![]() This book could have been called “Nico! The Bisexual Kardashian.” However they lost me once they started talking about wealth (one show paid them $20,000 an episode, with a job like that I could live a year on a few weeks of work or retire after a few years), alcoholism, cocaine binges (my Birthday Cake Oreos finally got delivered, so I understand addictions), and group sex parties (I had trouble getting one person to sleep with me, I didn’t know multiple partners was an option). I found that I related to the beginning of “Space Between” quite a bit with Nico’s struggle to figure out their sexual identity and dealings with a homophobic and racist family life. Or their ability to cause an instant heart-on. What’s oil pulling? I’m not Googling it out of fear of what I might find. Like I always say, you don’t really know someone until you know what’s the first item they stuck up their butt hole, in Nico’s case that would be a spoon used for oil pulling. ![]() “All Of It Is You: Poetry” hints at who Nico is but “Space Between: Explorations Of Love, Sex, And Fluidity” lets you into their inner workings. “Animal” is a fav, dedicated to Nico’s dog Sun, showing a sweeter side but the best is when they play on words and prose funny shit…there’s literally a hysterical poem called “Shit”. ![]() Many of the poems are artsy and deep with words I was too busy to define, ain’t nobody got time for that during a pandemic. They cover the planets, astrology and space in their universe section. While the earth poems are about minerals, seasons and elements. The body poems are about various organs, secretions and emotions. “All Of It Is You: Poetry” is broken down in three sections: body, earth and universe. Nico's distinct and relatable prose tangos us past binaries, toward an intimacy beyond language.When I heard that Nico was part of the LGBTQ community, with they and their pronouns, the Coronavirus quarantine gave me time to download their book “All Of It Is You: Poetry” on Kindle and get an autographed copy of “Space Between: Explorations Of Love, Sex, And Fluidity” from Barnes & Noble online. Living is an art form that Nico does well, and this book is an argument for making meaning from the messiness that surrounds us rather than simply muting it. This is a book about addiction, familial trauma, and gender-yes-but more so it is about living. As with the best truth-telling, it gives language to a thirst we had forgotten, while also quenching it. Praise for Space Between In an industry that thrives on artifice, Nico Tortorella's candid soul-searching is precious and invigorating. Space Between is at once an education for readers, a manifesto for both the labeled and label-free generations, and a personal memoir of love, identity, and acceptance. Nico has become a leading voice of the fluidity movement by encouraging open dialogue and universal acceptance. Expanding on themes explored on their popular podcast, The Love Bomb, Nico shares the intimate details of their romantic partnerships, the dysfunction of their loud but loving Italian family, and the mingling of their feminine and masculine identities into one multidimensional, sexually fluid, nonbinary individual. It was precisely in that space between that Nico encountered the diverse community of open-minded, supportive peers they'd always dreamed of having. It wasn't until Nico dug deep and began to examine the fluidity of both their sexuality and gender identity that they became more comfortable in their own skin, got sober from alcohol, entered into an unconventional marriage with the love of their life, and fully embraced a queer lifestyle that afforded them the opportunity to explore the world outside the gender binary. That is, until the desire for fame and fortune eclipsed their journey toward enlightenment and sent them into a downward spiral of addiction and self-destructive behavior. Raised on a steady regimen of Ram Dass and raw food, they have always been interested in the more spiritual aspects of life. Younger star and LGBTQIA+ advocate Nico Tortorella investigates love, sex, gender, addiction, family, fame, and fluidity through their personal story and the lens of their nonbinary identity Nico Tortorella embodies the twenty-first-century human.
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