{"product_id":"eating-fire-my-life-as-a-lesbian-avenger-9780816691166","title":"Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Kelly Cogswell plunged into New York's East Village in 1992, she had just come out. An ex-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 fire--literally--in front of the White House.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once streetwise and wistful, \u003ci\u003eEating Fire\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Cogswell's 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 love--several times over. After the Lesbian Avengers imploded, Cogswell describes how she became a pioneering citizen journalist, cofounding the \u003ci\u003eGully\u003c\/i\u003e online magazine with the groundbreaking goal of offering \"queer views on everything.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first in-depth account of the influential Lesbian Avengers, \u003ci\u003eEating Fire\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the group's relationship to the queer art and activist scene in early '90s 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 insider's look at the process and perils of street activism, Kelly Cogswell's memoir is an uncompromising and ultimately empowering story of creative resistance against hatred and injustice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816691166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.51h x 5.56w x 0.61d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/10\/2014\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kelly J. Cogswell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52181264302261,"sku":"9780816691166","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_9652114d-0579-4115-9140-6756cac50b11.jpg?v=1768922418","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/eating-fire-my-life-as-a-lesbian-avenger-9780816691166","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}