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We are pleased to announce the release of Kicked Out, edited by Sassafras Lowrey, with foreword by Judy Shepard. Kicked Out is an anthology dedicated to sharing the stories of current and former homeless LGBTQ youth. Born from the belief that everyone has a story to tell, and that the telling of personal stories is essential in the creation of social change, Kicked Out, brings together the voices of current and former homeless LGBTQ youth from around the world.
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Class. Disability. Transphobia. Race. Body size. Surrogacy. Nationality. Biphobia. Economics. Sex work. Queer families. Misogyny. All of these issues and more comprise Visible: A Femmethology, the only two-volume anthology devoted to femme identity.
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Two Truths and a Lie is a memoir passing as three solo plays written and performed by Scott Turner Schofield.
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By turns playful, unsettling, raw and moving, Cripple Poetics: A Love Story is an immersive and sensual correspondence that builds and heats by accretion-one keystroke at a time.
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A collection of poetry and prose spanning 15 years, The Marrow’s Telling maps itself around embodied experiences of disability, race, gender transgression and transition, family violence, and sexuality.
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Self-Organizing Men explores that much-written about, highly politicized, rarely understood phenomenon known as “man.”
Publisher’s Note: This is an interview between Kicked Out Editor Sassafras Lowrey and author Julie Ann Peters.
I became familiar with Julie Anne Peter’s work very much by accident. I was preparing to move across the U.S. All my books were in boxes. An avid reader, I was going a little bit crazy without my favorite reading materials. A fellow book-lover and coworker took pity on me and lent me a new favorite of hers by Julie Ann Peters. I’m usually a nonfiction person, but I was desperate: with skepticism, I took her young adult novel and started reading.
Very quickly, I realized that Keeping You A Secret was a life-changing book, one that I wished very desperately had been around when I had been kicked out. As a teenager, I’d worn the spines off of the two teen lesbian romance novels I’d managed to purchase the summer before my senior year when I had been allowed to go to the bookstore alone.
Keeping You A Secret is an honest, raw chronicling of the experiences of fictional teenager Holland, who struggles with her sexuality. She negotiates a blooming love with her closest friend, finds queer community, and ultimately is forced to leave home when her mother discovers that she is a lesbian. Holland takes up residence in a transitional housing program for LGBTQ youth.
Julie Anne Peters graciously spoke with me about her experiences and the thought process behind this novel.
Femmethology contributor Asha Leong
Delicate as a pearl housed in an oyster. Strong as the branches of a magnolia tree. Femme has come home to roost in my heart.
Femmethology contributor Katie Livingston
Femme (n.) : A set of norms about femininity and the ways we transgress them.
Lately, I identify as a cherry chapstick femme, a drugstore makeup femme.
We had folks from Italy, Wales, Berlin and parts in between tune in to hear Scott read live from his latest work, Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps, found in Two Truths and a Lie.
That’s what Amazon told us when we queried why Self-Organizing Men lost its’ sales ranking and was showing up in the Amazon search engine as no longer in print.
Self-Organizing Men contributor Eli VandenBerg has a show at the William Way Community Center in Philadelphia.