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unpublished memoir, exploring the surprising ways their personal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.
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