Victoria A. Brownworth est une journaliste et écrivaine acclamée dont le travail aborde souvent des thèmes de la communauté queer et de la justice sociale. Son style est incisif et direct, permettant aux lecteurs de s'engager profondément dans les questions qu'elle explore. Elle examine les expériences vécues des groupes marginalisés, leur donnant une voix à travers son écriture. Son travail sert de puissant outil de plaidoyer, favorisant la compréhension et l'empathie tout en remettant en question les normes sociétales et en célébrant la diversité des histoires humaines.
Contains six stories, set primarily in New Orleans, including the title work in which Maeve, fearful she is dying after days of living in the streets, finds a friend in an AIDS clinic who helps her recover long enough to get home to London.
Lesbian erotica of the 1920s through the 1940s had a bold new cast to it. Unlike the tender and affectionate eroticism of the Victorian era with its naughty schoolgirls, convent antics and ladies-in-waiting, these 20th Century tales brought verisimilitude and fantasy together. While Radclyffe Hall was being prosecuted for obscenity for her depiction of "sapphics" and "inverts" in the classic lesbian novel *The Well of Loneliness,* her friend Natalie Barney was riding naked through the streets of Paris on horseback with her lover, the poet Renee Vivienne and Anais Nin were penning lurid and lustful tales of very bad girls while yearning for Henry Miller's sensual wife, June.