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The Day I Realized I Was in Love with Another Woman
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Leave a Comment After the Irish Independence newspaper mentioned my book Married Women Who Love Women in an article called “The Day I Realized I Was in Love With Another Woman”, I got an email from Newstalk radio, an Irish radio station. The interview is scheduled for their afternoon show with Sean Moncrieff on Monday, August 23 at 4:00 PM GMT or 11:00 AM EST. and the station is Newstalk 106-108 FM Dublin
The newspaper piece can be seen on www.independent.ie
One woman quoted in the piece said that when she was thirteen, (46 years ago,) the word ‘gay’ didn’t exist in Ireland. Girls didn’t even know anything about their periods, let alone their sexuality.”
I wasn’t surprised by that. According to David Wyatt, between the years of 1961 and 1970, one gay character was documented on a television show. From 1991 to 2000, gay characters numbered 306.
More MWLW in the news!
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Leave a Comment On Monday, at 2:00PM I’m being interviewed by Power Women Magazine, an online publication about women by women for women and issues important to women . Their website is http://www.powerwomenmagazine.com.
This was arranged before the American Psychological Association’s Annual Convention brought the topic of “The Fluidity of Female Sexuality” to the attention of the public. The interviews in relation to this now include the Toronto Star and today, Forum, a Polish weekly requested a photo of the cover of “Married Women Who Love Women” to accompany a story they’re doing on the same topic.
Bent Pages: August 14!
I’ll be doing a talk at the Bent Pages bookstore in Staten Island on August 14 at 1:00PM in regard to my book A Writer’s Journey: What to Know Before, During, and After Writing a Book.
MWLW in the news…
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Leave a Comment And now my book Married Women Who Love Women will be an integral part of a talk on this topic at the American Psychological Association next week in San Diego.
I’m hoping that all of this will bring to light the fact that each of us has many different dimensions and that’s all right.
The Fluidity of Female Sexuality
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Leave a Comment I think I was early when the first edition of Married Women Who Love Women was published in 1998. The topic was still taboo. Women were hiding the book behind the jacket covers of other books or hiding it away. The climate was changing when the second edition came out in 2008 and now the new catch phrase is ”The Fluidity of Female Sexuality.” I’m not sure when that started but I do know that many more women are following the celebrity wave and coming out, especially in middle age.
I just saw The Guardian, the English newspaper that interviewed me . An entire section of the newspaper was devoted to the coming out of married and older women. You can find it on this site: www.guardian.co.uk
Right after the article appeared I was interviewed by the BBC. You will be able to listen to it on Saturday on BBC website: www.bbc.co.uk (Or you can download it as a Podcast ‘Newshour’ from iTunes.)
Then there was another message on my email – a newspaper in Canada wants to do an interview, but they asked if the book has been translated into French, so I don’t know if that will come about.
Update: I just did the Canadian interview and it will be in the La Presse in Montreal, Canada (a daily newspaper) tomorrow July, 30, 2010 (in French).
My hope is that all of this attention will make it easier for those women still struggling to find and be their authentic selves.
Why It’s Never Too Late to Be a Lesbian
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Leave a Comment I was interviewed for the Guardian for an article titled “Why It’s Never too Late to be a Lesbian.”
The article can be found here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/22/late-blooming-lesbians-women-sexuality/print
Speaking Engagement in Staten Island 8/14
I’ll be speaking at the Bent Pages Bookstore on Staten Island on August 14 at 1:00PM. Their address is 391 Van Duzer Street, Staten Island, NY, 10304 and their phone number is 917-952-2448
Thank you to the IWWG
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Leave a Comment I’m thrilled to say that early this morning I completed the first draft of a mystery I started several years ago while at the IWWG conference. Who knew that a workshop using a little visualization would come to this? I saw a pregnant woman walking over a rise on a beach and suddenly The Child Taker, a mystery that takes place in Coney Island, was born.
It was at that same conference that my first book, Married Women Who Love Women came about when a workshop leader asked for possible book titles. Too lazy to think of one, I offered the title of an article I was working on at the time. Other attendees had so many questions for me that I realized a book needed to be written.
And my latest published book, A Writer’s Journey, What to Know Before, During, and After Writing a Book came about because of a workshop I started teaching for the IWWG conference. I am so looking forward to our conference at Brown this year.
Interview Tonight!
I’m going to be interviewed tonight at 8:15 (Friday, May 28) on an Australian Radio station. The topic will be my book A Writer’s Journey: What to Know Before, During, and After Writing a Book. I was interviewed for my book Married Women Who Love Women on that station before.
If you’d like to listen to the interview live you can go to www.joy.org.au and click on “Listen Live”.
To listen to the pod cast of the show (usually posted the Wed after) go here
We have a long way to go…
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Leave a Comment I just spoke as part of an informal panel based on my book Married Women Who Love Women. The panel consisted of me and two women in different stages of their own journeys. I realized that what I love about speaking at events like these is that the people who come actually come to hear what you have to say.Thirty women came to this one.
Many had already bought my book and they listened to my every word. There were many who sat with tears in their eyes as I touched on issues they were just beginning to deal with. So many women said, “thank you for writing your book. It was so important to me,” or, “your book helped me so much.”
The day reminded me that even thought we, as a society, have come so far in our acceptance of gay and lesbian people, many women are still going through a great deal of pain and we have a long way to go.
