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by Elly Bulkin

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Genres: Lesbian

110 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1990

About the author

Elly Bulkin, an activist since the 1970s, has worked in DARE (Dykes Against Racism Everywhere), Women Free Women in Prison, Women in Black (Boston), and other local political groups, and was a member of the National Feminist Task Force of New Jewish Agenda. She was a founding editor of two nationally distributed periodicals: Conditions, a lesbian-feminist literary magazine, and Bridges: A Journal for Jewish Feminists and Our Friends. She is co-author, with Minnie Bruce Pratt and Barbara Smith, of Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism (1984).

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Reviews

[Ezra · Rating 5 out of 5]

ok so I just read this incredible book, and I'm wondering why it barely exists - like zero reviews, none of my friends have read it... (except Max, who found it on the shelf at Lesbian Herstory Archives). I feel like this should be a classic in my community! Bulkin, a powerful writer and activist (who I know for her co-authored book Yours In Struggle) gives a deeply generous account of her process of dealing with sexual trauma and the way that her healing process related to her work as a writer, an activist, and how she impacted and was impacted by her intimate relationships with daughter, partner, and friends. Bulkin writes about her work in New Jewish Agenda and with the Jewish feminist journal Bridges, among other parts of her life. This book is a great comfort to read because of the brutal honesty as Bulkin looks at her own life, her choices, and her recovery process. You can find it for purchase online.