Discussion group reports
Topics we have discussed at our bi-monthly meetings:
- Our experience of violence
- LesLit lights up our lives
- Lipstick Lesbians and Diesel Dykes: What are our clothes about?
- When it's my time, how do I want to be farewelled?
- Feminism - what does it mean to us today?
- Betty Friedan revisited
- Your health in your (clean) hands
Short stories
Stories published on this website are derived from the imagination of the writer. Olderdykes.org does not necessarily endorse the views expressed by the authors. While some stories may use the names of people, places or things, the stories themselves are completely fictional. This site is intended as a place to freely publish creative fiction stories by older lesbians.
- The beach at Windang
- The man
- Four months
- I'll show you mine
- I recall love at the Roebourne races
- Traffic hazard
- Balloons do fly
- The verge
- Never eat a choc-top in the dark
- Revelation
- Xmas cracker
- The jogger
- The party
- I could tell
Articles
- Ageing is women's business
- The politics of assimilation
- Thousands of elderly lesbians in poverty
- Gay bars and strictly closeted lives
- Arthur and Martha about Adam and Eve
- A Boston marriage
- Menopause
- Hey! Look at me I'm grieving
- It's none of my business: gay and lesbian invisibility in aged care
Feminism
Older dykes recall the glory days of feminism. What attracted them to it and how it impacted on their lives.
Poetry
4:flaunt
4:flaunt is for flaunting the brilliance of lesbian writing in Australia today. Bumper 90 page issue out now.
Participating
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Contributing
If you have written a story, poem or academic article, or if you read something that you think we would like to read, email your contribution to contact.
Newsletter
The latest exciting edition of the bimonthly newsletter is available as a pdf download, for viewing online as a Flash eBook, or as an epub download.
Experiences
In the mid-1990s a group shared their experiences at Ten Forty dinner and discussion evenings. Their stories were recorded on tape and now we've made them into a podcast.