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Bastard Out of Carolina Author Dorothy Allison Dies at 75
She was a voice for poor, rural queer people across the country.
Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina and Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature, has died. A staunchly pro-woman, pro-queer, pro-love voice in our society, Allison wrote poetry, novels, essays and what she called “smut.” She repped poor, rural queerness when at least two of those three things seemed mutually exclusive to outsiders. “To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary.
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