Kate Harrad

Very helpful for me as I prepare to deal with bi-phobia and bi-erasure in an LGBTQ/queer history class that I am presently teaching.

My confession: I have taught this course ten times over the last twenty years, but I don't feel that I've ever really adequately dealt with bisexual perspectives and experiences.

Although this is clearly a British book, prepared and written for a readership that is British, I feel that there are sufficient trans-atlantic commonalities to make it a worthwhile read for those interested in North American gender culture and experiences.… (meer)

I know a lot of the people who contributed to this, so I'm biased, but I thought this was an excellent collection of interesting essays about bisexuality in Britain. It was very useful for standing up to the idea that you have to do certain things to be a 'proper' bisexual, and was warmly welcoming. It does feel a bit like 'the people at bicon wrote a book about being bisexual', which is a slightly biased view - but they've worked hard to make sure the perspective is as wide as possible, with BME bisexuals, disabled bisexuals, older bisexuals and religious bisexuals amongst many others all talking about their experiences. And they manage to talk about polyamory and the correlation with the bi scene without making it sound compulsory. A helpful read.… (meer)

All Lies and Jest: Saving the World for Fun and Profit

Kate Harrad

Ghostwoods Books 2011

A fun and freaky jaunt through London’s modern vampire/goth scene with a character who has recently escaped her parents’ home and the clutches of the Resurrected Church that has all but taken over society. Sin and salvation combine when church members whip each other for religiously kinky reasons “climaxing with an impressive image of the post-false-Rapture world.”

Oh, what fun you’ll have with this one! I was provided with a review copy by the publisher…a special thanks to Ghostwoods for that gift!

A sinfully delicious 4 stars

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