Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina and Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature, has died. She was 75. According to Sinister Wisdom, Allison died Wednesday after a short illness with cancer. A staunchly pro-woman, pro-queer, pro-love voice in our society, Allison wrote poetry, novels, essays and what she called “smut.” She repped poor, rural queerness when at least two of those three things seemed mutually exclusive to outsiders. As Literary Hub put it, “Allison wrote about a queer, poor South with dynamism and ferocious love.”