Dear Battle Axe,

Do you think most people are honest about their weight on their driver's license or on any other official documents?-Weightless in Woodside

Dear Weightless,

I would say as honest as they are about anything else. For instance when you go for your annual physical, the doctor may ask how many pats of butter you use daily, how many drinks per week, or what kind of birth control you are using....View entire story

Fall 1978, I'm 19 years old, a sophomore at Chico State University in Northern California.  I'm an Art Major and I'm also enrolled in a Fiction Writing Course.  I write in the first person as a man and talk about chicks I like to have sex with-foreshadowing.Academically, I'm thrilled. The work I'm creating is unique and it's getting recognized. But emotionally, I'm...oh what's the word...really fucked up. I'm inside my head-socially awkward. I don't feel right in my own body. I feel something is missing. But during this time of internal conflict-I have a boyfriend. He's a nice guy and he buys me groceries, pot and booze.....

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Penny House and I had been best friends since we were four years old. It was 1975, we were in our mid-twenties, had just recently come out, and were ready to take on the world.

All over the United States Lesbians were getting together to make culture - music, theater, art, film, poetry and all kinds of media. In New York we were right in the thick of it and enjoying every minute. We decided that making Dyke A Quarterly would be our contribution.

DYKE was...
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Is this really what our generation had in mind when they marched in the streets, sat in doorways and rotundas, picketed and posted handbills - to have a generation of women who became politicians wanting to take away women's rights and destroy the economic and social equalities we've gained over the last 40 years?

I remember taking a course in college called Women...View entire story