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1 two women. There are stories in many cultures about two women travelling across
large tracts of land together. These tales tell of co-operation and creativity. Such
tales are abundant among Indigenous peoples from northwest Australia.
2 ancient rose. The rose has often been equated in lesbian poetry with female
genitalia. It gives new meaning to Gertrude Stein's "a rose is a rose is rose".
Nossis in 325 B.C. wrote: "But one whom Kypris / Has not loved, will never
know / What roses her flowers are." See Jacqui Stockdale’s painting, entitled The
Memory: Portrait of a Woman Holding an Ancient Rose (1995).
3 flying horse. The horse is also associated with lesbian sexuality, while the Vily of
middle European legend threaten men's sexuality. Robyn Smith. “The Vily”. In
Susan Hawthorne, Cathie Dunsford and Susan Sayer (Eds.). 1997. Car Maintenance,
Explosives and Love and Other Contemporary Lesbian Writings, pp, 278-280.
4 brick. Suniti Namjoshi, in Building Babel, wants to build culture on the Internet.
She writes: “What I had in mind was a palace in the air and under the sea, a
structure that was both real and impossible ...” (p. 34) and so, “The Black Piglet
and Sister Solitude set about sorting all the things they might use. They decide
that … all bricks either could or did or even might or should, carry a message,
and that therefore all bricks should be saved.” Suniti Namjoshi. 1996. Building
Babel, p. 38.
5 ritual. Hair rituals are practised in many cultures as a symbol of a girl's or
woman's progression through the various stages of life. They are also practiced
as courtship and fidelity vows between women.
6 Firenze. In the Biblioteca Laurenziana in Firenze you can see one of the earliest
surviving texts of Sappho. Inscribed on a terracotta pot, now broken, it is a copy
of Sappho’s Prayer to Aphrodite. Margaret Williamson. 1995. Sappho’s Immortal
Daughters, p. 57.
7 gossiping. Women gossip when we share news and important information. Like
many words associated with women it has pejorative uses. The word “gossip”
comes from “gob sibb”, “sibb” refers to kin, relation, special friend, someone
with whom you spend time and are close to. Gossip is also the name of a lesbian
magazine published in England by Onlywomen Press in the 1980s.
8 cafes. A great deal of lesbian life takes place in cafes. Wherever there are lesbian
communities, there are cafes.