For Lack of a Better WordThis is a memoir of a lesbian poet/activist who grew up intersexed, fat and Jewish in 1980s California. The discoveries she brings back from America's gender underground are as intimate as a diary, compelling stories that take a no-holds-barred look at sex, gender, family, and community. What does it mean to be a woman? To be intersexed? Queer? Jewish? Fat? Femme? Middle-class? An activist and author? What happens when these identities are combined? Subtracted? Blurred or blown apart? Here are the universal lessons that can be found in a petrified world. |
