Description
Take Me There is a passion project for Tristan Taormino, who presents erotica by, for, and about transfolk, FTMs, MTFs, genderqueers, gender outlaws, as well as two-spirit, intersex, and gender-variant people in her newest anthology. Among the diverse array of voices in Take Me There, one important theme running throughout the stories is the power of seeing and being seen. It’s not simply about passing, but about being acknowledged and desired in a sexual context. Affirmation and want collide in Andrea Zanin’s story of a baby butch dyke and the transwoman she picks up in a small-town café. Likewise, the main character in Helen Boyd’s “All Girl Action” longs to be touched as a woman by other queer women. The characters of these stories are ready and willing to go there — and they do, over and over again.
About the author(s)
Tristan Taormino is series editor of the annual collection Best Lesbian Erotica, for which she has collaborated with guest editors Heather Lewis, Jewelle Gomez, and Jenifer Levin. She is coeditor of A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution, and Ritual Sex, a collection of writing on sex, religion and spirituality. She is also publisher and editrix of the pansexual erotic magazine Pucker Up. Her writing appears in several publications and anthologies. The Advocate named her one of the Best and Brightest Gay and Lesbian People Under 30. She lives in Brooklyn.