Today is lesbian health day and so I feel the urge to share a little true vignette of my past and put an issue on the table…cervical smear tests. The jury was out medically as to whether I was eligible/ at risk and required a smear test as conventional penetrative sex was just not my [...]
This June was a month of double celebration in Norway. Firstly, the gender-neutral marriage law was passed, making Norway only the sixth country in the world to legalise same sex marriage. Furthermore, this was in the form of eradicating the gender specific language in the previous marriage law and rewriting the constitution. Secondly of course, [...]
I felt the need to put my proverbial tuppenceworth into the discussion on gay marriage, for two reasons: 1. Gay marriage is a crucial step in redefining the outdated patriarchal nuclear family and helping ensure that gay couples who so choose can live with certain rights. 2. I got married last month to my partner, [...]
My lover and I are that breed of non-breeders: namely a lesbian couple who adopt as many species as possible. Ironically, the concept of a substitute family didn’t cross our Sapphic minds until a friend’s assertion became a Eureka moment- only without the nudity or bubbles. Apropos the photo, of one of our clan: namely [...]
