DORIS #26
by Cindy Crabb
This is the R-S-T issue in the Doris alphabet series. The first section, entitled “Robin”, starts off with Cindy disagreeing with her lover Robin’s inability to have hope that people will ever change. “Shy” is about how Cindy found a place for her introverted self among the loud and raucous punk girls she called her friends, and how you don’t have to make a lot of noise to be radical. “Social Ecology” explains just that, the belief that in order to repair humans’ relationship to nature we need to repair our relationships with each other first. “Truth” is about Cindy’s childhood, family, friendships and the truths and lies we tell ourselves. This passage from “Robin” sums up the way Doris will make you feel: “Robin says ‘this is not political,’ as she touches my ribs and I grab her in handfuls and we crawl together into nest-warmth-heat-feeling. Political. Yes. Political I say, because this is what it feels like to be alive full int he body heart beat to heart beat alive beyond hope. I want everyone to feel this much, this sweet.”
20 pages, color cardstock cover, half letter
$2