The Social Protests of 2020: Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, COVID-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality collects voices from various Black intellectuals – university professors, a scientist, media communication specialist, poets, a visual artist, and political activists – to illustrate how the simultaneity of high-profile political events in the summer of 2020 manifest in our consciousness at one time. Reflecting the contributors’ honest visceral responses, the essays reveal the anguish, sadness, and motivation to act that each of them experienced in light of police brutality, COVID-19, and the Supreme Court's handling of employment discrimination against LGBTQIA+ communities. These voices address, in carefully reflected and theoretically formed ways, those universal feelings that level all human beings, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexuality, economic status, and education.

Sum of Parts is the story of Kira and Lola - two women torn apart by infidelity and loss. When Kira finds out Lola has cheated on her, she is distraught. Everything they have built together falls apart. Lola, in turn, cannot live with the guilt provoked by her actions. Her best friend, a stud by the name of Tito, and her mother attempt to bring her back to reason. But, the math does not add up.

Watermarks and Tree Rings tells the story of two women, Xotchil and Solimar, as they struggle to understand the implications of loving each other across time, space and through their deepest fears