We have not reached even half our goal and there's less than a week left in our fundraiser! Please, if you are able to, donate now. On May first we sent out a newsletter announcing our fundraiser. The goal: to raise $10,000 by July 1st. This directly funds the salary of two of our most essential employees for three months. In the midst of a global pandemic, Aunt Lute's commitment to serving our community by publishing the writings of marginalized peoples remains steadfast. Bu

Graffiti named 2019 Foreword INDIES Anthology of the Year Silver Awards Winner [San Francisco, CA, Aunt Lute] — We at Aunt Lute are pleased to announce that “Graffiti,” edited by Pallavi Dhawan, Devi S. Laskar, & Tamika Thompson has been named a winner in the 21st annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards as a Silver Anthology Winner. The editors of Graffiti gave the contributors a special challenge: to write in a way that centers neither "whiteness" nor "anti-whiteness”

In a time of large scale protests and pushes for racial justice, we wanted to take a moment and recognize the powerful works of literature we have published by Black women. As our focus is to support the voices of women, people of color, and marginalized communities, over the last few decades we have published the writings of radical and revolutionary Black women. Many of these women have worked to create, further develop, and push the theories of feminism, womanism, and soci

Black lives matter. Black pain matters. Black joy matters. Black safety matters. Today, there is no more important message that can be said. We at Aunt Lute are grieving the tremendous loss of life, freedom, and happiness at the hands of police brutality as well as Covid-19, systemic racism, and a broken criminal justice system. Black lives matter. As an organization committed to the empowerment of marginalized voices, our place in this fight continues to be to amplify the cr