A legend of her field, Taormino told Jezebel she got a lot of rejections for this book: 'I began to think, 'Is the sex stuff too much?''
Taormino’s remarkable as a second-generation queer person—this is rare, when you consider that many hallmarks of queer culture and the notion of chosen family result from looking outside of one’s biological family. Taormino writes of spending time with her father in Provincetown, absorbing his love of Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand, enduring slights from his partner, and living through his eventual death of AIDS.
What was the calculus that went into the very sparing use of the unpublished memoir your father wrote and gave to you?There was a book that I envisioned like a dual memoir. Part of the issue is that [my father’s] memoir ends in 1973, when I’m 2 years old and he’s about to leave my mother, so there’s two decades of our lives together missing, from his point of view. So first of all, it was kind of a timeline problem.
“mainstream writing out there about butch/femme dynamics, about kinky dynamics, about queer daddy/girl play—it’s not like I have a lot of models here to go by.”Even though that part of the memoir was painful, I thought you were fair to your father’s widower. I thought you were also very fair to Matt, the student teacher in your high school that you had sex with.
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