Death of Dorothy Allison, feminist, lesbian, white trash and valuable writer – Libération

The cult author of “The Story of Bone” and “Trash” died at the age of 75 in her Californian home.

She won't have to see Trump take back the White House. Dorothy Allison, lesbian writer and feminist activist, white trash self-proclaimed, valuable voice of the American queer counterculture, died Wednesday November 6 at the age of 75 in her Californian home after years of health problems, her agent confirmed with Liberation. The information had been shared a few hours earlier on Twitter by the writer Sapphire, leaving a whole host of admirers, and especially admirers, stunned.

Born April 11, 1949 in Greenville, South Carolina, Dorothy Allison was the “bastard daughter of a young white woman from a desperately poor family, who had dropped out of college the year before, worked as a waitress, and had turned fifteen just a month before giving birth to me.” It was even there “the central element of [s]for life”, she wrote in Trash, a “very ordinary American history” with all that this implies of poverty, social and gender violence, which she will continue to dissect throughout her life in her work.

“I was hungry, desperately hungry”

As a child, Dorothy Allison devoured every book she could get her hands on. “I was hungry, desperately hungry,” she said in a 1995 interview. But he has to hide, reading is not tolerated