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the wind/door by Jane Barnes
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the wind/door by Jane Barnes
JANE BARNES, The Door of Spring
from: My Lover is a Woman. Contemporary Lesbian Love Poetry, ed. Lesléa Newman (1996)
Dance up a storm. And if a scary dyke looks too long at you, start picking the polish off your nails or burst into tears and beg her to take you home.
Jane Barnes, How to Dress Like a Femmy Dyke
💬 + Steve Rogers only rescued Jane Barnes from the Red Skull because he was in love with her
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"Some version of that rumor has been going around pretty much from the day we met. No matter how many times we both deny it--or have relationships with other people--it keeps coming back to life. Try to accept that a man and a woman can have deeply platonic feelings for each other without wanting to sleep together. I saved her because Jane Barnes is the love of my life, no question, but I'll never be in love with her and she'll never be in love with me. Our relationship isn't missing anything just because there's no romance."
She said, Wear my leather jacket, a looser sweater. Take off that lipstick, don’t fuss with your hair. Wear jeans and boots. That ought to do it.
I still had stockings stuffed like seaweed in packages, and nylon pants that made my crotch itch without desire.
I still had black high heels I bought to make me look all business, but I couldn’t get to the business of not dressing for men.
She told me what they’d like, those scary dykes. I took these notes. Wanted to learn real bad.
"How To Dress Like A Scary Dyke" (1977), Jane Barnes