Dykette: A Novel

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Creating characters – instead of, like, creating a world – sounded a little bit more fun than going out into the world at that moment, so I decided to sort of turn the project on its head and make it a novel. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights.

it’s written in this fun and very…’modern’ way by someone that actually knows what internet dykes and other queers are up to and not just in a “hello fellow internet crew!

Part of being a dykette is being in thrall to someone else’s reality, getting to reality by way of someone else’s perspective. Davis’s Dykette reads like a taxonomy of queer theory, references, and history, while offering up wholly new words and takes on contemporary lesbian life. Still, Sasha, Jesse, and their friends live in the same world the rest of us do, in which marrying your partner, joining households and having a kid or two are qualifications for being officially “grown up. The other couple is in their 40s, and the divide between them is vast despite being only a generation apart.

Perhaps failing to grow up by the world’s limiting hetero standards only becomes a real problem when it prevents someone from working through their childhood wounds — because unless you put in real effort to process whatever might have gone wrong with your earliest human attachments, those pains can and will haunt your adult relationships. Her nose blunted into an Anglo-Saxon snub dyed a shade deeper than the rest of her silky swirls of facial fur.But long-term monogamous partnership, no matter how loving and long-lasting, and no matter how much capitalism wants us reliant on the private family, can’t be expected to fulfill our every need. I guess there’s, like, a personal edge to that question, which is like, What does femme mean for me in particular?