Queenie: Godmother of Harlem by Elizabeth Colomba and Aurelie Levy Toy “Scholfield tells a story that’s

“Scholfield tells a story that’s as haunting as it is cathartic

Forget logic

and how to survive―to live the ethics that a Black feminist lesbian warrior poetics demands

this is at once the tale of a woman on the margins risking everything to be heard and a testament to the power of storytelling to shape the world as we know it

Queenie: Godmother of Harlem by Elizabeth Colomba and Aurelie Levy Toy “Scholfield tells a story that’sA historical graphic novel inspired by the life of Harlem's legendary mobster, Stephanie Saint Clair Queenie follows the life of Stephanie Saint Clairthe infamous criminal who made herself a legend in Harlem in the 1930s. Born on a plantation in the French colony of Martinique, Saint Clair left the island in 1912 and headed for the United States, eager to make a new life for herself. In New York she found success, rising up through poverty and