A Part Of The Heart Can't Be Eaten Tristan Taormino Memoir

A Part Of The Heart Can't Be Eaten Tristan Taormino Memoir is the coming-of-age story of an award-winning author, sex educator, filmmaker and podcast host, published by Duke University Press. It traces how a radical sexuality and an unconventional career grew out of an extraordinary queer father-daughter relationship.

Raised by a hard-working single mother on Long Island, Taormino got her early sex education from the 1980s TV show Solid Gold and The Joy of Sex. Summers meant drag shows in Provincetown with her father, Bill, who came out as gay in the mid-1970s. At Wesleyan University her identity bloomed as she discovered her desire for butches and kink.

When her father was diagnosed with AIDS, her world began to fall apart. She moved to the messy, glorious New York City of the 1990s and, amid grief and depression, helped reshape queer sexual subculture through her zine Pucker Up, her Village Voice column and her editorship of the lesbian magazine On Our Backs. Her first book, The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, marked the start of her work as a trailblazing feminist pornographer.

Throughout A Part Of The Heart Can't Be Eaten Tristan Taormino Memoir, she weaves in history from her father's unpublished memoir, exploring the surprising ways their lives converge and diverge while reflecting honestly on bonds, loss and mental health.

Key Features

• Personal memoir from sex educator and feminist filmmaker Tristan Taormino
• Explores a queer father-daughter relationship across decades
• Chronicles 1990s New York queer culture and publishing
• Draws on her father's unpublished memoir
• Candid reflections on grief, AIDS and mental health

Specifications

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Material: Paper
• Cover Color: Green
• ISBN: 9781478020226

Emotional and erotically charged, A Part Of The Heart Can't Be Eaten Tristan Taormino Memoir reveals the transformative power of queer pleasure and defiance, making it a rewarding read for anyone interested in LGBTQ+ history, sexuality and memoir. It also makes a thoughtful gift for readers who follow Taormino's work.