Dorothy Allison grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, the first child of a fifteen-year-old unwed mother who worked as a waitress. Now living in Northern California with her partner Alix and her teenage son, Wolf Michael, she describes herself as a feminist, a working class story teller, a Southern expatriate, a sometime poet and a happily born-again Californian.
For more information about Dorothy Allison please visit www.femmecollective.com.
Our Call for Submissions is now open. Deadline for submissions is May 1st, 2008.
Following our Femme2006 conference in San Francisco, where over 400 femmes and allies gathered for three days of workshops, panels, and performances, we again invite community members, artists, academics, homemakers, geeks, techies, activists, femmes of all kinds, and their allies to continue the conversation by participating in Femme 2008 in Chicago as presenters and participants.
Registration is now open! The early registration rate is $60.00 until May 30th, 2008.
I so want to go to this and now even more. I think I will register and then just cross my fingers. It’s right in the middle of other things like the RWA conference and moving. sigh.
Dorothy Allison has long been an outspoken radical feminist and I have long been a fan of hers. To hear her speak would be a dream come true. I have it in my memory (which is so faulty that I don’t trust it) that she was an ex-pat for a while. Or that she lived in Mexico because the US wouldn’t let her back in. I can’t remember and haven’t googled it yet.