![]() ![]() I am always relieved to find one of my early role models alive and healthy and still doing her art. Most of my early heroes have disappeared some have died. They are all stamped on the back "to be sold and shared with women only" and "for lesbians only," and to this day, Elana, I have kept that promise. The copies I have are dog-eared they were self published and printed by early lesbian-feminist presses that have (sigh) gone the way of flannel shirts and "wimmin"-only collectives. She is the author of three previous books with titles like Riverfinger Women (I will now admit it took me a while to realize the significance of that title), They Will Know Me By My Teeth, and Fragments From Lesbos. ![]() She was a writer and a poet and outspoken about the issues affecting women's and lesbians' lives. Elana Dykwomon-well, doesn't her name say it all?-was a strong, pround, out and outrageous lesbian in a world where lesbians were only beginning to exist in our fullness. So let me tell you how it was for me when I was first coming out in the late 1970s. ![]() well, actually many of you are probably too young to remember. ![]() Maybe some of you are too young to remember. "Whenever you tell the story of one woman, inside is another." (17)Įlana Dykewomon was one of my early heroes-sheroes, I think we called them then. ![]()
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