<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Queen, Khadijah]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Queen, Khadijah]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/samepageavrl/rss/search?query=Queen%2C%20Khadijah&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:23:49 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea]]></title><description><![CDATA[We stay fighting, even if we don't call it war. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is a poet's memoir about family, survival, and one servicewoman's search for autonomy. Yanked out of college and torn from her sunny hometown of Los Angeles in the early 1990s, Khadijah Queen finds herself sharing a basement apartment with her mother and sister and working two retail jobs in snowy, tiny Inkster, Michigan. Longing to escape the cycle of her family's poverty, incarceration, and addiction, she joins the US Navy, determined to earn money to finish college and make it back to L.A. on her own terms. But soon after Queen completes her grueling training and boards a doomed destroyer, she finds herself faced with near-constant sexual harassment, demeaning labor assignments, and overt racism. Stuck on a ship with nowhere to hide, she looks to poetry, literature, and letters from home to get through the long days and maintain her dignity. She keeps her head down until the workplace hostility against women spills over into her dating life and threatens to derail everything she has worked for. In trying to break through the unspoken code of silence between sailors, Queen must decide where her loyalties lie: with the Navy or within herself. Unflinching and masterfully penned, this memoir questions the promises of service to reveal the true price of being a woman at sea.]]></description><link>https://samepageavrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S195C585517</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://samepageavrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S195C585517</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Queen, Khadijah]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://samepageavrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/585517195</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Veteran&apos;s Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668650110/MC.GIF&amp;client=parlns&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disability Intimacy]]></title><description><![CDATA["The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms. What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating new anthology offer broader and more inclusive definitions of what it can mean to be intimate with another person. Explorations of caregiving, community, access, and friendship offer us alternative ways of thinking about the connections we form with others- a vital reimagining in an era when forced physical distance is at times a necessary norm. But don't worry: there's still sex to consider- and the numerous ways sexual liberation intersects with disability justice. Plunge between these pages and you'll also find disabled sexual discovery, disabled love stories, and disabled joy. These twenty-five stunning original pieces- plus other modern classics on the subject, all carefully curated by acclaimed activist Alice Wong- include essays, photo essays, poetry, drama, and erotica: a full spectrum of the dreams, fantasies, and deeply personal realities of a wide range of beautiful bodies and minds. Disability Intimacy will free your thinking, invigorate your spirit, and delight your desires"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://samepageavrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S195C538157</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://samepageavrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S195C538157</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://samepageavrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/538157195</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Essays on Love, Care, and Desire</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593469736/MC.GIF&amp;client=parlns&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>