Lorraine Bethel

Lorraine Bethel is an lesbian feminist African-American poet and nonfiction author.

Life
She is a graduate of Yale University.

Bethel has taught and lectured on black women's literature and black female culture at various institutions. She currently works as a freelance journalist in New York City.

Publications

 * 'What Chou Mean "We", White Girl? Or, the Culled Lesbian Feminist Declaration of Independence (Dedicated to the Proposition that All Women Are Not Equal, i.e., Identical/ly Oppressed,' Poem published in Bethel & Smith (eds. 1979), pp. 86-92
 * '"This infinity of conscious pain": Zora Neale Hurston and the Black Female Literary Tradition'. In Hull, Gloria T., Smith, Barbara and Scott, Patricia Bell (eds.). (1986). But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies. Feminist Press. ISBN 0-912670-95-9