Lives Lived: Kate Bornstein on A Queer and Pleasant Danger, Susie Bright on Big Sex Little Death, Jeanne Cordova on A Memoir of Love and Revolution and T Cooper on Real Man Adventures
Sunday, Nov. 18, 3:30 p.m., Room 8502 (Building 8, 5th Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Kate Bronstein
Kate Bronstein’s, memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger (Beacon Press, $25.95) chronicles her transformation from a nice Jewish boy growing up in New Jersey who becomes a high-ranking Lieutenant within the Church of Scientology, into the transsexual icon she is today. Bornstein’s memoir is also a heartfelt farewell to her estranged daughter, a high level Scientologist whom the author hasn’t seen or spoken to in nearly 16 years. Kate Bornstein is a performance artist and playwright who has authored several award-winning books including Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and The Rest of Us, My Gender Workbook and Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws.
Susie Bright
Welcome to the "girl-talk" you thought you'd never hear in public. Susie and Aretha Bright are mother/daughter team, whose readers flooded them with explicit dilemmas about sexual pleasures and disasters, body issue, dating, relationships, and young marriage. In Mother/Daughter Sex Advice (Bright Stuff, $6.95) the pair takes on those topics and more. Susie Bright is the author and editor of several books of erotic and sexuality including Full Exposure and The Sexual State of the Union, as well as The Best American Erotica and Herotica series. She is the host/producer of Audible’s weekly podcast, In Bed With Susie Bright.
Jeanne Córdova
Jeanne Córdova's appearance is cancelled.
When We Were Outlaws (Spinsters Ink, $14.95) offers a rare view of the life of a radical lesbian during the early cultural struggle for gay rights, Women’s Liberation, and the New Left of the 1970s. Jeanne Córdova is living with one woman and falling in love with another, but her passionate beliefs tell her that her first duty is “to the revolution.” She becomes an investigative reporter for the famous, underground L.A. Free Press and finds herself involved with covering the major radical stories of the era. Cordova will also create the center of her revolutionary lesbian world: her own newsmagazine, The Lesbian Tide, destined to become the voice of the national lesbian feminist movement.
T Cooper
T Cooper explores what it really means to be a man in Real Man Adventurers (McSeeeney’s Books, $22.00) In this collection of letters, essays, and interviews, Cooper takes the reader through his transition into identifying as male, marrying his wife, and become an adoring stepfather of two children. “Subtle, engaging, righteously furious and often brilliant, this book radiates infinite possibility.”—Nick Flynn. Cooper is the author of three novels, including The Beaufort Diaries and Lipshitz Six,or Two Angry Blondes.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 8502 (Building 8, 5th Floor)
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