You can’t just get up in the morning and say to yourself, “Well, time to start saving the solar system!” Never mind the logic or illogic of it, never mind “modesty”; they’re not relevant. Even if you knew beyond all question that you had the power to do it, you couldn’t tackle […]
Or are some people missing the point in a great big way?
Dictionaries generally agree that ’sexual’ means something on the order of pertaining to the genital union of a female and a male animal, and that “having sex” is having intercourse — intercourse being defined as the penetration of a vagina by a penis, with ejaculation. My own observation of usage leads me to think […]
For me, this started as such a clear idea: to reclaim lesbian identity. We, lesbians, will get to say who we are and who we are not. Politically, sexually, emotionally, within our communities. We will have space to discuss owning ourselves.
I’ve been wanting to do this issue for a year or two, in part to […]
Two lesbians of color, Black and Asian, had seemingly forgotten lesbians are everywhere, and come from everywhere. We did gut checks on who we were thinking of when we thought of lesbians in East Oakland. We were thinking of dykes like the ones on 20/20: white, middle-class and definitely out of place in the inner […]
…about sexist bias in the mental health classification system, the pervasiveness of woman and child abuse in this culture, and what a struggle it is when the two come together in the person of one hurting woman. For what it’s worth, I too struggle with everything she talks about, even though I was just […]
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