In the second half of Eating Fire, My Life as a Lesbian Avenger
the lesbian activist group has officially started to disband. The rumors of the
group being racist and exclusive have ruined the reputation of the
organization. All of the original leaders have distanced themselves from the
organization in order to protect their own person reputations, Kelly Cogswell
and her girlfriend Ana were some of those leaders. Upon leaving the group Kelly
and her girlfriend decide to live in Paris for a few years. They feel that a
brief hiatus from America will help them find who they are again.
Kelly’s primary audience is minorities and people who are
unsure of who they are. After finishing the book, I no longer believe that
Kelly’s purpose is to speak the truth of the Lesbian Avengers. Instead I
believe her purpose is to teach her audience that it’s important to find your
identity.
The
end of the book is less about the activist group and more about Kelly herself. Due
to the group disbanding because of rumors of white supremacy and exclusion
Kelly felt like she lost who she was at the beginning of the group. This is why
the whole second half is more about her than the group.
Kelly achieves her
purpose through her use of personal anecdotes. Kelly retells her struggle of trying to remember who she was before she helped created the Lesbian Avengers. With the help of her girlfriend Ana she travels through Europe and rediscovers her identity as a lesbian and an activist.
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