The Break-Up of On Our Backs

All revolutionary things turn their inventors inside out

Chapter 5: “Why On Our Backs broke up after turning the world on its ear, and how one falls down for seven times and gets up for eight”

• If it hadn’t been for the commie bookstores and the gay men’s bookstores, we never would have even gotten in the door of magazine distribution

• Barbara Grier’s jolly admonition: “Well, I don’t care but everyone I know thinks you should be assassinated.”

• The big deal wasn’t nudity, it was getting lesbians to show their faces, to use their names. It’s still a big deal. STILL A BIG DEAL.

• The punks versus the bankers

• Vanity Fair magazine, the most degrading photo shoot award

• Why has there never been a true (not faux) straight women’s sex magazine?

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I love listening to Tristan, talking with her, sharing our lives. I think you might be interested in her memoir coming out on 9/6, it’s called: A Part of the Heart Can’t Be Eaten

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Video of Susie and Tristan shot and edited by JD, from the Momentum Conference in Silver Spring, MD, April 3, 2011:  "Making Waves in Sexuality, Feminism & Relationship Through New Media."

I will post the next video excerpts the following dates:

Coming Up:

Chapter 6, August 18: “On the Popular but Unsubstantiated Rumor of an Usher Sex Tape”

Chapter 7, August 25: “The Unexpected Legacy of On Our Backs"

Chapter 8, September 1: “On Working Conditions in Porn”

Chapter 9, September 8: "I was the subject of a 13-person all-anal gang bang— but the most degraded I've ever felt in my life was working in mainstream television."

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