About the Author
Reblogs of a vegan hippie dyke dork Lesbian Overlord. Includes books, lesbians, Brittana, Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire slayer/Whedonverse, Xena: Warrior Princess, The Daily Show and Stephen Colbert, Sailor Moon, and general feminist/queer/liberal posts. Full disclosure: I am cisgender and white.
I run the book blog The Lesbrary, which has les/bi/etc book reviews and news, plus tons of links for finding les/bi/etc books to read.
I also run Fuck Yeah Lesbian Literature, Eff Yeah Hufflepuff (aka Hufflepuffs Make Better Lovers), Fuck Yeah Koyczan, Shoosh Yeah Cam Shaykett (Sam/Carly of iCarly), and Vegan Recipes for Later.
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But as traditions go, it is a peculiar one. One reason is that—if I may state the obvious—lesbian storylines begin with two or more women, rather than a man and a woman. This means that gender roles are up for grabs. Those who write about love between the sexes, from the book of Genesis on, have relied on a certain consensus about the differences between husband and wife, say, or lover and mistress, or rake and ingenue. Even if they bend those hallowed cultural rules, they are playing a familiar game. And those who write about love between men—although the subject is fraught with danger—have the classical past to draw on, and especially the Platonic ideal of the older lover/mentor and the beautiful young beloved/protoge. Those who write about love between women have no agreed starting point.
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