"Mama Black Widow tells the tragic story of Otis Tilson, a stunning black drag queen trapped in a cruel queer ghetto underworld. In hopes of escaping the racial bigotry and economic injustice of the South, Otis’ family journeys north from their plantation to an urban promised land. Once in Chicago Otis and his brother and sisters become prisoners to a wasteland of violence, crime, prostitution and rape. This is the gut-wrenching tale of the destruction of a family and the truest portrayal of homosexuality in the ghetto ever told."
"Otis Wilson hesitates between the woman who wants him and the woman he wants to be. He struggles against his homosexuality and femininity, against these impulses that push him to cross-dress and that cause him to be rejected, despised, raped. He also recalls the tragic fate of his family, who left the plantations of the South to seek their fortune in the North, but found only the violence and misery of the ghetto. Collecting this testimony, Iceberg Slim gives us a biography of tragic realism."
"Who is Mama? She is simply the antithesis of the Mama of Genesis! Venal, devious, treacherous, she contributes, just like the black widow, to the pure and simple eradication of her home, husband and children included in the after-sales service!
Otis Tilson remembers... He remembers that family united in Mississippi! A daily life of hard work in the cotton fields but values that he believed were anchored in them forever: integrity, probity, mountain biking...
Otis remembers the long descent into hell that ensued from the pastor who initiated him, against his will, into the special love of his neighbor. From this painful questioning that was born from it: cheese or dessert, sea or mountain, girls or boys...
Otis remembers his mother's dreams of grandeur and his ineradicable penchant for money and success. Happiness is priceless, they say... However, the Tilson family will pay a heavy price on the altar of frenzied upstarts!" by Crossroads.
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