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9 secret meetings. There are many places where lesbianism is still outlawed. The
shadowless informant is never far away in these places.
10 the bridge making it their home. The bridge is a between place, a place where
connections are made or unmade. Gloria Anzaldúa refers to it as “nepantla, a
Nahuatl word meaning tierra entre medio” in her preface “(Un)natural bridges,
(Un)safe spaces” which opens the anthology This Bridge We Call Home: Radical
Visions for Transformation (2002), p. 1.
11 trapped souls. A reference to Monique Wittig's vision of Heaven, Purgatory and
Hell in Across the Acheron.
12 breads high tin loaves and baguettes. Judy Grahn explores the bread metaphor in
The Work of a Common Woman (1978).
13 Boston. “A Boston marriage is an affectional, but non-sexual” relationship
between two women. See Kay Turner. 1996. Dear Sappho: A Legacy of Lesbian Love
Letters, 1996. p. 14. For a longer treatment see Lillian Faderman’s Surpassing the
Love of Men, pp. 178-203.
14 butterfly. “Blue butterfly morning glory heart”. These are the first and last words
of a piece by Jeffner Allen, “Passion in the Gardens of Delight”. In Judith
Barrington (Ed.). 1991. An Intimate Wilderness, pp. 279-283. “You are present at
the ceremony of the vulvas lost and found … The vulvas are represented by blue
yellow green black violet red butterflies, their bodies are the clitorises, their
wings are the labia, their fluttering represents the throbbing of the vulvas.”
Monique Wittig, 1975. The Lesbian Body, p. 135-6.
15 fruit and vegetables. Melbourne playwright, Sara Hardy, has written “Queer
Fruit”, a play which draws on the fruity side of lesbian relationships and has a
recurring chant: “Queer fruit, mixed with Time, / Queer time, dangerous
pleasure, / Queer, bi, gay, lesbian, tranni, / Queer fruit for so many.”
16 Ibu women. The Ibu of Nigeria fought the Women's War of 1929 against the British
colonialists with pots and pans. For more on this see Flora Nwapa's Cassava Song
and Rice Song, 1986. As M. Jacqui Alexander reminds us, the Ibu (also known as
Ibo) were captured and transported as slaves to the Georgia Sea Islands. M.
Jacqui Alexander. 2002. “Remembering This Bridge, Remembering Ourselves:
Yearning, Memory and Desire.” This Bridge We Call Home, pp. 81-103.