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October 17.2QÛ3 • BOOKS Cunt wait for the revolution? Me neither. Author Inga Muscio moves to Portland to raise some hell by M a r ie F l e is c h m ann he author of the increasingly pop ular 1998 feminist manifesto Cunt: A Declaration of Independence (with a 2002 second edition) has thou sands of cunt-loving fans who certainly hope she keeps talking. The fiery redhead moved from San Francisco to Stumptown in June and feels right at home. “I’ve spent most of my adult life in the Paoitic Northwest. It is a gixxl place for writers, in general," says Inga Muscio. “I chose Portland because it seems that, unlike Seattle, the people here have a hit of a tight rein on developers and Paul Allen-esque dick heads.... People here really care about their community, about their neighhor- hixxls.... I love how the Mount Tabor neighborhood responded to the totally vapid idea about covering the reservoirs.” The 37-year-old writer continues to he impressed with the way Portlanders respond to oppression. "People are not satisfied with the rote manner that the city deals with police brutality toward black folks and protesters.... If there was any major city that was ripe for rev olution, it would have to be this one.” That’s high praise from a woman with a vaginal manifesto. “I realized I would write a kxik called Cunt when I Inga Muscio reads from her work-in-progress, was sitting in the middle of my kitchen, Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil: My Life and surrounded by articles I had written in Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society, Nov. 9 at In the past four years,” Muscio says. Other Words “A few years prior, I accidentally the store, calling a friend prior to any solo depar turned in an article with the second ‘o’ left out of tures, etc. And it’s best to check the comprehen ‘word count.’ My editor thought 1 had written sive “Cunt-lovin’ Guide to the Universe” before ‘word cunt’ intentionally.... Regardless, I was chixising your next, well...just about anything. quite delighted with this term when she pointed Though the second printing of Cunt fms it out to me, so 1 stopped putting my name on my articles and started using ‘word cunt’ and then the been selling even better than the first edition, and its success may very well lead to a third number of words instead. So the word ‘cunt’ was printing, Muscio’s new protect will more than literallv on almost everv article surrounding me.' likelv also he a pinnacle work. Autobiography of a Which is quite appropriate when vou know Blue-Eyed Devil. M> Life and limes m a Racist. that manv of the articles had to do with cunts Imperialist Society, due out next year, has been in anyway. “These articles became the framework the making for four years. In a critique of the for the fxxik. 1 hunched them into topics and saw a chapter on whores, periods, etc. All 1 had faulty framework of nruxlem America, the author explores everything from race relations to to do, really, was fill in the many, many blanks.” the political plundering of the people’s gtxxJwill. ith the huge success of Cum under her “If our present dictator is re-power-played belt, Muscio’s second edition responds to inti) office, my days as a U.S. citizen might, at much of the feedback from the first, least temporarily, he numbered.... I will finish this bxxik here and then I will probably he trav including what she delicately explains as “some right-wing pieces of shit in Pennsylvania [who] eling around a hit.” came to a Cuntfest at Penn State.” But she will stick around long enough to continue her research, finish the new fxx>k and Apparently these, ahem, rather conservative become an active part of the Portland commu folks, lobbied the Keystone State’s governor to nity, contributing to, she says, “the kx^il anti suspend funding for some schcx>l activities in racist, pro-transgendered, pro-woman, pro- response to Muscio’s reading. “Pennsylvania is the community revolution I see forming. If 1 can most racist, fucked-up state I have ever been in, do my part to facilitate white people digging and I’ve been in most,” she says. “By and large, 1 their heads out of their collective asses, that don’t get much resistance. Cum tends to slip would he nice, too. I also have a number of under the radar, which is great. Gender-variant really close friends here...and the roses, one people have taken me to task, and 1 address mustn’t forget the roses.” J H that...hut I wouldn’t term that as resistance because it came from a general place of love.” I nc 5A MUSCIO will read from her book in progress Muscio says that her writing process has not 7 pm . Nov. 9 at In Other Words, 3734 S.E. changed “per se” since the first edition of Cum. Hawthorne Blvd. Stay updated by visitmg “I still have the same entirely schizophrenic www.kalikunti.com. reading and writing practices.” The survival tips are what makes both editions M arif . 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