'doctor laura, sit on my face'

okay, i'm not just being provocative. that's the name of an essay in a book i'm waiting to get, that's revolting! queer strategies for resisting assimilation. it has a wicked good review from bear's reviews at butchDykeBoy, a boston-based trans/genderqueer collective website that also sponsors a monthly get-together, genderCrash! (apparently we queers like! exclamation! points!) in fact, genderCrash just celebrated its fifth anniversary this month, though i didn't make it to the evening.

anyway, i was reading bear's review, which has a great quote:

I was also glad [...] to get a new favorite quote from Rocko Bulldagger's instant classic essay[,] "Dr. Laura, Sit On My Face," which sums up much of what I like about many of my favorite people: "Being a threat is sexy."

if you are curious about the book but can't be arsed to hit the link, here's what the book's description says:

As the gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value, writes Matt Bernstein Sycamore, aka Mattilda, editor of That's Revolting! This timely collection of essays by writers such as Patrick Califia, Kate Bornstein, Carol Queen, Charlie Anders, Benjamin Shepard, and others shows what the new queer resistance looks like.

Intended as a fistful of rocks to throw at the glass house of Gaylandia, the book challenges the commercialized, commoditized, and hyperobjectified view of gay/queer identity projected by the mainstream (straight and gay) media by exploring queer struggles to transform gender, revolutionize sexuality, and build community/family outside of traditional models. Essays include "Dr. Laura, Sit on My Face," "Gay Art Guerrillas," "Legalized Sodomy Is Political Foreplay," and "Queer Parents: An Oxymoron or Just Plain Moronic?"

wicked good, as i said above. that's what we say here in boston, and it's a damn sight less annoying than that frikken word hella, which will earn you a beating 'round the ears if you say it around me.

goddamn california hippies.