Endorsements
“Sassafras Lowrey is so much more than one or the other anything. Ze is for sure a vital voice of hir generation, expressing as ze does, many mutually exclusive points of view on politically and emotionally live wire subjects. So, much to my delight, I find hir work filled with mischief, mayhem, and multiple meanings.”
- Kate Bornstein
Gender Outlaw, My Gender Workbook, and hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws.
“The topics were amazing & completely blew my mind!”
-storytelling workshop participant
“Sassafras Lowrey has given us a book of calluses and blood, of dirt and mud and sweat. Hir words conjure the grit and the spit and the deep, visceral truths of lives still mostly unimagined in contemporary literature. These pages will stain our fingers, work their way into the creases of your knuckles and leave you a little sore, a little bruised and one hell of a lot more alive.”
- Toni Amato
Editor of Pinned Down by Pronouns & founder of Write Here Write Now
“She forces people to take a closer look at lives that often are overlooked. She commands respect as an artist and a community builder. I have no doubt Sassafras will go far.”
-Katastrophe
“Sassafras exists as a bridge and in doing so has the rare ability to give voice to the gender borderland.”
-Sue Burns
In Other Words Feminist Bookstore
“Remember the first book you found, molding in the stacks of some suburban library or shoplifted from a college town comic shop, that told a story you recognized, a story that could have been your own? Remember how you felt, how your heart jumped into your throat but kept on pounding, because finally you had proof: there was someone else like you, someone who had not only survived but had believed in herself enough to write down her survival?
Sassafras Lowrey’s stories of a life lived queerly is that kind of book. Lowrey’s escape from her abusive family of origin, her exile from the first loving home she had known, her perpetual re-making of chosen family on the streets and in complicated queer communities, her brave insistence on her self through painful layers of coming out (as dyke, trans/genderqueer, femme, survivor)—each fragment of prose or poetry is a touchstone, or maybe a bread crumb leading out of isolation. If you are or used to be a broken-hearted queer kid, if you’ve ever felt too fucked up to fit, this book will help save your life.”
-Leslie Freeman
Touchstone Writers