Linda Rosewood Hooper: Writings
Essays
One of my earliest memories.
An essay written for one of Irene Reti's projects, this one a history of gay/lesbian/bisexual, etc., life at UCSC, Out in the Redwoods. I'm not sure when it is to be published.
I interviewed my wife, Karen, for Irene Reti's Out in the Redwoods. A section of this interview may be included in the book, but this is the complete conversation.
I think this is an unpublished review of Irene Reti's anthology about Lesbian sadomasochism, but possibly the Lavendar Reader published it.
An unpublished and probably unfinished review of Schulman's book about how the mega-hit broadway show Rent is a plagerization of her novel, People in Trouble and why that matters to us.
I wrote this as an academic paper, hence the footnotes. The Ladder was a magazine about lesbians, published for sixteen years from 1956 to 1972.
As years separate me from this conversation, it seems more and more sad to me.
I attended Bill Clinton's (first) inauguration. I never published anything about the visit, although I intended to when I left Santa Cruz. Someday I may include photos.
This was written for a lesbian spirituality magazine.
An early expression of my opinion that violence against women is a problem that men need to solve.
I don't really like jazz music. But other styles have their metaphorical lessons too.
This story appeared in the Lavender Reader. It also appears in an art-table at the Saturn Cafe.
This was never published. I try to answer why AIDS prevention education doesn't occur at viewings of "The Quilt."
This was published in La Gazette just at the end of one particular round of swindles. The publisher wasn't sure if she should published it, because she herself had participated in the game. I'm glad she did anyway. I think it is one of the more important essays I've written, and it was built on the work of other writers.
I worked at an office just outside the restroom at Kresge College. History of Consciousness students would gather there and smoke between classes and my office would become unbearable. I tried to write a "No Smoking" sign they would understand.
This is a satire. Some people have read it and thought I was serious and then didn't get the last line. One person actually said "You were making so many great points and then what was up with that bi-phobic thing at the end?"
The situation described in this essay has not improved.
My 1989 Earthquake story.
Fiction and Poetry
Yes, but which one?
Sometimes I write things just as an exercise.
Sometimes I write things because I have to.
This parody appeared in Triva (22) A Journal of Rejected Ideas. The parody was rejected by Common Lives/Lesbian Lives because it didn't actually say explicitly that drinking too much and taking drugs was a bad thing.
A spontaneously written lyric.
I call it fiction, but it was told to me as a true story by a real witch.
This my most widely published story. Lavender Reader published it, then Susie Bright included in on one of her Best American Erotica collections.
Based on a true story.
Wolves
This cycle of stories grows from a story I wrote in my junior year of high school about a young woman who discovers that she is a werewolf. Over the years I've thought a lot about what would happen to her and what worldwide culture of werewolves and shapeshifters would be like. I have notes on the story, but mostly all I have been able to write are the interpolated stories--the rewritings of familiar tales told from the wolves' point of view.
This story isn't based on a traditional tale, but is a indigenous story to the werewolf culture.
An interpolated tale.
Tales
My version of a Greek myth.
I'm not sure where this story came from.
A story that contains a ballad I wrote.