Neon Girls

Download or read book Neon Girls written by Jennifer Worley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NPR's Best Books of 2020 "Galvanizing and urgent....a slice of queer urban history and a necessary rethinking of sex work as a site of collective labor struggle." –National Public Radio A riveting true story of a young woman’s days stripping in grunge-era San Francisco where a radical group of dancers banded together to unionize and run the club on their own terms. When graduate student Jenny Worley needed a fast way to earn more money, she found herself at the door of the Lusty Lady Theater in San Francisco, auditioning on a stage surrounded by mirrors, in platform heels, and not much else. So began Jenny’s career as a stripper strutting the peepshow stage as her alter-ego “Polly” alongside women called Octopussy and Amnesia. But this wasn’t your run-of-the-mill strip club—it was a peepshow populated by free-thinking women who talked feminist theory and swapped radical zines like lipstick. As management’s discriminatory practices and the rise of hidden cameras stir up tension among the dancers, Jenny rallies them to demand change. Together, they organize the first strippers’ union in the world and risk it all to take over the club and run it as a co-operative. Refusing to be treated as sex objects or disposable labor, they become instead the rulers of their kingdom. Jenny’s elation over the Lusty Lady’s revolution is tempered by her evolving understanding of the toll dancing has taken on her. When she finally hangs up her heels for good to finish her Ph.D., neither Jenny nor San Francisco are the same—but she and the cadre of wild, beautiful, brave women who run the Lusty Lady come out on top despite it all. A first-hand account as only an insider could tell it, Neon Girls paints a vivid picture of a bygone San Francisco and a fiercely feminist world within the sex industry, asking sharp questions about what keeps women from fighting for their rights, who benefits from capitalizing on desire, and how we can change entrenched systems of power.

Download or read book 10 Things for Teen Girls written by Kate Conner and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2014 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the viral blog, 10 Things I Want to Tell Teenage Girls this new book speaks directly to teen girls about important topics they deal with every day. Companion title to the trade book Enough, 10 Things We Should Be Telling Teenage Girls.

Download or read book Agatha of Little Neon written by Claire Luchette and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree “An enchanting, sparkling book about the many meanings of sisterhood.” —Kristin Iversen, Refinery29 Claire Luchette's debut, Agatha of Little Neon, is a novel about yearning and sisterhood, figuring out how you fit in (or don’t), and the unexpected friends who help you find your truest self Agatha has lived every day of the last nine years with her sisters: they work together, laugh together, pray together. Their world is contained within the little house they share. The four of them are devoted to Mother Roberta and to their quiet, purposeful life. But when the parish goes broke, the sisters are forced to move. They land in Woonsocket, a former mill town now dotted with wind turbines. They take over the care of a halfway house, where they live alongside their charges, such as the jawless Tim Gary and the headstrong Lawnmower Jill. Agatha is forced to venture out into the world alone to teach math at a local all-girls high school, where for the first time in years she has to reckon all on her own with what she sees and feels. Who will she be if she isn’t with her sisters? These women, the church, have been her home. Or has she just been hiding? Disarming, delightfully deadpan, and full of searching, Claire Luchette’s Agatha of Little Neon offers a view into the lives of women and the choices they make.

Download or read book Beautiful Girls and Other Winning Plays from the 1996 Baker's Plays High School Playwriting Contest written by Catherine Keyser and published by Baker's Plays. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Local Man: Bad Girls #1 written by Tim Seeley and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2024-03-27 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inga Johanning, Local ManÕs ex-girlfriend and current archenemy, is on the run. Her journey will bring her face-to-face with her past, her crimes, and two of the other badass ladies in the Local Man UniverseÑ Neon peers through the pink fog to reveal her dark, violent origin. Frightside encounters Crossjack and tests the selfishness in his heart. A perfect jumping-on point for new readers and a must-have for fans who loveÑand especially those who hateÑthe long-gone days of blood-splattered breasts, big blades, and bad girls.Ê Features an epic triptych cover series by TIM SEELEY & BRIAN REBER.

Download or read book Girls on the Verge written by Vendela Vida and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-06-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first book, Vida explores a variety of rituals that girls have created or embraced in order to leave their childhoods behind. Vida doesn't just observe, she actively participates in some--going as far as experiencing sorority rush, a debutante ball, and a witches' coven, among others.

Download or read book Pressured 2 written by Santesha V. Patterson and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pressured 2: Tijuana By: Santesha V. Patterson Pressured 2: Tijuana is the continuation you have been waiting for of Pressured. Filled with adventure, romance, mystery, crime, respect, and the meaning of family, this exciting novel is sure to be for you. Be ready to cry, be shocked, and laugh out loud as you enjoy this final ride.