Eating Fire
Family Life on the Queer Side
Published on 13. September 2001
224 pages
978-1-897071-84-7 (ISBN)
Description
Eating Fire follows in the steps of Riordon's popular 1996 book Out our way, on gay and lesbian life in the country (BTL, 1996). This new set of tales examines the range in living patterns and relationships among queer families across Canada. Eating Fire illuminates the rich diversity in which people negotiate their personal and public identities. As in all his writing and radio work, Riordon brings to this book a subtle, direct, and vivid style. For Eating Fire he travelled widely, engaging in significant new research and speaking with hundreds of fascinating people. The resulting book is wanted and needed in classrooms, within queer communities, and among everyone hungry for knowledge about the wide range of Canadian families.
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Michael Riordon teaches writing, and has written four books of oral history: Our Way to Fight: Peace-Work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine, Eating Fire: Family Life on the Queer Side, An Unauthorized Biography of the World, and Out Our Way: Gay and Lesbian Life in Rural Canada. He lives near Picton, Ontario.
Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Fruitful Couplings
- 1: War and Peace, and Celery
- 2: Dancing with Widows
- 3: The Hired Hand
- 4: Finding Home
- 5: Where the Boys Are
- 6: I've Looked at Life from Both Sides Now
- 7: Mr Right
- 8: A Balance of Powers
- 9: Passage to India
- 10: War and Peace, and Bullshit
- Family Values
- 11: My Son the Queen
- 12: My Name in the Snow
- 13: Modern Parenting
- 14: The Parental Urge
- 15: One of the Family
- 16: Bumps and Bruises
- 17: Youth.org
- 18: Some Kindred Spirits
- 19: The Burden of Gravity
- Roles in the Hay
- 20: 0977056: A Life
- 21: Exodus
- 22: Out There
- 23: You Gotta Have a Gimmick
- 24: Roaming with Roxy
- 25: And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
- 26: Walks with Smudge
