cover, Do Overs Sensuous Stories of Sapphic Love and Life by Karin Kallmaker. Two pink conversation hearts read LOVE and I DO over a mottled red backbround.

Do Overs + 2 = Old Treasures in New Formats

Karin Kallmaker Book News, Do Overs + 2, Short Stories

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When you’ve been writing for twenty-mumble years, it’s a lot like living in the same house for that length of time. You accumulate trunks full of treasures because there’s just not enough shelf space to display everything. Fortunately, there’s no limit on shelf space in the digital world, so I figured it’s time to dust off a lot of my treasures and put them out for all to see. Read More

ribbons for so many cures

Why I Don’t Buy Pink Ribbon Products . . . Anymore

Karin Kallmaker LIFE + STYLE 5 Comments

You see them everywhere this month. Pink ribbons on bags of cookies, running shoes, cereal and gift wrap. The rest of the year there are banners or ribbons festooned throughout the retail world on behalf of many other causes. After an encounter with a box of cereal, I am trying to be blind to all those ribbons and banners on ordinary things I buy. Read More

Joan Nestle speaking at table with flowers

Talk, Love, Listen – Joan Nestle, in Her Own Words

Karin Kallmaker Sisters of the Pen 7 Comments

Who can’t see the parallel to the 1950s and 60s, when you would be scarcely tolerated if you were a desexed homosexual and the reality in 2015 that getting legally married leads to losing your job? It’s okay to be gay as long as you are invisible – true then. True now. Which is why reading Joan Nestle is as important today as it has ever been. Read More