My Peggy Munson interview at Feministing - please spread the word

This is my first interview for Feministing, about the controversy around Peggy Munson's novel Origami Striptease being censored from a Lambda Literary Awards finalist reading, and more

38-year-old writer Peggy Munson lives in "the wilds of western Massachusetts," where she's been penning lusty stories that are frequently featured in annual anthologies like Best Lesbian Erotica and Best American Erotica as well as other types of fiction and poetry. She's also the editor of the 2000 anthology Stricken: Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Haworth Press), and her disability plays a large role in her work, affecting everything her writing schedule to her writing style. Her first novel, Origami Striptease, a "lyrical love story between a writer and an enigmatic wanderer named Jack," was published in 2006 by San Francisco queer indie publisher Suspect Thoughts Press, after winning the 2004 Project Queerlit prize. Here, Munson explains via email just what "iambic meter" is, the connection between identity and language, why she's been "buoyed" by the queer writing community in the wake of having a video of her reading from her novel (which you can see, and salivate over, at blip.tv) censored from a Lambda Literary Award finalist reading (Origami is up for Best Lesbian Debut Fiction), and pushing the edges of the queer literary canon "to its breaking point."

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Also, Liz Henry at the Other magazine blog cracked me up:

I’m not getting why the Lambda Awards censored Origami Striptease from their reading. What, it’s got sex in it between ambiguously gendered people who talk melodramatically about their gender while sticking things into other things? “We only make religions out of things we cannot know” he said. He opened up the Braille of me, and read.” Then she slices her panties off with a knife. Isn’t that what being queer in San Francisco is more or less about?