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It's big enough for all of us.

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Reading Romance to Escape – From What? To What?

Karin Kallmaker 07/10/2020 LIFE + STYLE 0 Comments

When we crave to escape into a romance story, what are we escaping to? What gets left behind? Who gets left behind?

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Okay Lesbian Boomer – Diaspora and Other Rewards

Karin Kallmaker 11/15/2019 LIFE + STYLE 5 Comments

We left our closet homeland, struggled toward equality, and now we see what we set in motion. Diaspora, #TheseKidsToday, and #OKBoomer Lesbian style.

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Casting the First Tweet – Why Someone Else’s Gender Is Not About Me

Karin Kallmaker 06/12/2015 Cheers & Chocolate, LIFE + STYLE 19 Comments

My brain-churning, stomach-twisting questioning presumed that I knew all there was to know about what it’s like to be a woman in this world. And I don’t.

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Keeping it ‘Real’ and Buying into the Big Lie

Karin Kallmaker 09/14/2014 LIFE + STYLE 12 Comments

What is a ‘real lesbian’ and who decides? Karin Kallmaker on the tightrope of being guest and host in the Big Queer Tent.

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KK's purple suede stilettos mean business. And bunions.

To the Girly-Girls Who Like Girls

Karin Kallmaker 10/20/2010 LIFE + STYLE 4 Comments

If you’re a young femme in school and you really want the purple shoes, the fabulous purse and the supermodel hair, but the gay kids give you a hard time for not looking gay enough — that gets better too.

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Random Trivial Things

  • Trivia – Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren? Sure!
    It's unusual for Karin to have an actor in mind to play one of her characters. An exception is Marissa's mother in Finders Keepers. The "step up on the table in the country club dining room to make an announcement" personality - it's so Meryl Streep. If she were unavailable then Helen Mirren would do it justice as well.

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  • Frosting 3 – More Warming Trend, Captain, and Roller Coaster
    I love catching up on some of the characters she created from Warming Trend, Captain of Industry, Roller Coaster, and more.
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    These stories are great as stand alone and as surprise returns of characters I had read before.
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