On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 Format:Paperback Blacklips Performance Cult

Blacklips Performance Cult

from his childhood in East Harlem to his own heartbreaking experiences with HIV/AIDS

A tragedy sent Harley Shepherd running to the sleepy fishing village of Rockport

Finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction and the 2021 Bisexual Book Awards

In creating this historic study

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 Format:Paperback Blacklips Performance CultAt issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and which refuses to be included or contained in the culture of passivity.