frustrated at the level of discourse that is routinely passed off in the media - yes, both mainstream and African-American media - as being truly representative of all black women. So many of the superficial, cardboard archetypes that are presented - the baby mama, the loveless career woman who is waiting for a black man to make her whole so that she can "exhale," the gangbanger, the avaricious rump-shaking rap video seductress, the funny fat girl with loads of finger-popping attitude, the longsuffering nurturer, the white girl's selfless best friend/spiritual-soulfulness guru - seem unable or unwilling to get to the heart of who we really ARE, what we are really thinking and feeling about ourselves, our lives, our bodies. Thank God for this collection! These honest, thoughtful, first-person accounts read like transcripts of deep conversations, spiritual exchanges of intimate confidences between these remarkable women and me as spread out over a life-long friendship. We are so often isolated, silenced, shamed into keeping quiet about our pain and frustration, so that we won't air our "dirty laundry" in public and embarrass our race, that we've almost convinced ourselves that our only problems in life are external ones caused by "The Man" - admitting to deep problems within our own homes, our own culture, our own relationships is condemned as disloyal sacrilege. Hearing these women's voices speaking their truths out loud helps me as I continue to identify my own voice and gives me courage to speak out, too. Seeing their continued hopefulness despite all that they've had to face gives me strength. And it lets me know that I am not alone. I bought this book the day that it was released and finished it in one sitting. And I am encouraging all of my friends (and all of you, too!), regardless of race or gender, to read it as well. It is truly funny, sad, inspirational and thought-provoking. It speaks to the black condition, the female condition but, most of all, the human condition, in all of its complexity.

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