December 11, 2012 at 11:20am
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What story were you told about how babies are born?
This is the question local author Rebecca McCarthy posted on her Facebook page to facilitate a conversation about sex.
"Out of the mother's tummy, I was puzzled how I got there."
"From a seed of some type."
"The cabbage patch."
"Mom and dad rolled around naked and tickled each other."
"The stork."
These are some of the answers, and a few of the many reasons McCarthy wrote her new book, Writing the Diaphragm Blues & other Sexual Cacophonies.
McCarthy has organized an online launch party for her book Wednesday, Dec. 12 at noon. Yes, 12-12-12 at 12 p.m. The online launch includes a Google hangout, live streamline from Youtube and Facebook.
There are no barriers on who can be there," she says. "From Mississippi to Japan, all areas can participate."
Choosing to do an online launch is significant to McCarthy because she feels like it's a safe place for people to say what they want.
"To use social media at that moment in time is important," she says. "We're usually talked at, or we react. It allows woman to talk about these things without feeling unabashed. It's a resource."
The book rolls humor, playwriting, sophistication and science into an accessible book for everyone.
"You can't speak for all woman," says McCarthy, "but can speak about your own experiences and open the door for other woman to speak about theirs."
Rebecca McCarthy is a writer, educator, artist and roller derby skater with Tacoma's Toxic 253 League. She holds a PhD in Comparative Studies from Florida Atlantic University. Her published works include the influential Origins of the Magdalene Laundries: An Analytical History (2010), which traces women's plight in the laundries from the Middle Ages to modernity.
You can also add author of a compelling perspective on modern sexuality.
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