Browsing Archive: September, 2009

Madam Finds Love With Maid?

Posted by ulla on Monday, September 14, 2009, In : stereotypes 


Yet another idiotic headline by South Africa's Daily Sun newspaper - and since their idiotic website is under idiotic construction, I couldn't find out anything about the story.  And nope, I couldn't buy the newspaper, it was late on Sunday, driving through a rural bit of the Eastern Cape.

Given my country's history of apartheid and that old madam and maid concept, I would, in fact, be interested to know the story - but not from a snotrag tabloid's point of view.  I also question the word us...

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Calling all writers:

Posted by ulla on Friday, September 11, 2009, In : dykestyle 
I was asked to spread the word ... so here you go!
 

"Calling all aspiring writers... Send me your lesbian-content short stories to be included in publication. Not more than 2000 words, not shorter than 400 words.


Any genre except poetry. Coming out stories, bi-racial relationships, butch-femme etc, South African content will be a major plus. Erotica is acceptable, as are transgender issues.


Pseudonyms will be used upon request, though nothing will be printed without full details of writer. ...


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Yet another stupid newspaper headline

Posted by ulla on Friday, September 11, 2009, In : queer 
Driving through the city the other day, one of the newspaper headline posters yelled, "TV'S GAY KISS!" from the side of the road.  My rantometer just blew up instantly.  It's not as if it was the first such headline, it certainly won't be the last.  Every time there's a gay kiss on TV (here and in the UK, at least), the media has a field day.

Why?

Gay marriage is legal now.  And surely it isn't news that queers kiss?  Well obviously it is.  For all the irritating heterosexuals who go around pon...

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another emo dyketoon

Posted by ulla on Wednesday, September 9, 2009, In : queer 

"as soon as you're out of the cocoon you're juggling euphoria and vertigo"

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To shave or not to shave ...

Posted by ulla on Saturday, September 5, 2009, In : stereotypes 


After enough years, thinking up new dyke opinion pieces to write becomes a little more challenging.  Address the stereotypes, lament the hatred, joke about dyke drama ... blah blah blah.  One of my three readers said (and I quote), "Oi feminist, write about hair - I want to throw the razor away."  My personal opinion of leg, armpit and pube shaving and waxing and electrolysis and so on is, if you want to do it, do; if not, don't.

Most queer women I talk to these days say they're fans of shavin...

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iDyke


Weekly columnist for Q back when it was owned by the Mail & Guardian, regular columnist for Queerlife in 2008, as well as contributing to MambaGirl, Cherrygrrl, Gayspeak and other websites, I decided it was about time I collected it all in one place, so I can see what I've done and hopefully keep doing new stuff.
Somewhere along the way, I got a severe case of the Tumblrs ...
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