Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound

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Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound

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Twenty-five years ago, when this book was written, there had once been a town in Western Massachusetts with a large and growing lesbian population. There was a feminist film collective, a feminist bookstore, a collectively ow... (show all)ned and run women's restaurant, a mostly lesbian-populated rooming house, and a few miles away in two directions lesbian-owned women's land. A course of study at the state university that is now known as some version of Women, Sexuality and Gender Studies was then known simply as Women's Studies. In the bigger universe there had been women's recording companies, women's music festivals, a half-dozen dedicated feminist and lesbian-feminist publishers, theater companies, little magazines, news rags, literary reviews, and filmmmakers. The Stonewall Riots had incited a movement by then and ACT UP was clearing the path for AIDS activism. Ellen DeGeneres was not yet out as a lesbian - when she took that step she would call herself gay - and we would have to wait another twenty-five or so years for Jill Soloway's Transparent

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In the beginning was the fire, ha esh, which burned in my sister Nadine Pagan's eyes, then lit up like a burning bush around her head and took with it most of her hair. It spoke to us like God spoke unto Moses. In a ... (show all)high thin voice it sputtered, Your sister is a lunatic, your middle child has gone mad. For who else but a crazy person would steal the Shabbes candles from off the kitchen table and with them light her own head on fire? -Prologue. The Amazing Human Touch

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You were the new dyke in town, Nadine. Me, Rose Shapiro, I brought you there myself. In my own arms with my own hands, although at the time I was myself under water, the underwater life I made by rolling sticky green pot betw... (show all)een thin sheets of paper and smoking it like some grade-B movie lesbirado. But I remember your arrival as if it happened yesterday. The story goes like this: -Chapter 1, History Lessons

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813.54

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PS3561.A757