Tristan Taormino

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Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 journeys into the world of lesbian sex with uncommon, edgy stories that push lesbian lust and desire to new heights. This year’s stories are selected by award-winning author Michelle Tea, whose gritty, personal writing has earned her the accolade "a modern-day Beat" from Publishers Weekly.

Does the swagger of a sure-footed butch make you swoon? Do your knees go weak when you see a femme straighten her stockings? A duet between two sorts of women, butch/femme is a potent sexual dynamic. Tristan Taormino chose her favorite butch/femme stories from the Best Lesbian Erotica series, which has sold over 200,000 copies in the 16 years she was editor. And if you think you know what goes in in the bedroom between femmes and butches, these 22 shorts will delight you with erotic surprises. In Joy Parks's delicious "Sweet Thing," the new femme librarian in town shows a butch baker a new trick in bed. The stud in "Tag!," by D. Alexandria, finds her baby girl after a chase in the woods by scent alone. And the girl in a pleated skirt gets exactly what she wants from her Daddy in Peggy Munson's "The Rock Wall." Sometimes She Lets Me shows that it's all about attitude -- predicting who will wind up on top isn't easy in stories by S. Bear Bergman, Rosalind Christine Lloyd, Samiya A. Bashir, and many more.

Summary:"A Part of the Heart Can't Be Eaten, a memoir from writer, speaker, sex educator, feminist pornographer, and activist Tristan Taormino, is a meditation on family, coming of age, identity, and activism. Raised by a single mother on Long Island, she got her sex education from the 1980s TV show Solid Gold, Alex Comfort's The Joy of Sex, and summers in Provincetown with her father. Woven throughout the book are stories of her father Bill Taormino's family and coming out, culled from his memoir that she read for the first time while she was writing hers. She reflects on their relationship, a tumultuous conflict that led to their estrangement, his death from AIDS, and how it shaped her sexuality. After his death, she struggles with what will become a lifelong battle with severe depression. Living in New York City in the 1990s, she helps shape queer sexual subculture with her zine Pucker Up, her column for The Village Voice, and her editorship of famed lesbian sex magazine On Our Backs. After her first book is published, she follows an unconventional path which marks the beginning of her work as a trailblazing feminist pornographer. Brutally honest and sexually charged, the book explores themes of LGBTQ identity, gender, family, grief and loss, AIDS, depression, and queer subcultures of the 1990s"-- Provided by publisher

24 sex stories by some of the best-known lesbian authors writing erotica today. Past books include notables such as Dorothy Allison, Sapphire, Cherrie Moraga, Heather Lewis, Jenifer Levin, Shar Rednour, and Cheryl Clarke.

The death of her abusive, manipulative older sister prompts seventeen-year-old Em to remember their unpleasant life together, with their parents and then later on their own.