The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry, 1980-1990
10 best books like The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry, 1980-1990 (Dorothy Allison): Becoming Dangerous: Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers and Magical Rebels on Summoning the Power to Resist, I’ve Got a Time Bomb, Take Me There, The Beautifully Worthless, Indestructible, Not Vanishing, Our World, A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far, Girls I've Run Away With, Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons
A nonfiction book of deeply personal essays by marginalised people using the intersection of feminism, witchcraft, and resistance to summon power and become fearsome in a world that would prefer them afraid. With contributions from twenty witchy femmes, queer conjurers, and magical rebels, Becoming...
| Author | Sybil Lamb |
| ISBN | 1627290117 |
On her way home from a gay wedding, Sybil’s eponymous protagonist is ambushed, beaten, and left for dead on the train tracks. Days later, Sybil awakens in a hospital and finds her skull has been reconstructed, but it quickly becomes clear that her version of “normal” and “reality” may have...
In mainstream media, the erotic identities, sex lives, and fantasies of transgender and genderqueer people are often oversimplified, sensationalized, or invisible. Take Me There is an erotica collection unlike any other that celebrates the pleasure, heat, and diversity of transgender and genderqueer...
| Author | Ali Liebegott |
| ISBN | 0974638846 |
3.5*
This was an audiobook I picked up on a whim not knowing what it was about.
As it turns out, The Beautifully Worthless is a work of poetic fiction that describes a road trip in letters to the protagonist's girlfriend.
Unsatisfied with her life the protagonist sets out with...
| Author | Cristy C. Road |
| ISBN | 0977055779 |
The follow up to Greenzine #14; Cristy Road now offers up a novel about her years in grade school and high school in Miami - valiantly trying to figure out and defend her gender identity, cultural roots, punk rock nature, and mortality. You know that the artwork alone in here makes this a page-turner and...
| Author | Chrystos |
| ISBN | 0889740151 |
essentially the english language fails me sometimes when i want to capture the depth of importance of experience, and i can't find words for what i want to say here about gratitude and reverence. this collection is full of love and strength and rage that all are incredibly deep and powerful. her form is...
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0807068802 |
Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is one of the most celebrated poets in America. Molly Malone Cook, who died in 2005, was Oliver's partner for many years, a pioneer gallery owner and photographer. Our World weaves forty-nine of Cook's photographs and selections from her journals...
"The strongest reason
for giving woman all the opportunities
for higher education, for the full
development of her forces of mind and body...
the most enlarged freedom of thought and action
a complete emancipation
from all the crippling influences of fear-
is the solitude...
| Author | Rhiannon Argo |
| ISBN | 0989439607 |
Girls I've Run Away With is a story of first love between a rascally tomboy skater-girl and her wild-dreamer of a best friend, and what happens when the entire world tries to keep them apart.
“Rhiannon Argo captures the tough reality of queer teens with such playful sweetness you almost forget...
| Author | Marilyn Hacker |
| ISBN | 0393312259 |
Anyone who has ever been in love ought to read this book. Any woman who has ever been in love with another woman absolutely must read this book. Anyone who believes form in poetry trite will be changed by this book (and by Hacker's poetry in general).
I have heard Hacker read her work; each word is...
| Author | Judy Grahn |
| ISBN | 0884470237 |
It hurts me to see that people aren't reading this any more. These are some of the best poems I know about tough, labor-worn working-class women: waitresses and cleaning women, motorcycle dykes and truck drivers. "She's a copperheaded waitress,/ tired and sharp-worded, she hides/ her bad brown tooth...
| Author | Amber L. Hollibaugh |
| ISBN | 0822326191 |
Amber L. Hollibaugh is a lesbian sex radical, ex-hooker, incest survivor, gypsy child, poor-white-trash, high femme dyke. She is also an award-winning filmmaker, feminist, Left political organizer, public speaker, and journalist. My Dangerous Desires presents over twenty years of Hollibaugh’s...
| Author | Daphne Gottlieb |
| ISBN | 1887128654 |
I'd like to list the pieces within this amazing collection by Daphne Gottlieb which, in my experience, mind and heart, felt strikingly resonant. I love the form and ferosity of her words. Here are some of the poems which, as I was reading them, felt as though they were being branded into my skin.
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in college, in the late 80s and early 90s, i discovered that i had two aunts. this is one (and this is another). aunt Joan was kind, amiable, flirty, sweet-tempered, clear-eyed. she was filled with gentle strength; her spirit glowed. a generous aunt, one who loved the world around her and who shared that...
| Author | June Jordan |
| ISBN | 1556592280 |
“Jordan . . . is among the bravest of us, the most outraged. She feels for all. She is the universal poet.”—Alice Walker
“Always urgent, inspiring, and demanding, Jordan’s work has left its indelible mark everywhere from Essence to The Norton Anthology of Poetry, and from theater...
It's So You: 35 Women Write about Personal Expression Through Fashion & Style
| Author | Michelle Tea |
| ISBN | 1580052150 |
It's So You explores the intersection between personal style and personal expression through lively personal essays by thirty-five top women writers—including two artists. In a culture that uses oppressive beauty standards to influence and determine what’s hot, how do women manage to find...
| Author | Sapphire |
| ISBN | 0679767312 |
With fierce candor and an unflinching eye, the highly praised author of Push journeys through the harsh realities of African American existence to find the "door to the possibility of now." The heroes that emerge from these forty-seven vigorous poems confront the agony of betrayal as they strive in...
| Author | Mia McKenzie |
| ISBN | 0988628635 |
Mia McKenzie, creator of the enormously popular website Black Girl Dangerous, writes about race, queerness, class and gender in a concise, compelling voice filled at different times with humor, grief, rage, and joy. Her nuanced analysis of intersecting systems of oppression goes deep to reveal...
| Author | Lesléa Newman |
| ISBN | 1555832555 |
I know this book was written by our femme ancestors and has value for telling their truths in the context of their place in history but I hated this book. I identify as femme but I did not find myself in the pages of this book. The vast majority of stories told the same narrative again and again. Each woman was...
