Enjoy Me Among My Ruins

Enjoy Me Among My Ruins draws together a kaleidoscopic archive of Juniper Fitzgerald's experiences as a queer sex-working mother, readings of Lolita and Frankenstein, and excerpts from childhood journal entries addressed to Gillian Anderson. Merging styles from autotheory to manifesto to teenage confession, Fitzgerald navigates the murky depths of contradictory narratives placed upon sex workers by conservative politicians and feminist thinkers alike, avoiding the false dichotomy between "exploitation" and "empowerment" often imposed on sex workers' lives. Nonlinear memoir excavates the brutalities of a white working-class upbringing in the nineties Midwest; Fitzgerald's first experiences with violence, sex, abuse, and resistance; and her journey to positing "abundance" as a way forward. "Women who long for abundance," she writes, "learn quickly how to navigate contradiction."

Author: Juniper Fitzgerald

Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY

Publication Date: Aug 30, 2022

Number of Pages: 128 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback/Social Science

ISBN-10: 155861382X

ISBN-13: 9781558613829