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So sometimes things do pop up just when you need them. Here I was feeling all discouraged and poor me writer. Wallowing in my pity party and being kind of a big jerk to people who would try to tell me otherwise. and then I see this and am all... ok. That was in fact totally self indulgent and this is much more exciting. I am in the anthology below and it's coming out right around my birthday. :o omg.



It's So You explores the intersection between personal style and personal expression through lively personal essays by thirty-five top women writers—including two artists. In a culture that uses oppressive beauty standards to influence and determine what’s hot, how do women manage to find their own distinct style, and to delight in fashion, without feeling like they’re selling out, or buying into consumerism?

It's So You emerges from third-wave feminism, which celebrates not only the frivolity and playfulness of women’s fashion, but also the daring aesthetics of sex workers, out queers, and fashionistas. Contributors include Six Feet Under Producer Jill Soloway, transgender icon Kate Bornstein, Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, poet Diane di Prima, NPR regular Sandra Tsing Loh, novelist Beth Lisick, Calvin Klein model Jenny Shimizu, [profile] goodbadgirl, [profile] sherilyn, actress Laura Fraser, Meliza Banales and writer/herstorian Trina Robbins (and me).

From the haute couture houses of the ruling class to DIY girls who make restorative clothing and create their own hodgepodge style, It's So You is the first book to explore women’s ambivalence, suspicion, indulgence, and love of fashion on every level.

Date: 2007-07-09 05:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pantryslut.livejournal.com
woot! That's a really exciting line-up.

Date: 2007-07-09 06:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] red-eyed-soul.livejournal.com
that's awesome! congrats!

Date: 2007-07-09 06:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cindymonkey.livejournal.com
thanks - my soon to be houseguest - I AM SO EXCITED

Date: 2007-07-09 06:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cindymonkey.livejournal.com
yea! there are other LJ people in it too, but i haven't seen the final list - so hopefully they will call themselves out here so we can throw the roses of accolades at their feet.

Date: 2007-07-09 06:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nerak-g.livejournal.com
Cool for You!
(ganked from Myles title)

=)
Yay, published, yay antho!

Date: 2007-07-09 07:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] goodbadgirl.livejournal.com
Oh rock! I was wondering when it was gonna come up. Add my name to the list right next to Jenny Shimizu....we're in the "people who have fucked Angelina Jolie" section of the book. ;)

Date: 2007-07-09 07:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cindymonkey.livejournal.com
woot! thanky!

Date: 2007-07-09 07:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cindymonkey.livejournal.com
name dutifully added.

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