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Boys Like Her: Transfictions
"Boys Like Her" is a provocative collection of fiction and photos by Taste This a queer performance group including Anna Camilleri, Ivan Coyote, Zoe Eakle and Lyndell Mongomery.
Includes an introduction by Kate Bornstein.
"Boys Like Her" is a road movie of young queer life. Four distinct voices come together in a tag-team dialogue, interwoven with disturb
...morePaperback, 224 pages
Published
May 6th 2002
by Raincoast Books, Press Gang Publishers
(first published 1998)
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This book...it's a mixed bag. Well, no. My reaction to it is a mixed bag. On the one hand, it feels like a period piece, a little encapsulation of mid-90s queer politics and performance, so it's got this weird feeling of The Past to me (which is likely just my idiosyncrasies, but still colors my reaction).
All that aside, though? This book is the real deal. Hilarious, heart-rending, angering, inspirational, and above all: hot, which I mean in the best way possible. These writers and per...more
All that aside, though? This book is the real deal. Hilarious, heart-rending, angering, inspirational, and above all: hot, which I mean in the best way possible. These writers and per...more
Another smart, hot book about the complex gorgeousness of queer embodiment and performance that makes me sigh and wish I'd invited even more creative messes around me when I was younger. Actually, what moves me most here is that this book was co-written by four strikingly individual voices - I realize that I've never really thought about a tribe writing a book together before. It made me think about the communities of voices I've been a part of, and gave me an opportunity to think about where my...more
This book is fantastic, beautiful and oh so rare. I read this as a stolen copy from a public library, sold on the internet and bought by my good friend Shannon who is the number one world advocate for this book and it's powers to make everything make sense.
At first I felt like a poser, like I shouldn't be reading these stories on gender ambiguity, but as I read on, I realized that the point of this book is to show the reader that there is a little bit of all these gender representat...more
At first I felt like a poser, like I shouldn't be reading these stories on gender ambiguity, but as I read on, I realized that the point of this book is to show the reader that there is a little bit of all these gender representat...more
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This book made me think of a quotation from Emma Donoghue: "...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words."
very sweet and earnest, almost too earnest for me to relate to but interesting for historical context. as in, slight go fish/spoken word flav.
2.5 I would have liked to have found this book not long after it came out. Instead, reading it was simply like being brought back to just after high school, when I was holding hands with my girlfriend underneath our coast at the movie theatre, reading Holly Hughes and taking women's studies classes and watching performance pieces in which fellow undergraduates gave long monologues in the nude. The design of the book was painful to my contemporary eyes, but it is set up like a zine, something ...more
A great book of short stories of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and other artistic forms that bend gender and sexuality.
if you can find this book, eat it. a gift, really... love the way they capture their energy in here.
I think this was for the class that I had with Jean Noble, but I'm not 100% sure.
Really helpped me to understand a certain friend of mine better!
Roommate let me borrow this title after she found me reading one of Ivans book. Didnt really want to give it back though its somewhat comforting to know its still in the house. Im sure the public library where I work had a copy until somebody stole it...
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if i remember correctly...it was a long time ago...
Boys Like Her is a pretty awesome book. It was my first introduction to the world of butches and masculine minds in female bodies - and to Ivan Coyote's writing.
The stories, poetry and photography in the book are in general very good. The ones I treasured most were the glimpses into their lives and relationships, the stories where they talked about themselves and each other.
The stories, poetry and photography in the book are in general very good. The ones I treasured most were the glimpses into their lives and relationships, the stories where they talked about themselves and each other.
A sweet, passionate, occasionally brilliant road trip through gender. If you've ever loved anyone who didn't fit within neatly defined categories, this book will make you fall in love just a little bit more. I might be too jaded for it now, but there was a time when I slept with this next to my head and close to my heart.
this was one of my first adventures into gay lit, so my rating might be a bit skewed. to be honest, i don't really remember most of the stories, so perhaps this rating should just be ignored all together. or maybe i should re-read it.
Four amazing queers took their stage show and made it a book, essentially. Mostly short stories. Made me laugh and cry.
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Photography, poetry, memoirs. very good.
I'll just say earnest. and leave it that.
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“We are carrying contraband words with us, memorized, tucked away in tattered journals and stored magically on disks in Anna's left pocket. Canadian words, queer words that we spoke on-stage for money in the land of the brave. With no valid permit, license, visa or contract to do so. Felons, really, all of us, and now we intended to flee the scene without paying income tax on the twelve dollars and fifty American cents we each made. It's just this kind of shameless law-breaking that gives all poets a bad name.”
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