I love knowing that my books will be read by women-loving-women in languages more comfortable for them than English. From Krug & Schadenberg, a new translation of Warming Trend! Read More
One Writer’s Story: Celebrating Survival
A writer I know entrusted me with her story. It’s not easy to read, and after the stories of the last few days it’s clear her story is unique only in the details. The common threads and themes are all too consistent for victims of bullies: Different = Target. Read More
To the Girly-Girls Who Like Girls
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It Gets Better, Yes It Does
Even Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has made a video for It Gets Better. If you’re a young person who looks different and you get bullied because of it, go get the major love at the It Gets Better Project on YouTube. Start with Tim Gunn’s video and keep watching until you know all the way down in your DNA that you’re not alone. Read MoreKip and Tam and Faith and Sydney and Jackie and Leah…
I estimate that I’ve notched over 100 literary bedposts, each bed including (usually) two women busy doing the things lesbian relish. Sometimes, even sleeping. But I digress. Read More
A New Word for a Swashbuckler
There are words used against us that are meant to diminish and degrade. And there are words withheld from us that are meant to keep us diminished and degraded. As I wrote the new set of stories for Frosting on the Cake 2, there was a new word I used because it was natural to several stories. Read More