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list price: $21.95
edition:Paperback
category: Fiction
published: Sep 2005
ISBN:9781551521930
publisher:
Arsenal Pulp Press
list price: $21.95
edition:Paperback
category: Fiction
published: Sep 2005
ISBN:9781551521930
publisher:
Arsenal Pulp Press
Description
A rebellious anthology of stories about sex and the modern femme: no-holdsbarred queer sex tales that reinvent lesbian erotica in ways that are transgressive and empowering. Starting off where other lesbian erotic anthologies end, these are not your typically delicate, lace-and-feathers kind of stories; instead, they're blunt and hard-hitting and challenge traditional notions of gender roles when it comes to getting off.
The anthologists argue that good, clean lesbian smut is difficult to come by these days, overwhelmed by political correctness and authorial self-censorship. Unabashedly raunchy, these stories prove that femme porn can be sexy and smart at the same time.
Includes stories by Nalo Hopkinson (The Salt Roads and So Long Been Dreaming), Anna Camilleri (I Am a Red Dress, Red Light, Brazen Femme), Rachel Kramer Bussel, R.P. Chow, Daphne Gottlieb, Ducky Doolittle, Suki Lee, May Lui, M.V. Smith, Sherece Taffe, and Zoe Whittall.
About the Authors
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Amber Dawn is the author of the novels Sodom Road Exit (2018) and Sub Rosa (winner of a Lambda Literary Award, 2010), the Vancouver Book Award-winning memoir How Poetry Saved My Life (2013), the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize-nominated poetry collection Where the words end and my body begins (2015). She is also editor of Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire and co-editor of With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn. She teaches creative writing at d the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and also leads several low-barrier community writing classes.
Trish Kelly is a writer and festival organizer who has been published in numerous anthologies. She lives in Vancouver.
Awards
- Short-listed, Independent Publishers Award - Erotica
Editorial Reviews
Canadian dyke daredevils Amber Dawn and Trish Kelly dismantle every expectation of lesbian erotica in their collection, With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn. Featuring a select group (full disclosure: myself included) of dyke-identified women writers, they go beyond standard notions of the erotic to playfully, artfully, and boldly look at real women's desires.
-Bust Magazine
— Bust Magazine
Well-written, empowering, and challenging.
-Books to Watch Out For
— Books to Watch Out F
...It can be safely said the writing here is superb, far superior to that of many "erotic" anthologies.
-Ottawa Citizen
— Ottawa Citizen
[The editors'] deeply personal introductions are brave insights into their own world and how they found empowerment through pornography.
-Xtra! West
— Xtra! West
An empowering collection of pieces that combine skilled writing with an honest look at lesbian desire. These stories question gender and sexuality in a way I haven't seen in lesbian erotica before, yet manage to be sexy as hell.
-Hotmoviesforher.com
— Hot Movies for Her
