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6 purple flowers. Purple flowers have a long association with lesbians. From violets,
amaranth, hyacinth, narcissus, purple flowers have been worn to indicate that
one does not intend to marry. For more on this see Judy Grahn. 1984. Another
Mother Tongue, p. 8. Purple also indicates a transformative state, the µ, the
in-between, a state familiar to lesbians.
7 labrys. The labrys, (Gr. ) is the double axe which was used in Minoan
Crete. Lesbians took up the symbol as representing our sexuality during the
1970s. The labrys in the Minoan era was associated with women. Symbolic
connections have been made between the labrys, the butterfly and women’s
genitalia. Unfortunately, as with many ancient symbols, it has also been used for
fascist purposes. Mussolini used the symbol of the double axe, and in Italy today
it still carries fascist connotations.
8 waiting. Death is infinitely patient, as The Black Piglet discovers in Suniti
Namjoshi’s Building Babel, pp. 14-16.
9 Lethe. Lethe, “forgetting” looms large for lesbians who are forgotten or written
out of history. Forgetting can come from the fog of complacency.