Cocoa/puss zine
Subtitle: Bigger, blacker, harder, faster, deeper
By: LaMesha Melton
Publisher: Lamesha Melton
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: African American women; Single mothers; Blacks; Race identity; Women graduate students; Sex; Feminism
Other titles: Bigger, blacker, harder, faster, deeper
Description: This perzine addresses LaMesha Melton's many roles in life: as a pregnant African-American woman, a single mother, graduate student, and sexual being. She discusses her body image issues involving both her "nappy" hair and weight, her participation in online pro-anorexia communities, her current pregnancy, defying gender stereotypes in raising her son, being "one of the Goddess's whore priestesses," and a positive sexual encounter she had with a group of men. She also includes short diary entries, an IM transcript, a letter to Shakira about how she is her "thinspiration," and a Cocoa/Puss Manifesta addressed to black women.
Notes: Cover title.

Purchased from the author at the Women of Color Zine Symposium, 2012.