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'In 1989, Kathleen Mary Fallon published with Sybylla Press her novel Working Hot, described by Fiona McGregor as “a novel about dykes in Sydney, written with an experimental verve that still dazzles today” (“The Hot Desk”). Fallon was claimed by Marion May Campbell to be “the first explicitly sex-positive queer female writer in Australia” (Textual Intercourse). Working Hot was an instant hit with many second wave feminists interested in radical, subversive writing. It was also variously designated as “urban grunge” and as having affinities with the writing of Americans, Kathy Acker and Pat Califia (now Patrick Califia-Rice).' (Introduction)
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Epigraph: I mean by extreme writing/finding the limit—trying to find rat holes of possibility, how not to have an absent other, how not to allow the Other in myself to be absent from me. (Fallon, Outskirts)
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