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Cherry
Cherry, the queer novel they tried to ban
Cherry is the award-winning story of a woman leaving the straight world forever through her sexual adventures in queer community. It charts the conflict between progressive and conservative queers, overlooked by a supporting cast of old guard dykes and scenesters.
Originally published twenty years ago, Cherry is a postmodern novel written in an East London working class vernacular that depicts a world now lost. It is sociological smut influenced by queer theory, lesbian pulp, feminist sex writing, experimental dyke memoir, New Narrative and AIDS literatures of transgression as well as classic literary pornography.
In 2002 Cherry was seized by Canadian authorities who considered it obscene. It was subsequently released after an outcry.
New edition includes the shocking account of the book’s seizure, with bonus commentary:
- How obscenity laws hurt queers
- Class and gender politics in the publishing world
- How misogyny impacts queer sex literature
- Call to action for radical queer sex writing
Cherry is the award-winning story of a woman leaving the straight world forever through her sexual adventures in queer community. It charts the conflict between progressive and conservative queers, overlooked by a supporting cast of old guard dykes and scenesters.
Originally published twenty years ago, Cherry is a postmodern novel written in an East London working class vernacular that depicts a world now lost. It is sociological smut influenced by queer theory, lesbian pulp, feminist sex writing, experimental dyke memoir, New Narrative and AIDS literatures of transgression as well as classic literary pornography.
In 2002 Cherry was seized by Canadian authorities who considered it obscene. It was subsequently released after an outcry.
New edition includes the shocking account of the book’s seizure, with bonus commentary:
- How obscenity laws hurt queers
- Class and gender politics in the publishing world
- How misogyny impacts queer sex literature
- Call to action for radical queer sex writing
- GenresErotica
285 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 1, 2002
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December 8, 2025
3.5 stars rounded up to 4. Had more plot than I expected and I’d been meaning to read it for a long time, after reading a bunch of Charlotte Cooper’s other work.
It’s unlike any of her other work, in that it’s Very Raunchy.
It’s unlike any of her other work, in that it’s Very Raunchy.
February 27, 2025
Unsung hero , double fisting, hedonistic and totally hot
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