Lisa Crystal Carver | |
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 Carver in 1999 | |
| Born | (1968-11-09)November 9, 1968 (age 57) Dover, New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer, performance artist, musician |
| Notable works | Rollerderby Drugs Are Nice |
| Spouses | Jean-Louis Costes Dave[1] Goolkasian Bruno |
| Children | 1[1] |
Lisa Crystal Carver (born November 9, 1968,[2][3]Dover, New Hampshire),[1] also known asLisa Suckdog, is an American writer known for her writing inRollerderby. Through her interviews, she introduced the work ofVaginal Davis,Dame Darcy,Cindy Dall,Boyd Rice,Costes (her ex-husband with whom she performed asSuckdog),Nick Zedd,GG Allin, andLiz Armstrong to the public. A collection of notable articles from the zine was published asRollerderby: The Book.
She started touring with the performance art band Psycodrama when she was 18 years old.[1] It was also at this time that she began doing sex work, which has been a major theme in her writings over the years.[4][5][6] She began touring with Costes a year later, and would also tour without him when he was in France. She toured the U.S. and Europe six times, the last time in 1998. Thenoise music soap operas included audience interaction including dancing and mock-rape of audience members.[1]
Carver is also the author ofDancing Queen: a Lusty Look at the American Dream, in which she expounds upon various relics of pop culture past, includingLawrence Welk,roller rinks, andOlivia Newton-John. In 2005,Soft Skull Press releasedDrugs Are Nice, detailing her early childhood and later romantic relationships withCostes,Boyd Rice (with whom she has a son)[1] andSmog'sBill Callahan. In addition to writing her own zines and books, Carver has also written for various magazines (includingPeter Bagge's comic bookHate) and kept a fictionalized journal about her sex life for the websiteNerve. Although Carver no longer writes her journal for the site, she is still a semi-regular contributor. The online journal at Nerve was subsequently published in book form asThe Lisa Diaries: Four Years in the Sex Life of Lisa Carver and Company.
2012 saw the release of Carver's treatise on the artistic career ofYoko Ono titledReaching Out with No Hands: Reconsidering Yoko Ono (Backbeat Books). As of 2015, Carver has written a handful of pieces for website The Recoup. Her book,The Jaywalker, is a short story collection illustrated by long-time friend and collaboratorDame Darcy. Lisa, Dame Darcy, Maddie Kuzak, and Genevieve Kuzak toured parts of the world in 2016 to promote the book—a performance art show reminiscent of the early 1990s Suckdog.
She also interviewedmixed martial arts fighter Brent Bergeron for an article that appeared inVice magazine.
In 2017, Carver releasedSuckdog: A Ruckus (self published). This book, including 80+ photos and illustrations, looks back at Carver's wild past onstage and behind-the-scenes.
In 2023, she published an essay inThe Paris Review contrasting French and American culture and discussing her relationship with her husband Bruno.[7]
In her personal life, she has "been married four times and divorced three",[8] and lived inMontmorency, France,[7] from 2021 until 2025.
Carver currently lives inPittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[9]
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