It’s like going to Pride and having it feel very corporate. There are a bunch of dykes who love to come to Orlando and work at the theme parks because they’re the Disney-obsessed dykes. It’s because everybody comes there to work at theme parks. Kristen: (laughs) Yeah there are so many gay people in Orlando. And she was like, Drew, have you ever been to Orlando? There are, um, there are a lot of lesbians here? And I was like well I do know a lesbian from Orlando.
When I finished the book, all I wanted to do was talk about it and what is VERY EXCITING is I got to talk about it WITH KRISTEN!ĭrew: Okay, first, I need to tell you that a month ago I got a call from my sister when she was in Orlando for a work thing. It asks questions about parenthood and queer community that will stay circulating around my brain for a long time to come.
Like her debut, Mostly Dead Things, Kristen’s second novel With Teeth is a deeply felt, deeply uncomfortable, deeply hilarious story of a total disaster of a lesbian. I want queer characters who are allowed to be total disasters while still maintaining their humanity - in a sense, that is humanity. When I say I want better queer representation, I specifically mean that I want it to be worse. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.
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