Eating FireAuthor :
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Published : Saturday 1 March 2014
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When Kelly Cogswell plunged into New Yorkâ?Ts East Village in 1992, she had just come out. An exâ?"Southern Baptist born in Kentucky, she was camping in an Avenue B loft, scribbling poems, and playing in an underground band, trying to figure out her next move. A couple of months later she was consumed by the Lesbian Avengers, instigating direct action campaigns, battling cops on Fifth Avenue, mobilizing 20,000 dykes for a march on Washington, D.C., and eating fireâ?"literallyâ?"in front of the White House. At once streetwise and wistful, Eating Fire is a witty and urgent coming-of-age memoir spanning two decades, from the Culture War of the early 1990s to the War on Terror. Cogswellâ?Ts story is an engaging blend of picaresque adventure, how-to activist handbook, and rigorous inquiry into questions of identity, resistance, and citizenship. It is also a compelling, personal recollection of friendships and fallings-out and of finding true loveâ?"several times over. After the Lesbian Avengers imploded, Cogswell describes how she became a pioneering citizen journalist, cofounding the Gully online magazine with the groundbreaking goal of offering â?oqueer views on everything.â??The first in-depth account of the influential Lesbian Avengers, Eating Fire reveals the groupâ?Ts relationship to the queer art and activist scene in early â?T90s New York and establishes the media-savvy Avengers as an important precursor to groups such as Occupy Wall Street and La Barbe, in France. A rare insiderâ?Ts look at the process and perils of street activism, Kelly Cogswellâ?Ts memoir is an uncompromising and ultimately empowering story of creative resistance against hatred and injustice.
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