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My erotic story in Taormino’s Take Me There
First, reviewer Stephen Ira mentions, upfront, that there is an expectation that Taormino, as a cis woman, won’t get it right — which tells me at least a little something about the reviewer. Ira does redeem Taormino for pulling off an erotica anthology that is “for cis readers . . . not just a lesson in sexual allyship, but a heaping spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down”. Still, it’s worth noting his surprise that she has.
Tristan Taormino’s Take Me There:Trans and Genderqueer Erotica
Tristan Taormino edited an anthology of trans erotica called Take Me There
Kate Bornstein (@KateBornstein), author and editor of many books including Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, which just won a Lambda Literary Award!
Patrick Califia (@PatrickCalifia), world-renowned writer, activist, and sex radical, author of dozens of books including Speaking Sex to Power: The Politics of Queer Sex
S. Bear Bergman (@SBearBergman), co-editor of Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation and author of Butch is a Noun and The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, which just went into its second printing
Ivan Coyote (@IvanCoyote), author of Missed Her and one of my personal faves, Closer to Spiderman, who is currently touring all over Canada
Julia Serano, author of Whipping Girl, currently at work on a new book
Laura Antoniou (@lantoniou), author of the groundbreaking series The Marketplace, which was the first SM erotica series featuring a transman as the romantic hero. She wrote a story especially for this book all about Chris Parker!
Helen Boyd (@helen_of_boyd), author of She’s Not the Man I Married and My Husband Betty
Sandra McDonald, author of the Lambda Literary Award winner, Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories
Rachel Kramer Bussel (@Raquelita), queen of erotica whose latest anthology is Gotta Have It: 69 Stories of Sudden Sex
Toni Amato, co-editor of Pinned Down by Pronouns and frequent Best Lesbian Erotica contributor
Gina de Vries, genderqueer femme, Paisan pervert, writer, performer, cultural worker, activist, editor of Becoming: Young Ideas on Gender, Identity, and Sexuality
Rahne Alexander (@foucauldian_ho), musician, multimedia artist, guitarist and vocalist in the bands The Oops and The Degenerettes
Giselle Renarde (@GiselleRenarde), erotica writer and editor of Future Histories: Transgendered Sci-Fi Erotica
Alicia E. Goranson, playwright, screenwriter, and author of Supervillianz
Rachel K. Zall, poet, performing artist, activist and author of The Oxygen Catastrophe
Tobi Hill-Meyer (@Tobitastic), activist, filmmaker, writer, and Feminist Porn Award winner
Shawna Virago, singer/songwriter and activist
Andrea Zanin (@sexgeekAZ), organizer, educator, and writer
Sinclair Sexsmith (@mrsexsmith), creator of The Sugarbutch Chronicles and frequent Best Lesbian Erotica contributor
Skian McGuire, one of my favorite erotica writers ever
Arden Hill, writer and poet
Anna Watson, writer and creator of The Femme Bibliography Project
It comes out in October but you can pre-order it now.