A chronicle of Askowitz's 40 week descent into the depths of pregnancy hell. At nearly 35 she wants a baby and wants it bad. So bad that she is willing to go it alone. Well not really alone, of course. She's got her friends, who drive her crazy with the insenstive questions they ask and the ugly maternity clothes they choose for her. And she's got her family, who drive her even more crazy than her friends, especially her mother who wants to make a quilt for the baby depicting Persephone and her goddess mother, Demeter.
Askowitz isn't afraid to write about sex and love affairs, about break-ups and heartache, about fears of motherhood and fears of being alone. And the best part of all is that she is so damn funny – Strollerderby |
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Harlem Renaissance figure Nugent, who died in 1987, was a member of the self-proclaimed "Niggerati" that included Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and others. His never before published roman à clef, written between 1928 and 1933, is a useful first-hand account of Jazz Age identity politics.
Gentleman Jigger focuses on two brothers: Aeon, who can "pass" as white, and Stuartt, who is openly gay, like Nugent. Stuartt becomes involved with a young hoodlum, forcing him to deal with the gangster's world of molls, jazz and gang bosses. According to Keith Boykin, the novel was never published partially due to the frank discussion of homosexuality, which Nugent refused to take out when asked by publishers. |
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Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, with chapters covering the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication of The Transsexual Phenomenon, and lasted through the early 1970s; the mid-’70s to 1990—the era of identity politics and the changes witnessed in trans circles through these years; and the gender issues witnessed through the ’90s and ’00s. It includes informative sidebars highlighting quotes from major texts and speeches in transgender history and brief biographies of key players, plus excerpts from transgender memoirs and discussion of treatments of transgenderism in popular culture. |
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First published in 2000 and out of print for last 3 years.
Kate Delafield Mystery #5
Kate reluctantly attends a 25th reunion with those she served with in Vietnam. The memories Kate has tried so hard to repress for 25 years come flooding back when one of the vets is gruesomely murdered and she is pressed into service by the Washington police to probe the memories of her one-time colleagues in search of the killer....Forrest continues to deal with important issues, here prejudice against homosexuals as well as now-forgotten Vietnam vets. |
