Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Reviews for 'When We Were Outlaws'


Check out some of these Reviews for 'When We Were Outlaws: a Memoir of Love & Revolution'
"A riveting unique first hand telling of a dangerous, fractious, creative lesbian time, the lesbian feminist 70s with their messy, sexy, bold social and personal visions live again on Cordova's pages; she was thick in the middle of things, as a journalist, as an activist, as a lover."
--Joan Nestle, editor of A Persistent Desire, A Femme Butch Reader and GENDERqUEER, Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary.
"For LGBT people who care about activism, especially those young enough to have no memory of those iconic times, Córdova's "memoir of love and revolution" should be a must-read.”
--Patricia Nell Warren - Bilerico Project
"When We Were Outlaws is content-rich and driven by a compelling plot. These two things make reading When We Were Outlaws a joy."
--Julie R. Enszer -
Lambda Literary Review
"When We Were Outlaws, is such an important addition to the literary cannon of LGBT non-fiction. The book manages to be captivating, heartbreaking, and gratifying all at once.”
--Diane Anderson Minshall - The Advocate
PLUS just out... an Interview with Jerry L. Wheeler / Out in Print about Outlaws - he posed some very thought provoking questions about activism, writing (& love!)

1 comment:

Joni.T said...

The german blog L-talk published a review of this impressing, and inspiring, and well-written, and wonderful book:
http://www.l-talk.de/vergangenes/jeanne-cordova-when-we-were-outlaws.html
In the review, I write about one of my current No 1-topics: whether new generations of women are citing their foremothers' achievements while heading for new goals and moving it forward, or, worse, starting up the same thing again and again and simply repeating the whole lesbian feminist story former activists meant to have gone through for them - a weired version of lesbian Groundhog Day.