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88 21 cities in our minds. The art of memory, an art required by those interested in pursuing lesbian history and culture, involves creating a mental space, a place through which the mind can saunter at will, noticing elements of the place and its people. So long as these elements and people are tagged as memory joggers, the city in the mind can provide the possibility of speaking at length without notes, other than those places through which one is walking. See Frances Yates. 2001. The Art of Memory. 22 women can hold to. Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies and her Medieval Woman’s Mirror of Honour both outline the ways in which a woman can live profitably in a city. It takes women’s experience as central, and builds codes of conduct and laws upon this experience. She does not pretend that life will be easy, instead she prepares women for the inevitable adversity with which they will be confronted. In 1905 Bengal, Rokeya Hossian pondered these same questions and explored them in her story “Sultana’s Dream”. See Rokeya Sakhawat Hossian. 1988. Sultana’s Dream and Selections from The Secluded Ones. 23 our bodies giving shape to brick and stone. The above works of imagination can be set against the archaeological records as described by Giti Thadani in her travels around India to discover ancient lesbian archaeologies. Giti Thadani. 2004. Moebius Trip. Two fine ancient examples of buildings which reflect the shapes of women’s bodies are the Temple of Tarxien on the island of Malta and Skara Brae in Scotland. The shapes of these and other tombs and dwellings are shown in Cristina Biaggi. 1994. Habitations of the Great Goddess. p. 127. For a lesbian story centred on Skara Brae see Cathie Dunsford 2001. Song of the Selkies. 24 rooms burrowed into the earth. The Hypogeum of the Temple of Hal Saflieni in Malta, is the largest of all underground buildings, encompassing 600 square metres and extending more than 10 metres into the earth. The Hypogeum consists of one or more egg shaped chambers situated underground. Cristina Biaggi. 1994. Habitations of the Great Goddess. p. 29. A fictional rendering of such underground dwellings appears in Sally Gearheart’s utopian novel, The Wanderground. She creates the Remembering Rooms which are fashioned to resemble the cochlea of the inner ear (they are called the Kochlias). Sally Gearheart. 1979. The Wanderground. This novel was very influential for many lesbians in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Remembering is an act of resistance for lesbians, for without active remembering we can forget or not recognise even the lovers we have had. See Andrea Dworkin’s short story “The simple story of a lesbian girlhood” in The New Woman’s Broken Heart (1980). 25 rent by strife. Monique Wittig’s San Francisco, as depicted in Across the Acheron, is deeply divided, and the divisions include the fights and arguments of lesbians who hold to different politics. Similarly, the zappers in Building Babel show the divisions in the city of Babel. They possess shiny steel claws of varying voltage; the higher the voltage, the higher the social position or closeness to Queen Alice. Suniti Namjoshi. 1996. Building Babel, pp. 129-131. 26 unscrupulous women. Queen Alice in Building Babel is one such character. She has determined to be a dictator and insists on total loyalty from her followers. Reminiscent of the Red Queen, she is quick to order, “Off with their heads.” Suniti Namjoshi. 1996. Building Babel, pp. 104-140. 27 not even lesbians. An ironic statement to say the least. Lesbians, of course, are as frail as any other group of people. Our dispossessed status sometimes confers an advantage of insight, for some it simply continues the violence of our lives. One can celebrate a culture, such as lesbian culture, without holding to the proposition that all its members are wonderful individuals. Gillian Hanscombe explores the idea of evil in lesbian feminists in her novel. Gillian Hanscombe. 1995. Figments of a Murder.
89 there are cities in our minds 21 some we have invented cities built solely for women cities inhabited by women cities with rules which women can hold to 22 the architecture based on the bodies of women our bodies giving shape to brick and stone 23 some are underground cities rooms burrowed into the earth 24 some of these cities are rent by strife 25 and argument or are ruled by unscrupulous women 26 we’re not perfect I say not even lesbians 27
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the Butterfly Effect Susan Hawthorn
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Contents note to sappho vii The But
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3 Strange tractors It’s an ancien
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5 We stand in a place where flowers
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15 we line the shelves of our homes
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17 summer with fire in the nostrils
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19 Empurpled 1 physicists speak of
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21 to the moon 5 with desire satisf
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23 we play pool billiards and snook
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25 harpies sirens birds of prey les
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27 In the Prisons we are known as c
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29 it’s still happening just two
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31 when the moon rises full in Scor
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33 my friend Daisy killed her husba
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35 some live in prisons without wal
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Page 53 and 54: 43 Firenze in honour of Jacqui Stoc
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144 modern day swan-maidens. Here a
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152 Mementos for Sindhu, she says,
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154 but not the silence between us.
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158 they say, but not back. The ris
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166 25 Jan We talk of place, of mig
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174 o In Goa, tourists tear along o
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180 Poorvashada and Uttarshada— f
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182 Mourning my father, the stillne
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186 4 Feb In this one speeding car,
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188 I can haggle too, but not here.
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194 Second Sutra 26 May 2004, Delhi
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198 o The women of Jagori share lun
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200 29 May We attend a reading in A
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222 The Day of My Crucifixion for a
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230 Once long ago they said I was a
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232 women falling, falling … We a
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235 Bibliography Abbot, Sidney and
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237 —. 1989. Medieval Woman’s M
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239 —. 1990. Lecture, UCLA, May 5
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241 Jay, Karla. 1999. Tales of the
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243 Radicalesbians. 1970. “The Wo
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245 Undset, Sigrid. 1951/1980. Kris
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247 Acknowledgements Some of the po
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