"There’s a fine line between privacy and shame..." Read More
"Fagan knows that it is not enough for a memoirist to merely relate her story; she must figure out how her life has shaped her." Read More
"The Lesbian Avengers were enormous! Dykes were inspired to start groups all over the world, not just in New York and San Francisco. In its heyday during the 1990s, there were at least sixty Lesbian Avenger chapters." Read More
Fahs resists the impulse of speculation, the desire to turn Solanas into a comedic or tragic tableau. Rather, Fahs reconstructs Solanas’s life with extraordinary care and attention. Read More
"Now a published biographer, I fully understand the perils of the enterprise. So much can (and usually does) go wrong. Indeed, I believe that most biographies are doomed, from jump street, by a mismatch between author and subject." Read More
"I like writing about sex, and in particular, writing about real sexual and sensual experiences. Partly because I think the reality of sexual experiences is often elided in writing into something less ambiguous or ambivalent than sexual experiences often feel." Read More
For over forty years, Judy Grahn’s poems, novels, and non-fiction works have shaped feminist and LGBTQ consciousness. Her literary and...
Beth Ditto’s memoir is PUNK, which, after learning about her through the pages of this book, I think is probably what she would see as the best possible compliment about her work. Read More
