Bøger af Elaina Martin

In Dyke II, A Memoir, renowned event producer, music director, and community organizer Elaina Martin pries open the hidden doors first hinted at in book one of her Dyke series.Through the lens of her own life and relationships, as a proud butch Dyke, Martin draws readers along unique yet queerly familiar paths. From her experience of coming out amidst the xenophobic attitudes of Northern Ontario, through the decadence of 90s club life and into the rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods of Ottawa, Martin reflects on the ways queerness as a public experience was accessed and ultimately fought for prior to the internet's rewiring of social connectivity. The Decadent '90s, offers us a glimpse into Martin's brief stint as a corrections officer, her development as a stage performer, and ultimately her self-styling as an event producer, documenting the way queer relationships and community were formed in a time when the sense of building from the ground up was a social reality that inevitably produced a bumpy ride. Chronicling sex, music, drugs, friendship, joy, betrayal, and even bank robbery, Martin here shines her spotlight on a wildly significant period in Canadian queer history, and what we can learn from it.

Event producer, music director and community organizer Elaina Martin has, over the past three decades, become widely known in Eastern Ontario, bolstering queer representation, community sustainability and the arts. In this soulful narrative, she shares how she grew into these roles, and what she learned along the way. Her descriptions of the eras, personalities, and local cultures she has known so intimately convey not only the life of one butch, queer musician and writer, but explore the meanings of tragedy, resilience, queer life, contention, forgiveness, and family.From being abused and eventually outed in her northern Ontario town, to singing and partying her way through the best and worst of Ottawa's gay venues at the height of 1990s decadence, to ultimately finding harmony and love, her story will break your heart and ignite your spirit."Elaina Martin warns you in the first few pages of her introductory memoir. You're going to read about some very difficult things and she's willing to talk about the mistakes she made on her road to empowerment. You have no idea. You're not ready." - Natalie Hanna, "Publisher, battleaxe press (small press poetry)."