Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley traces how contemporary queer Caribbean and African American writers, filmmakers, musicians, and performers evoke the divinity Ezili—a pantheon of lwa feminine spirits in Vodou—in ways that offer a new model of queer black feminist theory.

Acknowledgments  ix
Bridge. Read This Book Like a Song  1
Introduction. For the Love of Laveau  3
Bridge. A Black Cisfemme Is a Beautiful Thing  29
1. To Transcender Transgender  31
Bridge. Sissy Werk  65
2. Mache Ansanm  67
Bridge. My Femdom, My Love  99
3. Riding the Red  101
Bridge. For the Party Girls  133
4. Its a Party  135
Bridge. Baía and Marigo  169
Conclusion. Arties's Song  171
Notes  195
Glossary  223
Bibliography  225
Index  241

Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley is Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas and author of Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature, also published by Duke University Press.