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lettertodaddy · 08-23-2011, 08:57 PM

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?

08-23-2011, 08:57 PM	#19
lettertodaddy Member How Do You Identify?: dorky queer femme bottom Preferred Pronoun?: feminine ones Relationship Status: single, dammit. Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: vancouver, bc Posts: 240 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 157 Thanked 715 Times in 158 Posts Rep Power: 8075873	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?