1st Edition

Dangerous Families Queer Writing on Surviving

By Matt Bernstein Sycamore Copyright 2004
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

Queer survivors piece together the clues to discover their own lives! Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving goes beyond the recovery narrative to create a new queer literature of investigation, exploration, and transformation. Twenty-six stories illuminate the reality of growing up in fear, struggling to rebuild lives damaged by sexual, physical, and/or emotional abuse. The book... Read more
  • Acknowledgments
  • Dangerous Families: An Introduction
  • LANGUAGE
  • gonna get my girl body back: this is a work in progress
  • Johnny
  • Not with the Buckle End of the Belt
  • Dog Dreams
  • Body of Knowledge
  • Dyslexic Process
  • population 1200
  • the doctor’s daughter
  • Pelt
  • MONSTERS
  • Hate May Not Be a Family Value, but Dysfunction? That’s a Different Story
  • Descent into Hell
  • Kid Pirate in Suburbia
  • Some Notes on Art and Architecture
  • This Blood (Beaten Out of Me)
  • Contaminated
  • Drinking
  • Did I Mention That
  • My Sister’s Shadow
  • Flooding
  • ESCAPE
  • Escape: A Myth
  • Weapons
  • S.O.S.
  • Walls
  • Confessions of a Ghetto Princess
  • Those Who Can’t Do, Write, or Daddy’s Little Pornographer
  • Absence
  • Someday
  • Bad Girl
  • The Prime of My Life
  • About the Editor
  • Contributors

Biography

Sycamore, Matt Bernstein