Tomboys
Tales of Dyke Derring-Do
edited by Lynne Yamaguchi and Karen BarberChaia Heller explains in verse how hard it is to be a boy, and then more verse: throwing a brick through her parents' window, only the brick's just a piece of paper that says
I'm lesbian. Jeanne Cordova was a big brother to her little brother Billy, until the taunts grew. Kris' sister had the very best weapon at her disposal
girl. Alison Bechdel shows how she learned to pray when she needed to get out of dancing. Janet Capone and her tomboy friends take their lot back from the boys by building a bike course. Lucy Jane Bledsoe loses her first love at the age of twelve when that friend learns the word
lesbian. Marta learns how to hit a baseball better than any boy when she listens to a stone. Interspersed with the poems, stories, comics, and photos are excerpts from autobiographies of tomboys. The contributors are tomboys and lesbians, labels which some wear and some shed.
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