Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger
- ISBN-10
- 1452941327
- ISBN-13
- 9781452941325
- Series
- Eating Fire
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 247
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-03-01
- Author
- Kelly J. Cogswell
Description
When Kelly Cogswell plunged into New YorkOCOs East Village in 1992, she had just come out. An exOCoSouthern Baptist born in Kentucky, she was camping in an Avenue B loft, scribbling poems, and playing in an underground band, trying to figure out her next move. A couple of months later she was consumed by the Lesbian Avengers, instigating direct action campaigns, battling cops on Fifth Avenue, mobilizing 20,000 dykes for a march on Washington, D.C., and eating fireOColiterallyOCoin front of the White House. At once streetwise and wistful, "Eating Fire" is a witty and urgent coming-of-age memoir spanning two decades, from the Culture War of the early 1990s to the War on Terror. CogswellOCOs story is an engaging blend of picaresque adventure, how-to activist handbook, and rigorous inquiry into questions of identity, resistance, and citizenship. It is also a compelling, personal recollection of friendships and fallings-out and of finding true loveOCoseveral times over. After the Lesbian Avengers imploded, Cogswell describes how she became a pioneering citizen journalist, cofounding the "Gully" online magazine with the groundbreaking goal of offering OC queer views on everything.OCO The first in-depth account of the influential Lesbian Avengers, "Eating Fire" reveals the groupOCOs relationship to the queer art and activist scene in early OCO90s New York and establishes the media-savvy Avengers as an important precursor to groups such as Occupy Wall Street and La Barbe, in France. A rare insiderOCOs look at the process and perils of street activism, Kelly CogswellOCOs memoir is an uncompromising and ultimately empowering story of creative resistance against hatred and injustice."
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