Weeding at Dawn: A Lesbian Country Life

by Hawk Madrone

Swept up in the back-to-the-land lesbian movement of the 1970s, author Hawk Madrone left her fast-track life in San Francisco behind and moved to the hills of southern Oregon. Weeding at Dawn: A Lesbian Country Life is a collection of her personal essays, poems, and creative nonfiction stories, and also includes a beautiful photo-essay of color photographs, all created during the quarter century in which she has lived at Fly Away Home, her womensland in those rugged hills.

Genres: Nonfiction, Queer, Lesbian

198 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2000

Reviews

[Bee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fascinating to read as a 2020s lesbian. Madrone’s stories of her little lesbian country life are inspiring and aspirational as someone who hopes to live in an intentional community half as well-run as Fly Away Home. Her DIY attitude about everything was genuinely fascinating and I hope to learn from her. Do I think I would be friends with Madrone? Probably not, given her lesbian exclusionary views and gender essentialism. But I think I could learn a lot from her