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Chrystos (1947 - )
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Lesbian Erotica 1999 by
Chrystos, Tristan Taormino (Editor)
Another steamy installment in the annual series
of lesbian erotica, this year's volume boasts a dazzling array of
sexual styles and encounters, from exhibitionism to drag to
dominance, in public, in prison, in all-male bath houses (?!),
with custom toys, costumes, and covert arrangements. In an
anthology of this nature, even the dullest of stories have their
purposes, but a surprising number of the tales included here are
well written and inventive. One of the best moments is from Peggy
Munson's "Meeting Halfway," in which a couple makes love
while a cooking show plays in the background on the television
("The inside should be tender and pink," the chef
advises). Other highlights include the oaths invented by the
narrator of Cecilia Tan's "Three of Cups" to appease her
goddess-worshipping girlfriend ("Satan take my
bicycle!") and the unplanned antics of an electronic dildo in
Skian McGuire's "Remote Control." A collection to grace
a girl's bedside. With a lively foreword by Tristan Taormino on
the sexual state of the Union. --Regina Marler
Other Titles by Chrystos:
Essays about Chrystos:
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Chrystos was born in San Francisco, CA, on
November 7, 1946. She is of mixed-blood ancestry, but identifies
with her father, who was of Menominee ancestry. Her mother’s
heritage was Lithuanian/Alsace Lorraine. Instead of growing up on
the reservation, she was reared in the city around Black, Latin,
Asian, and White people and identifies herself as an Urban Indian.
Since 1980, she has been living on Bainbridge Island, Washington.
Chrystos is a self-educated writer as well as an
artist who designs the covers of her own books. Her work as a
Native land and treaty rights activist has been widely recognized
and the political aspect is an essential part of her writing -
even though she refuses to be taken as a "voice" of
Native women or as a "spiritual leader." She is also
working toward freedom for imprisoned Indian activists Leonard
Peltier and Norma Jean Croy. The other dominant aspect of her work
is lesbianism, which is outspoken and personalized in her
“love-and-lust” poems...
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Chrystos describes herself as a Native American
Lesbian poet and activist. Her writing is thoughtful and
provocative, taking no quarter and making no compromises. Her
poems range from funny to loving to angry (often all at the same
time).
This site hosts the poems In "Her I
Am" and "We Cut Off Our Hair."
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Chrystos is a Native American
(Menominee/Lithuanian), born in 1946 and raised in San Francisco.
A political activist and speaker, as well as an artist and writer,
she is self-educated. Her tireless momentum is directed at better
understanding how issues of colonialism, genocide, class and
gender affect lives of women and Native people. Chrystos makes
Bainbridge Island in the Pacific Northwest her home.
This site hosts the poems "Shame On!"
and "I Am Not Your Princess."
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