“the bull-jean stories are a tantalizing blend of poetry and performance art that sings and dances across the page. The oral tradition that has kept Black culture alive informs the phrasing, melody and rhythms of each of these pieces and invites the reader to listen as well as read. Surrender to the jazzy/bluesy riffs here and you’ll come away singing…” Jewelle Gomez, author of Don’t Explain.

Cover art by Juarez Hawkins

Published by RedBone Press the bull-jean stories earned the 1998 Lambda Literary Award for Best Book by a Small Press; a Lambda nomination in the category of Best Lesbian Fiction and a nomination from the 1998 American Library Association for Best Gay/Lesbian Book.

Listen to samples of the audio book
Written, arranged and performed by Sharon Bridgforth
Music by Deacon John
Vocals by Sonja Perryman
Produced by Lisa C. Moore

the bull-jean stories is based on the idea of circular Life/the transmigration of Souls. using traditional storytelling and non-traditional verse to chronicle the course of lovve returning in the Life-times of one wo’mn-lovvn-wo’mn named bull-dog-jean/the bull-jean stories give cultural documentation and social commentary on African-American herstory and survival. events pivot from the Heart of bull-jean, but the Work is about community, past times and Spiritual binding. “my intent is to serve as griot-anthropologist much like langston hughes and his jesse b. simple stories and zora neal hurston/preserving & passing on memory/language/humor and Truth”. Though each story stands fully alone/together they herald the fluid connecting power/NOMMO (Life force) that is the Spirit of African-American people.

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