![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, until I typed out these words - A Body, Undone - I did not notice the significance of the comma in Crosby’s title. The advent of sex positive lesbian culture of the 1990s was not the first thing I expected to be thinking about when I began reading Christina Crosby’s book A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain. We did not stop to consider the ways accident, illness, or just time, might alter everything we took for granted then. The body, our bodies, in love and in sex, named themselves in this dance, these clothes, these moments. Queerness, in our lives back then, was an explosion of embodied joy, dancing hip to groin, our arms around each other’s necks, my exposed cleavage, her big metal belt buckle, sweat glistening on our new tattoos. In the late 20th-century American dyke world, where my longtime lover and I fell in love, our sexy, and sex-positively, gendered clothes were our rebellion, our liberation, and our becoming. ![]()
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