My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way HomeAmber 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 writing, an introduction written especially for this book, and five new essays including "A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home," "My Dangerous Desires," and "Sexuality, Labor, and the New Trade Unionism." In looking at themes such as the relationship between activism and desire or how sexuality can be intimately tied to one's class identity, Hollibaugh fiercely and fearlessly analyzes her own political development as a response to her unique personal history. She explores the concept of labeling and the associated issues of categories such as butch or femme, transgender, bisexual, top or bottom, drag queen, b-girl, or drag king. The volume includes conversations with other writers, such as Deirdre English, Gayle Rubin, Jewelle Gomez, and CherrĂe Moraga. From the groundbreaking article "What We're Rollin' Around in Bed With" to the radical "Sex Work Notes: Some Tensions of a Former Whore and a Practicing Feminist," Hollibaugh charges ahead to describe her reality, never flinching from the truth. Dorothy Allison's moving foreword pays tribute to a life lived in struggle by a working-class lesbian who, like herself, refuses to suppress her dangerous desires. Having informed many of the debates that have become central to gay and lesbian activism, Hollibaugh's work challenges her readers to speak, write, and record their desires--especially, perhaps, the most dangerous of them--"in order for us all to survive." |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home 1999 | 12 |
The Defeat of the Briggs Initiative and Beyond 1979 | 43 |
What Were Rollin around in Bed With 19791980 | 62 |
Radical Hope in Passion and Danger 1983 | 85 |
The Right to Rebel 1979 | 104 |
A Conversation on Sexuality and Feminism 1981 | 118 |
Another Place to Breathe 1998 | 138 |
Some Tensions of a Former Whore and a Practicing Feminist 1999 | 181 |
Facing Our Risks for HIV in the Middle of an Epidemic 1992 | 187 |
Transmission Transmission Wheres the Transmission? 1994 | 192 |
Bravery and Fear in the Construction of a Lesbian Geography of Risk 1999 | 203 |
Sexuality Labor and the New Trade Unionism 2000 | 219 |
Gender Warriors 1997 | 239 |
Falling in Love with Stone Butches Passing Women and Girls Who Are Guys Who Catch My Eye 2000 | 253 |
Publication Notes | 271 |
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