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26 solo around the world. Amelia Earheart is a pervasive lesbian hero. Photographs of
her in lesbian publications usually depict her in her flying gear, standing in front
of the aircraft.
27 pack of women. Robyn Archer’s musical theatre takes an ironic view of a pack of
women playing cards in a smoke-filled bar. The success of the show is indicated
by the range of forms it has taken: it was performed in theatres, and turned into
a TV program, and later published as a book. Robyn Archer. 1986. Pack of Women.
28 lesbian. An alternative list to this is given by Marchessault. “The angel makers,
witches, hysterical women, the bad fucks, old cows, bitches in heat, wild cats, old
mares, birds of ill omen, non-virgins, whores, lesbians, unnatural mothers, loose
women, crazy ladies, chattering magpies, cock teasers, the depressed and sluts,
like those two there, have already been burnt, and they will be hanged on top of
that.” Jovette Marchessault. 1985. Lesbian Triptych, p. 87. Faiseuse d’ange [angel
makers] is a Quebec expression denoting women who perform illegal abortions.
The confounding of lesbians with other independent women is a common
slippage in masculine discourses of abuse, and lesbian authors recite these words
as a means of exorcism. See also: “There are rivers in my hands, my fingers are
webbed like a delta. My arms have become wings and I am a witch soaring on
magic flying ointment. Others fly near me – Hecate, Circe, Medea, Sappho – and
their words burn into my flesh. I am tattooed with the words that killed them:
witch wicce witga vitki wit wisdom wise woman / incantatrix lamia lesbian saga
maga malefica / sortilega strix venefica herberia / anispex auguris divinator
janutica / ligator mascara phitonissa stregula”. Susan Hawthorne. 1992. The
Falling Woman, p. 150.