Lola Miesseroff's childhood certainly predisposed her to be a rebel. She was born in Marseille to Russian anarchist immigrants, and the family ran and lived in a nudist colony, a place where men were allowed to be feminine, women masculine. Hers was what she calls a "engendered" childhood. Lola's picaresque memoir Fag Hag tracks her peregrinations through what she calls the "outer left" from Marseille to Avignon and Paris. She has always been deeply committed to women's liberation, sexual liberation, and LBGTQ Iteration. She has ever been an enthusiastic proponent of communal living, polyamory, and oppositional communism. "I have dredged my memory," Lola writes, "in the hope that revisiting the past might help illuminate our present; if it doesn't, I shall have failed. I want to contribute in some small measure to the struggles of today by exposing the strengths and weaknesses of the struggles of the past, and to contest fragmented identity politics in favor of 'all for one and one for all.'