Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World without Rape, edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti is in stores now! I contributed an essay, “How Do You Fuck a Fat Woman?” to it, and I just got my copies the other day — the book is awesome. (Even though I realize now that I said “fuck” way too many times in my essay. And I say that as someone whose typical response to “Why do you swear so much?” is “Fuck off.”) Go buy a dozen copies, please.
You should also check out the Yes Means Yes blog, to which I do not contribute, because — as you may have noticed — I can barely keep up with this blog. Lots of the fab contributors are active over there, so it deserves a spot in your Google Reader.
Finally, check out the event listings for launch party/reading dates in several American cities. I’ll be at both the Boston events (January 29) and the Chicago one (February 19), so I hope to see lots of Shapelings there!
Yay!
I ordered a copy last week, and got it yesterday. Score! I had no idea you’d written an essay for that – I just started reading this blog recently.
Your response to “Why do you swear so much” is priceless. :)
Hope there’s a tour stop in Austin!
Me too earlgrey!
Hooray! Kate, you are taking off. I’ve got the Boston date in my calendar, and I’d love it if we could get together while you’re in town.
Woo-hoo! I wish my B&N coupon wasn’t expired. But I’ll get it anyway at some point. :)
ZOMG congratulations.
NY dates in the calendar.
(Is there a post on this up also over on the NING Shapelings community?)
Kate, you should put this as an event over on Ning!
Hooray, congratulations, and that book looks awesome. Also, I’ve been known to freely throw the f-word around myself and don’t consider it that fucking big of a deal. Fuck!
Bought it and read it and it’s AMAZING. Kate, your piece was perfect – I cried reading the last few paragraphs. And you said “fuck” exactly the right number of times. :)