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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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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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