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Sharon Bridgforth
  • Home
  • About
  • Shows
    • the bull-jean stories
    • River See
    • dBMML
    • Archived Shows
  • Awards
    • Windham Campbell Prize
    • US Artists Fellow
    • Other Awards
  • Publications
  • Working
    • Happenings
    • Dramaturgy
    • Residencies
    • Workshops n Panels
    • Interviews
    • Playing With Others
  • Contact
I have a new book!

bull-jean & dem/dey back

bull-jean & dem/dey back contains the bull-jean stories (originally published in 1998 by RedBone Press) with an Opening by Mary Anne Adams and Closing by Virginia Grise along with a new piece titled, bull-jean/we wake with an Opening by Celeste Henery and Closing by Signe Harriday.

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Celebrating Forty Years of This Bridge Called My Back and But Some of Us Are Brave

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LITERARY JOURNALS

The entire River See Theatrical Jazz Script in: Obsidian Issue 43.1

Sharon and Omi Osun Joni L. Jones essay titled,
Black Desire, Theatrical Jazz, and River See, in:
TDR/The Drama Review, Winter 2014, Vol. 58, No. 4.  EdS Jill Dolan and Stacy Wolf.

love conjure/blues excerpt in Mouths of Rain an Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought edited by Briona Jones

The love conjure/blues Text Installation in Blacktino Queer Performance

dyke/warrior-prayers redux (excerpt) in
Cream City Review Vol. 39, Issue 1

Anthologies

An excerpt from con flama in Windy City Queer

Litany-Blood In The Soil/Texas in A Students’ Treasury of Texas Poetry

dyke/warrior-Prayers excerpt in Voices Rising

interlude #21: the road to Higher Power in Spirited: Affirming The Soul And Black Gay Lesbian Identity

con flama excerpt in New Monologues For Women By Women

sunshine & home in Affirming Flame: Writings By Progressive Texas Poets

bull-jean slipn in & bull-jean & trouble excerpts from the bull-jean stories, in Role Call – A Generational Anthology Of Social And Political Black Literature & Art

Excerpts from love/rituals & rage and dyke/warrior-Prayers in Kente Cloth: Southwest Voices Of The African Diaspora

Omi Osun Joni L. Jones and I are proud to say that a piece that we co-wrote is in: Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature. Edited By Ana-Maurine Lara, drea brown

dat Black Mermaid Man Lady/Home imaginary performance event.

delta dandi is published in solo/black/woman

A Tribute for raulrsalinas in QUEER CODEX: ROOTED!

a wo’mn called sir in First Person Queer: Who We Are (So Far)

Street/Angels & Clarity in Check The Rhyme: An Anthology Of Female Poets & Emcees

Dona Julia in Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts

con flama excerpt in Is This Forever, Or What?: Poems & Paintings From Texas

amniotic/flow excerpt in Red Boots & Attitude: The Spirit Of Texas Women Writers

Generational Anthology Of Social And Political Black Literature & Art sonata blue excerpt in Ma-Ka Diasporic Juks: Contemporary Writings by Queers of African Descent

that beat in Does Your Mama Know: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories

Scholarly writings

Omi Osun Joni L. Jones’s Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Àṣẹ And The Power Of The Present Moment

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Volume 110, No. 4
Winter 2022
The Yale Review

Volume 110, No. 4
Winter 2022
The Yale Review

Experiments In A Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, And The Austin Project.

Francesca Royster’s Queering the Jazz Aesthetic: An Interview with Sharon Bridgforth and Omi Osun Joni Jones, in Volume 25, Issue 4, December 2013, Journal of Popular Music Studies

In Love and Abolition, Alison Rose Reed traces how the social life of Black queer performance from the 1960s to the present animates the unfinished work of abolition. I am proud to say she has included my work in her scholarship. More HERE.

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