Tristan Taormino

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Portrait of Tristan Taormino.

Tristan Taormino (born 9 May 1971) is an award-winning author, columnist, editor, and sex educator. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with her Bachelor's degree in American Studies from Wesleyan University in 1993. Tristan Taormino is the niece of author Thomas Pynchon.^[1]

1 Career
2 Sexual identity
3 Bibliography
- 3.1 As editor
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Career

Taormino is the author of three books, including the Firecracker Book Award winning The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women.

She is series editor of twelve volumes of the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology Best Lesbian Erotica, an annual anthology published by Cleis Press, for which she has collaborated with writers Heather Lewis, Jewelle Gomez, Jenifer Levin, Chrystos, Joan Nestle, Pat Califia, Amber Hollibaugh, Cheryl Clarke, Michelle Tea, and Felice Newman.

She is a columnist for The Village Voice, Taboo, and Velvet Park. She is the former editor of On Our Backs, the nation's oldest lesbian-produced lesbian sex magazine.

Taormino has been featured in over 200 publications including The New York Times, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Entertainment Weekly, Details, New York Magazine, Men's Health, and Playboy.

She has been named to several media lists, including Out Magazine's 100 Gay Success Stories of the Year and The Advocate's Best and Brightest Gay & Lesbian People Under 30.

She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, HBO's Real Sex, NBC's The Other Half, The Howard Stern Show, Loveline, Ricki Lake, MTV, Oxygen Network, Fox News, The Discovery Channel, and on over four dozen radio shows.

She lectures at top colleges and universities including Yale, Brown, Columbia, Smith, Vassar, Swarthmore, and New York University (NYU), where she speaks on gay and lesbian issues, sexuality and gender, and feminism. She teaches sex and relationship workshops around the world and provides private coaching sessions for individuals and couples.

[edit] Sexual identity

Tristan has stated on her sexuality, "I don't really identify with the label 'bisexual', nor does it feel like it accurately describes me...I see myself as queer, since queer to me is not just about who I love or lust, but it's about my culture, my community, and my politics. The truth is, even if I were with a heterosexual guy, I'd be a queer dyke."^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Bibliography

The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women (Cleis Press, 1997) ISBN 1-57344-028-0 – winner of a Firecracker Book Award and named Amazon.com's #1 Bestseller in Women's Sex Instruction in 1998.
Pucker Up: A Hands-on Guide to Ecstatic Sex (ReganBooks, 2001) – re-issued in paperback as Down and Dirty Sex Secrets (2003) ISBN 0-06-098892-4
True Lust: Adventures in Sex, Porn and Perversion (Cleis Press, 2002) ISBN 1-57344-157-0

[edit] As editor

Best Lesbian Erotica (Cleis Press, 1996-present) as Series Editor
Ritual Sex (Rhinoceros Books, 1996) co-editor
A Girl's Guide To Taking Over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution (St. Martin's Press, 1997) co-editor
Hot Lesbian Erotica (Cleis Press, 2005) editor