Research Catalog

Title

Boys like her : transfictions / by Taste This, Anna Camilleri ... [et al.].

Author

Taste This (Performance group)

Publication

Vancouver : Press Gang Publishers, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Brushwood Rose, Chloë T. (Chloë Tamara), 1972-

Description

221 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

Boys like her us an adrenaline-rush road movie of young queer life and gender transformation. First stop, the Canada-U.S. border, four young queers in a borrowed car pulled over, notebooks, make-up, clothes and violin flung out on the concrete. The car is checked for drugs, contraband, fruit - and declared clean. The four in a borrowed car are smuggling dangerous goods. But what they're smuggling can't be sniffed out, pawed through, or seized. They're smuggling stories, poetry, scripts; words they've sold in performance on-stage. Felons, all of them, they've memorized their act and now are speeding away from the border, smiling, self-satisfied and definitely up to no good. Join Anna, Ivan, Zoe and Lyndell as they evade customs, tell their stories, forget underwear, break hearts and come clean. Surrender yourself to the brash fun of Zoe's Amsterdam "sideshow", to the darling day when Ivan first sheds her bikini top, to the fearless audacity of Anna's superhero adventure, and the soulfol guiding spirit of Lyndell's violin, Experience the world and truth of Taste This, where stories have no hard and fast boundaries, where gender and genre are malleable and where transgression is often the way to the most delightful transformations.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Lesbians > Literary collections
• Lesbians' writings, Canadian
• Short stories, Canadian (English)
• Canadian fiction (English) > 20th century
• Homosexuels > Romans
• Nouvelles canadiennes-anglaises
• Roman canadien-anglais > 20e siècle

Genre/Form

• Short stories
• Fiction
• Literary collections

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Kate Bornstein -- Introduction / Taste This -- [pt. 1]. Bound -- Border crossing : no proof / Ivan E. Coyote -- No bikini / Ivan E. Coyote -- Pigs & twats / Zoë Eakle -- Sparrow / Anna Camilleri -- Three left turns / Ivan E. Coyote -- Blood & salt water / Zoë Eakle -- Mother Irish / Lyndell Montgomery -- Incarnadine / Anna Camilleri -- [pt. 2]. Sick -- Border crossing : on the edge / Lyndell Montgomery -- Piano keys / Lyndell Montgomery -- skin to scar / Anna Camilleri -- Silent / Lyndell Montgomery -- Broken bread / Zoë Eakle -- Quick fix / Ivan E. Coyote -- [pt. 3]. Bent -- Border crossing : cop a feel / Zoë Eakle -- Stretched / Lyndell Montgomery -- Just like my dad / Ivan E. Coyote -- Drag race / Zoë Eakle -- Super hero / Anna Camilleri -- Plastic pearls / Lyndell Montgomery -- Sly boots / Anna Camilleri -- Silver silicone sideshow / Zoë Eakle -- Sweet boy / Anna Camilleri, Ivan E. Coyote, & Lyndell Montgomery -- [pt. 4]. Wet -- Border crossing : no underwear / Anna Camilleri -- She told me / Ivan E. Coyote -- Mermaid / Lyndell Montgomery -- The apple / Ivan E. Coyote -- Scream / Zoë Eakle -- Noise / Noise / Lyndell Montgomery -- Things happen in threes / Anna Camilleri -- The lonely corduroy boy / Ivan E. Coyote -- Rush / Anna Camilleri -- Photography credits -- Acknowledgments -- Author biographies.

ISBN

0889740860 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^99209613^

OCLC

• 39387489
• SCSB-12786836

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library