It includes essays, poetry, and other writings by Black lesbian feminists such as Audre Lorde, Cheryl Clarke, and Bettina Love.

[2][3] It was intended as a companion to the 1995 anthology Words of Fire by Beverly Guy-Sheftall, and contains writings by: Alice Walker, Cheryl Clarke, Audre Lorde, Pauli Murray, Barbara Smith, and Bettina Love.

[5] The anthology is divided into five sections, each with a different broad focus: uses of the erotic; interlocking oppressions and identity politics; coming out and stepping into; the sacred; and radical futurities.

Library Journal gave the anthology a starred review in which Ahliah Bratzler wrote: "...an essential component to any social science shelf, this is transformative, vital reading.

"[2] Charles Green of Lambda Literary praised the collection as a "timely anthology of writings that will certainly spark conversations, connections, and ideas, both within the community and beyond.