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Medusa 08-23-2011 09:12 PM
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Originally Posted by lettertodaddy (Post 404226)
I love Dorothy Allison. I mean looooooooooooove her. Back when I was in undergraduate school and was taking a Southern Literature course (and the only African American and out queer student in the class), I recommended that the instructor add Bastard out of Carolina to the curriculum the next time she taught the class. Imagine my surprise when she did!

I can't remember which of her short story collections this story was in, but she has this one story about being in charge of the kitchen at a women's music festival, where she and another woman, faced with a mountain of tofu and vegan cooking, flirted with each other by discussing the kinds of forbidden, heart-attack inducing, rib-sticking, lip-smacking southern food they really like to cook. The thing that stuck with me most was the other woman saying to Dorothy "I'm gonna feed you, girl." Just thinking about that makes my heart go pitter pat.

Does anyone else remember that story or the collection it's in?
WHOOOOOOOOOOO! Let me fan myself!

"I'm gonna feed you, girl."

p.s. LOVE the screen name!

lettertodaddy 08-23-2011 09:24 PM
I just watched that Femme Collective video and cried the entire time. It was pure catharsis. Thank you for posting it, Medusa.

Novelafemme 08-23-2011 09:35 PM
I think I just woke up everyone in my house after reading that DA will be at the October event!!! I have everything written by her in my little library. Bastard Out Of Carolina was my introductory novel...think I read it back in 1993 and couldn't put it down.

On a similar note, today in my Chicana Feminisms class I found out that Cherrie Moraga will be coming to the UofA in December. I about peed my pants. AND our first reading was from Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands. This semester is gonna blow my freakin' mind!

Medusa 08-23-2011 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Novelafemme (Post 404247)
I think I just woke up everyone in my house after reading that DA will be at the October event!!! I have everything written by her in my little library. Bastard Out Of Carolina was my introductory novel...think I read it back in 1993 and couldn't put it down.

On a similar note, today in my Chicana Feminisms class I found out that Cherrie Moraga will be coming to the UofA in December. I about peed my pants. AND our first reading was from Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands. This semester is gonna blow my freakin' mind!
GIRL! I read Borderlands a few years back and FELL. IN. LOVE.

julieisafemme 08-23-2011 09:40 PM
I read Bastard Out of Carolina many years ago and her writing was so visceral that it hurt to read it. I have not found another book or author that affected me like that. We are so sad we can't make it this year. Dorothy Allison and Ivan??!!!! It does not get better than that.

Novelafemme 08-23-2011 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Medusa (Post 404248)
GIRL! I read Borderlands a few years back and FELL. IN. LOVE.
RIGHT!!! Have you read This Bridge Called My Back? It's what made me fall madly in love with both of them. Something about those Chicana lesbian writers...makes me swoon.

Medusa 08-23-2011 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Novelafemme (Post 404251)
RIGHT!!! Have you read This Bridge Called My Back? It's what made me fall madly in love with both of them. Something about those Chicana lesbian writers...makes me swoon.
Yes Ma'am! I hunted that book down on Amazon for MONTHS and as soon as it was affordable, I grabbed it. Same thing with Dorothy's "Skin"! It's expensive right now on Amazon because it's hard to find but I found one at a Library sale a few weeks ago :)

Novelafemme 08-23-2011 09:54 PM
I have two copies of Skin. If you'd like I would be happy to donate one to the event. Just let me know. :)

Ms. Meander 08-23-2011 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Medusa (Post 404151)
My most favorite Dorothy Allison quote:

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I would rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.
My all-time favorite quote, EVER.

lettertodaddy 08-23-2011 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by julieisafemme (Post 404250)
We are so sad we can't make it this year. Dorothy Allison and Ivan??!!!! It does not get better than that.
I am so mad that I only just found out about this and can't make the trip. Stupid library conference. *kicks rocks*

weatherboi 08-24-2011 04:52 AM
I love her!!!
I have been reading her poems since the eighties when i went to college. I read Bastard out of Carolina on the beach in Miami 94'. I can't wait to hear her speak.

Novelafemme 08-24-2011 10:41 AM
will someone be able to video dorothy's talk? i would love to "hear" what she has to say.

Medusa 08-30-2011 09:50 AM
Hi Novela!

We will do our best to take video of Dorothy! I'd like to get her message out to as many people as possible!

Medusa 08-30-2011 09:53 AM
Also - For anyone attending the Reunion, Dorothy WILL be doing a book-signing after her talk and we will have books available for you to purchase at discounted rates!

If you have NOT read any of Dorothy's books, you are missing out on an amazing author and storyteller. Even if you don't like to read, I highly recommend you pick up any of her books and enter the world of amazing literature. She tells her story, my story, and probably yours too. I promise you will NOT be disappointed!

Medusa 09-17-2011 11:02 AM
Less than 4 weeks and we'll be worshipping at the church of Dorothy! WEE!

clay 09-17-2011 11:09 AM
ohhh I am really sorry to miss this...and YES! She is an amazing writer. She is also from my home state of SC....<smiles>. GOT to love dem Carolina girlsss...<wink> and our Suthern Drawlll....shoot..I am sad I can't make this. Give her a hug from me, Medusa...please? I have ordered one of her books...coming next month...sigghh...have a wonderful day...Clay (Donna)
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Originally Posted by Medusa (Post 408719)
Also - For anyone attending the Reunion, Dorothy WILL be doing a book-signing after her talk and we will have books available for you to purchase at discounted rates!

If you have NOT read any of Dorothy's books, you are missing out on an amazing author and storyteller. Even if you don't like to read, I highly recommend you pick up any of her books and enter the world of amazing literature. She tells her story, my story, and probably yours too. I promise you will NOT be disappointed!

macele 09-25-2011 01:07 AM
good grief, how'd i miss this thread! i'd love to meet dorothy allison.

there's a woman i know, every time she sees me,
"how's your momma? tell her i said hey!"
she smiles and then says, every single time! lol

tell dorothy i said hey! lol


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