{"product_id":"bull-jean-dem-dey-back","title":"Bull-Jean \u0026 Dem\/Dey Back","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ebull-jean \u0026amp; dem\/dey back\u003c\/em\u003e collects two performance\/novels centering Sharon Bridgforth's southern-Black-butch-sheroe, bull-jean.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published by RedBone Press in 1998, the Lambda Literary Award-winning \u003cem\u003ethe bull-jean stories\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles the course of lovve returning in the Life-times of bull-dog-jean. Set in the rural 1920s south, \u003cem\u003ethe bull-jean stories \u003c\/em\u003eis an act of griot-anthropology, remembering the ancestor we never knew but always knew we needed--the raucous, sweet-talking, heart-aching wo'mn-lovvn-wo'mn bull-dog-jean and the fierce and beautiful community that surrounds her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-two years later, bull-dog-jean returns in \u003cem\u003ebull-jean\/we wake\u003c\/em\u003e. Grieving the loss of their elders, seeking healing, the Narrator calls forward bull-jean. Through a series of dreams, porch prayers, and visitations from cussing conjurers, Black Mermaids, children that fly, and shape-shifting ole folk, bull-jean and dem guide the Narrator towards a realization of the sustaining power of love, memory, community, ritual, and spiritual binding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSharon\u003cbr\u003eBridgforth\u003c\/b\u003e is\u003cbr\u003ea writer who creates ritual\/jazz theatre. A 2022 Winner of Yale's Windham Campbell Prize in Drama, Sharon is a 2020-2023 Playwrights' Center Core Member, a\u003cbr\u003e2022-2023 McKnight Fellow, a New Dramatists alum, and has received support from\u003cbr\u003eThe Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, Creative Capital, MAP Fund and the\u003cbr\u003eNational Performance Network. Widely published, her work is featured in\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTeaching\u003cbr\u003eBlack: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black\u003cbr\u003eLesbian Thought\u003c\/i\u003e. Sharon's Lambda Literary\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning, \u003ci\u003et\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ehe bull-jean \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003estories \u003c\/i\u003ewill be produced by Pillsbury House + Theatre in\u003cbr\u003eOctober\/November 2022, directed by Signe Harriday. Sharon is Executive Producer\u003cbr\u003eand Host of the \u003ci\u003eWho Yo People Is \u003c\/i\u003epodcast series and her \u003ci\u003edat\u003cbr\u003eBlack Mermaid Man Lady\/The Show\u003c\/i\u003e is streaming on the Twin Cities PBS\u003cbr\u003eplatform. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"53rd State Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50389917958418,"sku":"9781737025566","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0eb9cc56-2605-4d57-b5e1-03d1cf670704.jpg?v=1728933156","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bull-jean-dem-dey-back","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}