Status Updates From My Dangerous Desires: A Que...

It's moving to read a perspective so shockingly like and unlike my own.

I don't know if anything has ever made me feel so seen as the last piece in this collection. I cried.

I am often reminded of the James Baldwin quote: "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read."

But 'my dangerous desires' put words to something I really struggle to think about.

Hollibaugh's legacy is powerful.

Was very excited to stumble across a signed copy of this and a tonnes of queer theory in a charity shopping Abingdon

"The work itself was hard, but it wasn't the work of sex that made it dangerous- it was that no whore could ever hope to have an authentic female voice with legitimate rights if she came from this discredited place: an underground world that depends on keeping all its activity outside the verifiable world of labor and of commerce and, therefore, outside society's laws."

this book is so fucking good

she's so fcking right