Discussion group reports

Topics we have discussed at our bi-monthly meetings:

• Our experience of violence
• LesLit lights up our lives
• Lipstick Lesbians and Diesel Dykes: What are our clothes about?
• When it's my time, how do I want to be farewelled?
• Feminism - what does it mean to us today?
• Betty Friedan revisited

Short stories

• Four months
• I'll show you mine
• I recall love at the Roebourne races
• Traffic hazard
• Balloons do fly
• The verge
• Never eat a choc-top in the dark
• Revelation
• Xmas cracker
• The jogger
• The party
• I could tell

Articles

• Ageing is women's business
• The politics of assimilation
• Thousands of elderly lesbians in poverty
• Gay bars and strictly closeted lives
• Arthur and Martha about Adam and Eve
• A Boston marriage
• Menopause
• Hey! Look at me I'm grieving
• It's none of my business: gay and lesbian invisibility in aged care

Feminism

Older dykes recall the glory days of feminism. What attracted them to it and how it impacted on their lives.

• Pam Ledden

Poetry

• Reflections of an older Sappho
• Independence Day