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| I Am a Red Dress: Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother and a Daughter
In this intimate and visceral exploration of love and betrayal, memory and imagination figure not only as catalysts for tremendous change, but as characters that propel a poetic journey beyond loss and redress, to discovery. "I Am a Red Dress is a melodious and haunting red siren of text culled from Camilleri's own life, which unravels the complexly woven threads of love, silence and betrayal through which she, her mother and her grandmother are bound. Evocatively written through the lushly rouged and split lip of poetry, Camilleri deftly "remakes language, profane, and delicate," and writes herself loudly and vividly from the gaps cloaked by and within the red dress."
Red Light : Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts
Those who are seldom taken up as an icons in mass culture - women of colour, queer women, and women of diverse gender experience - are featured: explorations of the "Indian Princess," the "Black Bitch," and the Bollywood seductress not only redress, but sear the lacquer right off of colonial and racist epithets; those who are maligned - witches, bitches, cougars, cunts, whores, and so-called crazy women - are celebrated; the show stoppers - largely unknown despite mass exposure - shimmy into new narratives in which nocturnal emissions spill and refract in a house of mirrors, and personal icons, who have lived solely in the imaginations of their creators, make their stunning debuts. Tempestuous, sexy, and lyrical, this collection of stories, essays, poems, and visual artworks, casts these powerful, conflicted icons in the (red) light of a new day dawning. Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity
"Brazen Femme is a brave and necessary book, written with honor and longing and truth. And much like strutting around in a pair of stiletto pumps or lacing on a skin-tight merry-widow, it leaves the kind of impression that is well worth some minor discomfort."
Boys Like Her: Transfictions
BOYS LIKE HER is an adrenaline-rush road movie of young queer life and transformation. First stop, the Canada-U.S. border, four young queers in a borrowed car pulled over, notebooks, make-up, clothes, and violin flung out on the concrete. The car is checked for drugs, contraband, fruit-and declared clean, but they are indeed smuggling dangerous goods. But what they're carrying can't be sniffed out, pawed through, or seized. They're smuggling stories, poetry, scripts; words they've sold in performance on stage. Felons, all of them, they've memorized their act and now are speeding away from the border, and definitely up to no good. In the world and truth of Boys Like Her, stories have no hard and fast boundaries and transgression is often the way to the most delightful of transformations. "It doesn't happen often, but sometimes a book comes at exactly the right time and ushers in an era. Boys Like Her is just such a book. . . the writing is sensitive, genuine, and unflinching. This is the first of many important books to come from this generation."
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