On Sat 16 May 2020, Ten Forty Matrix Dinner and Discussion became a book discussion per Zoom to give us all a break from Covid 19 Cabin Fever. A dozen of us zoomed to discuss what we were reading, listening to and watching. And we...
20 TIPS TO GET YOU STARTED What is already available See if any of your friends have a space in their group. Check to see if your local library runs any groups See if the local library has a notice board where groups can list and...
Moshi Moshi: Banana Yoshimoto. Japanese family story. Moshi Moshi is Japanese for the vague noises we make on the phone: yeah yeah, mmm,mmm. Try it on cold call phone calls! The Museum of Modern Love: Heather Rose. Slightly mad story about an unusual artist. Red Notice: Bill...
Story by Jan Aitken A week with Madame Pushka went totally against all my saner instincts. A whole week in my apartment with a querulous, demanding, fussy eater with a very uncertain temper was tantamount to a prison sentence, except that I would be out at...
Article by Pearlie McNeill Alas, alas, the sorry tale of the ill-fated spy. Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller film, Notorious, starring Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant, was released in 1946. It is a tale of love, spying and murder. The film has been re-released this year. (I am told...
by Niviaq Korneliussen, Virago Press 2019 Translated from Danish by Anna Halager. Review by Sylvia Kinder November 2019 The author, Niviaq Korneliussen is a proud Greenlander, 26 years old, a lesbian, and now a published writer with her first novel. Crimson, originally published in 2014, in her native...
By Kaye Paton Apparently my resilience is hanging in, waiting for an opportunity, and then moving forward towards new vistas with hope in my heart. My parents, second generation ‘Anglo-Aussies’ with small country town Protestant childhoods, juggled their own parent and sibling conflicts, and their tensions with...
Dinner and Discussion for Older Lesbians - Saturday 1 February 2020 Murder and Mayhem at Haberfield – Exploring Crime Fiction, with Pearlie McNeill Despite this distressing summer of bushfires, tragedies and extreme heat, 22 women found the energy to come to our newly renovated venue, Mervyn Fletcher...
Review by Pearlie McNeill The inspiration for this book came from the stories lesbians have shared over the years, on bushwalks, Bush Lemons’ bushwalks. Eighteen stories unfold, each one as intimate and compelling as the next. You can read these writers as friends, sitting across from you...
To give this large subject some shape, I decided to divide into stages – very rough cut but it may give an idea of the progression of our very own literature. Stage One: Silence and disaster – Back in the 50s and earlier The landmark book is...