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December 21, 2004-Toronto

Toronto Women’s Bookstore Presents: LESBIANAS LATINOAMERICANAS

An evening with Juanita Ramos, editor of Compañeras: Latina Lesbians and tatiana de la tierra, author of chapbooks Porcupine Love & Other Tales from my Papaya and Píntame una mujer peligrosa/Paint Me a Dangerous Woman.

SATURDAY JANUARY 29, 2005 6 p.m.
Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord St.
Free event, wheelchair accessible, all are welcome to attend

Compañeras: Latina Lesbians, edited by Juanita Ramos, is a collection in Spanish and English of poems, oral histories, interviews, letters, short stories, essays, and art by 63 Latin lesbians born in 14 Latin American countries and the U.S. The collection features the words of women who speak honestly about their relationships with their families, friends, lovers, their coming out experiences, and their participation in various social movements.

Juanita Ramos is a pseudonym for Juanita Diaz, author of Gender, Ethnicity and the State: Latina and Latino Prison Politics (1996) and Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: In Their Own Words (forthcoming in 2006).

Tatiana de la tierra is a bilingual bicultural queer Colombiana who writes about sexual evolution, panocha pleasure and flesh-and-blood pain. The chapbook Porcupine Love and Other Tales from my Papaya (Chibcha Press, 2003) is a bilingual collection of prose and creative non-fiction. Píntame una mujer peligrosa (Chibcha Press, 2004) is a collection of life-positive and sex-positive poetry in Spanish. de la tierra is also the author of For the Hard Ones: A Lesbian Phenomenology/ Para las duras: Una fenomenología lesbiana (Calaca/Chibcha Press, 2002).

This event is co-sponsored by Latin American Coalition Against Racism (LACAR).