For those who are too young to know the GrandmaMoseX of the GLBT community, Artemis Smith, also now known as Artemis Smith Morpurgo, is a contemporary of Andy Warhol and a still-living activist poet, playwright, futurist, and digital-media artist. This re-issue contains a continuation of her MemoirsM mementos, plus two ground-breaking Information Science papers on Sexology circulated throughout the Gay underground in the 1960s.
EXCERPT FROM A REVIEW by Mel Keegan of GLBT Bookshelf ODD GIRL REVISITED is a work of 'rare scholarship'-- so much so that it's not the "easy read" the mass market is looking for these days. It's a window on a world which is gone, and the savvy reader's brows will be popping up in many places, for many reasons ... as much an invaluable glimpse into its times as into the lives and hearts of gay/Gay girls who grew up in the decades before most of us were born.) The strength of the book is in its "realness." And I know that's not a word; but it's what I want to say. The people, places and events in this book are real. Fantastic as it seems (and the first 20pp, the backstory of the author's childhood, do seem more in keeping with a big-budget HBO Movie of the Week!) these events took place. As the Chinese curse goes, "May you live in interesting times." ... Recommended for the well-read; for the reader who isn't using the encyclopedia to prop up the DVD stand; for the writer researching the period'-- with or without any interest in gay culture of the twentieth century. Ideally suited to the American social and cultural studies, and of great interest as a window on the recent past. Also should catch the attention of executives at HBO, who might easily be captivated with the first 20pp, buy the movie rights and never even read the rest of the book! (One can see it now, starring Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill and Viggo Mortensen...) --BookWorld.editme.com GLBT Bookshelf, December 6, 2010 Artemis Smith is a prominent strategist of the 1950-60's Rainbow civil rights coalition movements, author of the pulp fiction best sellers 'Odd Girl, ' 'The Third Sex.' and 'This Bed We Made.' This unexpurgated original version is an indispensable addition to every Women's Studies, GLBT and 20th Century literary archive. The Author is an established professional Philosopher, Poet, Artist and Futurist. 'Odd Girl' originally titled 'Anne Loves Beth' has been cited since 1959 by nearly all the name reviewers of the genre and is a recognized classic in sustained demand by modern researchers.
A new color edition of this classic underground sexology best seller by ArtemisSmith a/k/a Prof. Annselm L.N.V. Morpurgo and Billie Taulman, with additional 1970's suppressed academic papers in the Philosophy of Sex and Love in the new Appendix, plus ArtemisSmith's ATHEIST MANIFESTO and the key essay on the explication of Human Consciousness under Information Science.The following arguments, presented to all the Religions, are contained in the papers included in the Appendix:21st Century philosophical thought has come to the following revised World View:|The Observer is the Center of the Universe||The Observer does Logic and Mathematics, which are the languages of Thought||All Thought is Linguistic and therefore Intersubjective|All Human Experience is |Linguistic| and scientific truth is therefore necessarily grounded in |The Intersubjective Observer| |Logic| has been shown to be merely one suburb of |Mathematics||Mathematics| tolerates and 'negotiates' |Paradox| by taking advantage of internal inconsistencies such as the existence of irrational numbers.|Mathematics| since Godel has been shown to be an imperfect and open system. This negates the possibility of Perfection and opens up the |Multiverse| |Mathematical Language| existentially notates the |'stuff' of Chaos| and encompasses 'all that can be spoken.' Beyond 'all that can be spoken' is |Necessary Silence|'All that can be spoken' is both social and quantifiable, including the reflection of |Individual Mind| upon |Itself| which is |Self-Consciousness| |System Architecture| may limit |Present Form| but it is not to be confused with |Spirit| which is |Self-Conscious Identity-through-Change||Individual Identity| rests on growing social values and relations and persists in hyperspace and can shape-shift beyond |Initial System Architecture|The immediate socio-political implications of this view are that:1. |Gender| is accidental and irrelevant to |Spirit|2. |Human Identity| can shape-shift beyond |Biological Existence|
Before Stonewall! Before ?Woodstock!? Before ?Oh, Calcutta!? ?there was ?ArtemisSmith's FOR IMMEDIATE DEMOLITION? Mass-Market Titled: ?This Bed We Made? Get Ready for a REALLY WILD ROMP In a drug-free early 1960?s! This is the book where it all began - Where both ?Straights? and ?Gays? joined ?The Rainbow? And worked together for World Peace and Gender Freedom! This 2014 Full Color Author's Re-Issue also contains ArtemisSmith's original version of "Hark the Pterodactyl" in the Appendix, and an Afterword regarding ArtemisSmith's new doctrine on the Information Science concept of Gender Freedom offered to the religious community.
Annselm L.N.V. Morpurgo is a contemporary of Andy Warhol and is a still-living Poet, Futurist and Scientific Philosopher, and 1950's Founder of the Unisex Movement. Also known as ArtemisSmith, besides operating her own successful off-Broadway workshop that gave rise to many of today's Film and Television celebrities, in the 1950-60's, she was a prominent strategist of the Rainbow and GLBT civil rights movements. Besides her many and diverse literary offerings, ArtemisSmith Morpurgo is also an accomplished artist and sculptor, and the author of the first Information Science explication of Self-Consciousness contiguous with the physical sciences. This Collectors Edition of ArtemisSmith's ground-breaking illuminated multicolor, multifont satirical long-poem, combines Pop Art with Advertising Art and Scientific Calculus to present the Reader with Nietzschean 'calligraphic eye-candy' and 'chicken soup for the Soul'. Grandma, in a gut-wrenching introspective 'thought experiment' turns both Cosmology and Human History on its head in Swiftian fashion to provide a new Atheology compatible with the Unified Information Sciences. The Appendix reprints ArtemisSmith's entire 1989 trend-setting science fiction epic: "SKEETS: the new Frankenstein chronicles" in renewed and enhanced illuminated calligraphic splendor.
When a little rest and relaxation turns into something more… Julia Maguire can’t wait to spend two weeks in Hawaii with her best friends. She’s been dreaming about this trip for years and all she wants is to lay on a sandy beach with an icy cocktail in her hand. But those vacation goals change the moment she meets Reed Baxter. Reed is a busy doctor with family demands. She’s in Hawaii to let go, not find love, and she’s not interested in any commitment. Adding a little heat to the vacation seems like a good idea as long as there aren’t expectations for anything more.
First Digital Edition; Grier Rating: A*** This is the true-life story of what happens when scores of young girls live intimately together in a French military barracks. Many of these girls, utterly innocent and inexperienced, meet other women who have lived every type of existence. Their problems, their temptations, their fights and failures are those faced by all women who are forced to live together during dangerous and stressful times. The girls who chose Tereska Torres, the author, as their confidante poured out to her their most intimate feelings, their secret thoughts. With all of its revelations and tenderness, Women’s Barracks is an important book because it tells a story that had never been truly told before--the story of women in war. It also has the special distinction of being the first “lesbian pulp” novel ever published and became a record-breaking bestseller. This autobiographical novel takes place in London, England during World War II. The terror of the V-1 and V-2 rocket bombings, and the resulting fires and destruction, are an unknown experience to most readers. The women enduring these events were not even 20 years old when they first arrived. Many volunteered to be there. They were French, or of French heritage, and wanted to be part of the effort to help protect France from invasion by the Nazis. Throughout it all, passions flare, long-standing taboos are tossed to the wind, and passionate relationships are begun between older, more experienced butch officers and the young, inexperienced femme girls under their charge. In her telling of these women’s stories, Torres remains nonjudgmental of the lesbian relationships these women explored. Perhaps as a result, Women’s Barracks was banned in several states for being obscene. The House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials denounced the book in 1952 as an illustration of how the newly emerging paperback industry was breeding and promoting moral depravity. By today’s standards, of course, the book is somewhat tame; however, the eroticism and honesty with which Torres writes immerses the reader in the love, tenderness, loyalty and passion that women share with each other.
Joy's career comes second only to her son. Between her eight-year-old and curating an art museum, there isn't room for much else in her life... including fun, flings, or love. When Joy meets the babysitter's mom, her priorities suddenly shift. Samantha is an older woman with sad eyes and commitment issues. She's the last person Joy should try to date... but somehow all Joy can think about is making her smile.Will Samantha allow Joy into her life - or stay joyless forever?
First Digital Edition; Grier Rating: A** Desire and torment swept through Joyce's trembling young body at the gentle touch of Edith's cool hand upon her face. She had never felt like this before. It frightened her ... and filled her with a terrible excitement! Joyce is a young woman off to her first year at college at prestigious all-girl school. She gets along well with her roommate, Mary Jean, who is somewhat boy-crazy. Joyce begins to think there’s something wrong with her… that perhaps she is frigid… because she has no interest in boys. Then she meets Edith, the dean of the college, and falls head over heels in love. Suddenly all that mattered to her was a woman twice her age. Whisper Their Love is a haunting and courageous story of how a young girl's hunger for love leads her to discover passions she didn’t know existed. Only a writer as skillful and sensitive as Valerie Taylor could have taken such a daring subject and fashioned it into such a stirring a novel.
