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5 Uranian. The term Uranianism was used in the early twentieth century as a term
for lesbianism. Elizabeth Dauthendey. 1906. The Uranian Question and Women.
6 you’re not safe here. She was referring to the records of the torture of lesbians under
the socialist government of Yoweri Museveni. See Amnesty International. 2001.
Crimes of hate, conspiracy of silence, Torture and ill-treatment based on sexual identity
ACT 40/016/2001.
7 goblin markets. The goblin markets about which Christina Rosetti writes take place
during twilight. Two sisters living on the edge of fairyland are forbidden social
intercourse with the fruit peddling goblins. One sister, Laura, gives in, and rather
like Snow White, Eve and Sappho before her, eats the fruit. So begins a process of
inward wasting, until her sister Lizzie prepares to sacrifice herself by going into the
twilight and obtaining a second taste of the fruit. Laura’s health is restored. For a
critical examination of the poem, see Jan Marsh. 1994. Christina Rosetti: A Literary
Biography, pp. 229-237.
8 hussies. An Adelaide-based lesbian band of the 1970s called itself the Shameless
Hussies. A band member, Helen Potter, wrote the eponymous song which has the
chorus: “We’re shameless hussies and we don’t give a damn / we’re loud and
raucous and we’re fighting for our rights / and our sex and for fun, and we’re
strong.” The song travelled around Australia and in the 1980s was taken
to Greenham Common where it was reproduced in the Greenham Common
Song Book.
9 circus freaks. Bearded women, aka lesbians, have earned their keep as freaks in
circuses up to the middle of the twentieth century. If no women in western society
ever plucked, shaved, waxed, exfoliated or laser beamed their facial hair there
would be many more bearded women in the streets.
10 fingers. “Then dawn's / pink fingers / could infiltrate your body.” Susan
Hawthorne. 1997. “Dialogues with Love”. In Fruit Salad, p. 186.
11 virtual worlds cyberspace. An interesting conundrum: as William Gibson has pointed
out, in cyberspace there’s no there there; and as so many repressive regimes have
pointed out, lesbians don’t exist.
12 lesbian heavens. Another place which doesn’t yet exist, but if Dawn Cohen has her
way, in Lesbian Heaven: “There are Lesbian trees / and a Lesbian breeze, /
a Lesbian moon at night / Lesbian lakes and Lesbian seas / That sparkle in
Lesbian light”. Dawn Cohen. 1989. “Lesbian Heaven”. In Susan Hawthorne and
Jenny Pausacker (Eds.). 1989. Moments of Desire, pp. 62-63.
13 that harbour that haven. As H.D. writes in Trilogy: “we know no rule / of procedure, //
we are voyagers, discoverers / of the not known, // the unrecorded; / we have no map; //
possibly we will reach haven, / heaven.” H.D. 1983. Collected Poems, p. 543. Italics in
the original.