A review by caseythecanadianlesbrarian
Boys Like Her: Transfictions by Ivan Coyote, Anna Camilleri, Taste This, Lyndell Montgomery, Kate Bornstein, Zoë Eakle

5.0

Boys Like Her: Transfictions (1998) is, above all, a collection concerned with border crossings, both literal and figurative. In fact, what Boys Like Her really made me understand is that literal crossings are always figurative in some way and that, perhaps, figurative journeys can be understood in a unique way by thinking of them as literal. The event that Boys Like Her begins with and keeps coming back to is the literal Canada-U.S. border crossing that the troupe Taste This (comprised of Anna Camilleri, Ivan E. Coyote, Zoë Eakle, and Lyndell Montgomery) undertakes on their multi-disciplinary performance tour. This initial border crossing repeats and reinvents itself throughout the book, particularly in terms of gender and genre—word suspiciously similar, don’t you think?...
see the rest of my review here: http://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/review-of-boys-like-her-by-the-collective-taste-this/