Dispatches From Lesbian America

by Giovanna Capone (Editor), Xequina Maria Berber (Editor), Cheela Romaine Smith (Editor)

Overview

Dispatches from Lesbian America is a collection of more than forty works of short fiction and memoir from contemporary writers, some newly emerging and some well-known. Unique in recent lesbian anthologies, these thoughtful stories address themes meaningful to us in the modern world.

Featured Authors: Charlene Allen, Mari Alschuler, Joan Annsfire, Roxanne Ansolabehere, Terry Baum, Xequina Maria Berber, Elizabeth Bernays, Lynn Brown, Giovanna Capone, Susan Clements, Elana Dykewomon, Haley Fedor, Joanne Fleisher, Pippa Fleming, Judy Grahn, Felicia Hayes, Lois Rita Helmbold, Chante Shirelle Holsey, Toke Hoppenbrouwers, Happy/L.A. Hyder, Bev Jafek, Bev Jo, Lenn Keller, Heidi LaMoreaux, Alison Laurie, Mo Markham, Arielle Nyx McKee, Heal McKnight, Helena Montgomery, Dr. Bonnie J. Morris, Ashley Obinwanne, Artemis Passionflower, Tonya Primm, Francesca Roccaforte, Lilith Rogers, Ruth A. Rouff, Heath Atom Russell, Barbara Ruth, Mary Saracino, Cheela "Rome" Smith, Tess Tabak, and Polly Taylor.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781943837649
Publisher:	Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company
Publication date:	01/12/2017
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Xequina Berber is the author of one book, Santora: The Good Daughter, under the pen name Resurreccion Cruz. She also wrote for the New Mission News in San Francisco, publishing monthly columns titled The Coconut Chronicles: Essays on Biculturality and La Post-Modern Curandera. Giovanna Capone is a poet, fiction writer, and playwright. She was raised in an Italian American neighborhood in New York. Her work has appeared in Curaggia: Writing by Women of Italian Descent, Bless Me Father: Stories of Catholic Childhood, Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry, and many more. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she works as a public librarian. Cheela Romain Smith is a crusty old dyke cartoonist, webmaster, tattooist, and long-term journal-keeper from the Deep South. While publishing her cartoon work in alternative comic books such as Wimmin's Comix, Gay Comix, and Girl Jock in the '80s and '90s, she fell in with the underground women-cartoonists' scene. Her graphics have appeared in mainstream publications, as well. She lives in Oakland, California.

Table of Contents

Preface 13

Opening Remarks Pippa Fleming Giovanna Capone 15

Where Are You Sister? Artemis Passionflower 21

Carry Me Home Charlene Allen 23

Patsy Cline Rolls Around in Her Grave Mari Alschuler 33

Rough Drafting Joan Annsfire 40

When Laura Met Christina Anonymous 49

Soliloquy Roxanne Ansolabehere 60

Dutiful Daughter Terry Baum 69

Unnatural Love Xequina Maria Berber 74

Love in a Motor Home Elizabeth Bernays 83

That Delicate Blue Streak Lynn Brown 92

New Shoes Giovanna Capone 105

Summer Soundtrack, 1977 Susan Clements 114

Paddling Slowly for Another Coast Elana Dykewomon 118

My Olive Green Coat Haley Fedor 126

Married to a Man, In Love with a Woman Joanne Fleisher 133

Excerpt from her book, A Simple Revolution Judy Grahn 137

The Road to Freedom Felicia Hayes 146

A Mad Kansas City Woman Lois Rita Helmbold 159

From Tomboy, To Woman, To Feminist, To Radical Lesbian: My Life's Journey Chante Shirelle Holsey 165

Her Handmade Kente Cloth Jacket Toke Hoppenbrouwer 172

On Being a Lesbian Femme in a Heterosexual World Happy/L.A. Hyder 177

Malena the Maddened One Bev Jafek 181

Lifelong Lesbian Bev Jo 187

A Feminist Butch is Not An Oxymoron Lenn Keller 194

First Kiss Heidi LaMoreaux 207

Organizing Lesbians in Aotearoa/New Zealand-American Influences Alison J. Laurie 211

The Day Maya Went Missing Mo Markham 217

Where Are My People? Arielle Nyx McKee 221

Other: Driving the Land in Between Heal McKnight 226

Sealed with a Kiss Helena Montgomery 230

Mothertongue Dr. Bonnie J. Morris 239

Let it be Known: My Coming Out Story Ashley Obinwanne 246

Prison Dykin': She Wore a Different Uniform Tonya Primm 250

Beyond the Wooden Spoon: Excerpt from an Italian-American Memoir Francesca Roccaforte 252

Lost on the Lava Lilith Rogers 257

Mess with Texas Ruth A. Rouff 261

Fighting Back: The Struggle to Reclaim My Womanhood Heath Atom Russell 267

Constantine, Michigan, 1959 Barbara Ruth 277

Telling Mary Saracino 282

High Tide Cheek "Rome" Smith 294

Provincetown Tess Tabak 299

My Urban Forest Polly Taylor 310