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In A Part of the Heart Can't Be Eaten, award-winning author, sex educator, filmmaker, and podcast host Tristan Taormino shares her coming-of-age story, revealing how her radical sexuality and unconventional career grew out of an extraordinary queer father-daughter relationship. Raised by a hard-working single mother on Long Island, Tristan got her sex ed from the 1980s TV show Solid Gold and The Joy of Sex. She spent summers at drag shows in Provincetown with her father, Bill, who had come out as gay in the mid-1970s. Her sexual identity bloomed during her college years at Wesleyan University, where she discovered her desire for butches and kinky sex.
Tristan's world began to fall apart when her dad was diagnosed with AIDS. After a series of devastating events, she moved to the messy, glorious world of 1990s New York City. In the midst of grief and depression, she helped change queer sexual subculture with her zine Pucker Up, her infamous The Village Voice column, and her editorship of legendary lesbian porn magazine On Our Backs. After the publication of her first book, The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, Tristan followed her own path that marked the beginning of her work as a trailblazing feminist pornographer.
After a lifetime of outrageous adventures, Tristan reflects on the bonds, loss, and mental-health struggles that shaped her. She weaves together history from her father's unpublished memoir, exploring the surprising ways their personal patterns converge and diverge. Bracingly emotional and erotically charged, A Part of the Heart Can't Be Eaten reveals the transformative power of queer pleasure and defiance.
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Conceived 1
Mrs. C's 12
Artichoke Hearts 15
First Time 22
The Bunk House 28
Buttercake 31
Sex Ed 38
The Beach House 45
Foxglove 52
P-town 57
The Priest's Brother 64
Mr. Meltme 69
Time in a Bottle 79
The Shower 83
Slutty 88
No Place Like Home 93
My Closet Has No Door 103
Queer Nation 108
Femme Is My Gender 115
Bombshell 122
Riley 129
Change of Plans 132
Daddy's Girl 142
Sailor's Berth 146
The Lesbians Upstairs 153
The Price of Our Redemption 162
Unity 172
Reggie Love 178
Paris 184
Scrambled Eggs with Bette Midler 193
The Wolf 199
Poppie 204
Fallout 207
A Night Like This 215
Pucker Up 219
Anal Sex Made Me 223
Adventure Girl 228
My Gay Boyfriend 234
Heart/Throb 239
Turn Me On 246
Buttman Is on the Phone 250
The Learning Curve 256
Feminist Gang Bang 264
Epilogue: My Father's Eyes 271
