The selected journals of trans, mixed-race artist and dyke erotica writer Red Jordan Arobateau.
Best known for his erotic lesbian fiction, Red Jordan Arobateau was also a prolific painter who maintained and self-published a journal for roughly twenty years, documenting his life on the "abject bottom" of life in the U.S. Edited and introduced by poet and scholar Cameron Awkward-Rich with a foreword by Michelle Tea, and paintings by Arobateau, Time Also Will Make It Interesting captures Arobateau's life as a young dyke in the criminalized cultures of 1950s-60s gay bars of Chicago and New York; his transition from dyke to trans man in late 1990s San Francisco; and his return to painting and an unfolding spirituality within that rapidly gentrifying city.
Queerly messy, ornery, and stuffed with Arobateau's wisdom, this volume is what he might have called, "a novel combined with a journal--da novel/journal! Taking all the liberty in the world! A domain where verse can be inserted, dreams recorded, my everyday political rants printed out, combined with my forté--fiction! All under one binding & title!"
About the Author :
Michelle Tea is the author of many books, including Valencia, Against Memoir, and Little F. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and founding editor of DOPAMINE Books.
Review :
"Bracing, funny as hell, genre-busting, and liberatory--Time Will Also Make It Interesting is exactly the book we need, and like nothing you've read before."
--T Fleischmann "Read Red for his critical contributions to histories of queer, trans, working class, black, disabled folk, and more. But also read him for his unrelenting will to write feelings, make art, and take up space--even when the establishment said otherwise."
--Naomi Extra
"[Red] lived to see and become part of a true trans revolution, gaining a crucial--life-saving?--context for himself."--Michelle Tea
"Time Also Will Make It Interesting reintroduces the work of Red Jordan Arobateau--a major gift in a time where there are still so few Black trans people in print."
--Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
"Cameron's selection reveals Red's range while preserving what made him essential: his refusal to separate the erotic from the sacred."
--Diana Cage
