Dorothy allison obituary
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The Queer Author Who Spoke the Plain Truth
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Dorothy Allison, the Bastard Out of Carolina author who died last week, modeled the power of honesty in her writing and her life.
By Lily Burana
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The first thing you need to know about the writer Dorothy Allison, who died last week at 75, is that she could flirt you into a stupor.
As a scrawny, know-it-all stripper girl in 1990s San Francisco, I was in a position to know this. I’d often see her at leather-dyke gatherings, and we had a hugging acquaintance, so I was happy to spot her at a party at a mutual friend’s house. She glided toward me in the kitchen and said, “I see you’ve got a hickey there, Miss Lily.” Dorothy raised her eyebrows and dropped her voice—just a little. The overhead light glinted in her long copper bangs. “Maybe you’ll let me give you a hickey sometime.” A proud southern femme, she knew what her drawl could do, and she worked it like a strut. I stood there in that kitchen, a 2
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Dorothy Allison
American writer (1949–2024)
For the Australian actress, see Dorothy Alison. For the detective, see Dorothy Allison (psychic). For the Scottish singer, see Dot Allison.
Dorothy Allison | |
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Allison at the 2011 Miami Book Fair | |
| Born | (1949-04-11)April 11, 1949 Greenville, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | November 6, 2024(2024-11-06) (aged 75) Guerneville, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | |
| Education | Florida Presbyterian College (BA) Florida State University The New School for Social Research (MA) |
| Subject | class struggle, child and sexual abuse, women, lesbianism, feminism, and family |
| Literary movement | Feminism |
| Spouse | Alix Layman (died 2022) |
| Children | 1 |
| dorothyallison.com (archived) | |
Dorothy Earlene Allison (April 11, 1949 – November 6, 2024) was an American writer whose writing focused on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism, and lesbianism.[1] She was a self-identified lesbian femme.[2] Allison won a number of awards for her writing, including several Lambda L
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Dorothy Allison, the lesbian feminist activist, beacon, poet, parent, and award-winning author of novels like Bastard Out of Carolinaand Cavedweller, has died at 75.
Allison wrote about a queer, poor South with dynamism and ferocious love. Her books tangoed frankly with historically taboo subjects, like sexual abuse, and spotlit characters under-glimpsed on the shelves of hegemony.
In the 70s, Allison fomented with a rising feminist movement. Of her activist years in Florida and D.C., Allison wrote, “Part of my role, as I saw it, was to be a kind of evangelical lesbian feminist, and to help develop a political analysis of this woman-hating society.”
In the 80s, her socially minded work met literary aspirations. Allison edited the feminist newspaper Amazing Grace, and contributed essays, poems, and editorial insight to pubs like Quest,Out/Look,The Village Voice, and Conditions. With Jo Arnone, Allison co-created the Lesbian Sex Mafia, “the oldest continuously running women’s BDSM support and education group in the country.”
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