We Don't Need Another Wave tours San Francisco

My friend Melody is the illustrious editor of the new feminist anthology, We Don't Need Another Wave. She unfortunately doesn't live in San Francisco, but being the East Coaster that she is, recently made the big jump to New York City where she is in the process of becoming the queerest straight girl in the metropolis and co-habitating (platonically) with renowned feminist pornographers (it sounds rather exciting, really). Fortunately for those of us in San Francisco, she came to visit our city where she pedaled her wares this past weekend. I went to the readings she held at Modern Times bookstore and the Anarchist Bookfair, but really only heard the contents of the first. Most of the essays contributors read at the events were rather heavy. They deal with death and abuse and occasionally with the simple contradictions of growing up female. Despite (and because of) the weighty nature of some of the essays, the collection is really good. The book deals with serious things via the vehicle of the personal voice (which, I have to say, is quintessentially feminist).