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FOR THE HARD ONES:
A LESBIAN PHENOMENOLOGY
PARA LAS DURAS: UNA FENOMENOLOGIA LESBIANA by/por
tatiana de la tierra
Cover art by Maya
Gonzalez
Lesbians leave their
footprints on other people's faces.
La lesbiana deja la huella de su pie sobre las caras de la gente. Poetic Prose. Lesbian
Erotica. Lesbian Identity.
This philosophical
exploration of the fantasy of being a lesbian is a poetic vision
from the heart of the matriarchy. FOR THE HARD ONES/PARA LAS DURAS
looks at different aspects of lesbianism, from the fingernails
and the tongue to the literature and the herstory. A lesbian manifesto
for hardcore dykes, baby dykes and wanna-be lesbians.
ISBN 0-9717035-2-3
/ 2002 / perfectbound / 160 pages
Review of Para las duras (en español) Reviews of For the Hard
Ones (English) Article from Curve Magazine
tatiana de la tierra website
Born in Villavicencio, Colombia in 1961 and raised in Miami, Florida,
tatiana de la tierra is a bilingual bicultural writer whose work
focuses on South American memory and reality, her experience as
an immigrant in this country, and lesbian phenomenology. De la
tierra has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the
University of Texas at El Paso and a Master of Library Science
from the University at Buffalo. She is the 2002 co-winner of the
New California Media Award for reporting on International Affairs
and the 2001 creative non-fiction winner of the Just Buffalo Literary
Awards. Her essays and short stories have been published since
1987, most recently in Herotica 7 (2002), This Bridge
We Call Home (2002), The Power of Language/El poder de
la palabra (2001), Gynomite: Fearless Feminist Porn
(2000), Pillowtalk Two (2000), Latino Heretics (1999),
Women on the Verge (1999), Chasing the American Dyke
Dream (1998) and periodicals such as Aztlán, El
Andar, Críticas, Mid-American Review, Flyway Literary Review,
and Cimarron Review. de la tierra was co-founder and editor
of the Latina lesbian magazines esto no tiene nombre (1991-1994)
and conmoción (1995-1996). She is currently a librarian
at the University at Buffalo.
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