Out in the Bay radio show and podcast, Sneed reads four poems from her new memoir, "Funeral Diva," and shares moments from her life story.
The book, published by San Francisco's City Lights, is a powerful collection of poems and prose described as a "coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s."In her book, Sneed chronicles her journey as a proud Black lesbian and the impact of the AIDS pandemic on Black queer life, and gives often searing commentary about today's COVID-19 pandemic, divisive politics and pervasive social inequities.Sneed takes us to Ghana slave ports and the streets of New York, tackling topics from the history of slavery to millennial gentrification (skewering "tech zombies" along the way) and health care.