N D’A’s Reviews > Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line > Status Update

“some days I think that writing about the logbook is only a self-serving act a way to talk about myself.” … the self awareness is palpable

at least Elizabeth Lovatt has good taste in queer film - kissing Jessica stein, but I’m a cheerleader, ginger snaps

“Trached Dykes eat pussy without comin’ up for air”

weary … close to dnf

“for some black women zami was a preferred descriptor…still in use today…especially for lesbians descended from African Caribbean nations … Audrey Lord, made it popular in her…1982 biomythography…She uses the word to describe women who love and have sex with other women… the inspiration behind Zamimass which began in the late 1980s as an alt Christmas celebration for the black lesbian community.”

this book is not about lesbian lines, this book is about the author

this is profoundly irritating

“even if I wanted to, I cannot share the real calls because they’re already lost a time. All I have is the trace they left behind in the volunteers call logs, and so to return a voice to them, I will require an intervention, not with the true story, but a story to write about the logbook will require an exchange of fact and fiction, but also of my life, and there is layering of truth and could be truth.” :(

fictionalizations

so far over intellectualizing everything