Stacey May Fowles

Be Good, a novel

Quill and Quire: “…the novel offers a thoughtful examination of sexuality, relationships, and what it means to tell the truth.”

This Magazine: “…probably the most finely realized small press novel to come out of Canada in the last year…Thank you, Stacey May Fowles.”

Fear of Fighting, a novel with illustrations by Marlena Zuber

Eye Weekly: “Paired well with Zuber’s drawings, Fowles words are simple and elegant. She has perfectly bottled the ennui and cruel narcissism of people old enough to have bad credit but still young enough to puke outside of bars. Even if you’re comfortably past that age, Fowles’ book is worth the sobering read. After all, we’re never as far from our worst years as we think we are.”

She’s Shameless: Women write about growing up, rocking out and fighting back, co-edited with Megan Griffith-Greene

Broken Pencil: “With She’s Shameless, the current publisher and editor of Shameless magazine take aim at the incredibly unrealistic demands put upon young girls and women by the likes of popular fashion and style magazines like Vogue, Seventeen and Elle. Both the book and the magazine attempt to reassure young girls that there is something more to life than the standards of unthinking, apolitical, apathetic and beauty-obsessed consumption offered by the mainstream media. Above all, it seeks to rid young women of feelings of shame-for their bodies, sexuality, gender, outlook and so forth.”

Yes Means Yes: Visions Of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti

Contributor, “The Fantasy of Acceptable ‘Non-Consent’: Why the Female Sexual Submissive Scares Us (and Why She Shouldn’t)”

Bitch Magazine: “The strength of this book lies in the diversity of voices collected in its pages… They rant and cuss and quote vulgar song lyrics. And they contradict each other. But while it sometimes seems disjointed, the book’s many different and contradictory versions of the feminist experience ultimately make it more useful.”

First Person Queer: Who We Are (So Far) by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel 

Contributor, “The Straight Girl At The Party”

Kirkus Review: “The collection winningly celebrates differences rooted in a variety of ways to the mutable boundaries of sexuality and gender…. Whether read in a couple of sittings or savored essay by essay, this is an eye-opening vista on diversity.”

Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules Of Gender and Conformity by Matt Bernstein Sycamore 

Contributor, “Friction Burn”

Time Out New York: “Providing tons of those increasingly rare moments when you realize you are actually ingesting fresh ideas, Mattilda’s collection of essays… deals with notions of passing — as American, able-bodied, gay, straight, man, woman, neither and other identities — and it’s a must-read for anyone interested in the ever-growing permutations of ‘queer.’”

Posted: July 18th, 2010 under Reviews, Be Good, Fear of Fighting, Published Works, She's Shameless.
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