Dykette: A Novel

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In the queer world, where language, concepts, and terms describing sexuality and gender are both supremely important and constantly in flux, new additions to the lexicon are lapped up feverishly. The Russian figure skater will be stripped of any titles, awards, and prizes earned after her positive sample was collected, including Olympic medals. Is there any greater fantasy than the expectation we should get our most fundamental human needs met by a single person? The changes in pronouns, the controversy that the characters are going through online (" how could she be a TERF when Twitter alleged she wasn't even a feminist? It was the kind of nose she’d so often wished for growing up, but she saw now that it was all wrong on her face—a snub nose made her look asshole-ish, elitist.

Part of being a dykette is being in thrall to someone else’s reality, getting to reality by way of someone else’s perspective. Gays hated overhead lighting; Jules, their host and the house’s owner, had let the original ceiling fixture dust over, taped down the light switches. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights.Both the boi and the dykette have a deep fear of abandonment and can strike out viciously when threatened. I’m really excited for Homebodies by Tembe Denton-Hurst, and Couplets by my friend Maggie Milner was huge for me also. What most impressed me about this work is that it feels written for queer readers and doesn't shy away from more nuanced aspects of queer identity and culture; it's rare to see a he/him butch in traditional publishing, for example, but it works so well here.

another tiny note is that there are also lots of allusions to the dirtbag left / Red Scare scene which I felt ashamed of understanding so well— I really hope darcy wasn’t based on the decidedly non-lesbian dasha nekastrova. You may go into it thinking it’s a silly fun satire about nyc lesbians but in fact it is actually sick, twisted, and perverted.

Davis’s new novel reads like a taxonomy of queer theory, references, and history, while offering up wholly new words and takes on contemporary lesbian life. indeed, i kind of despised this book from the first page, and yet I slogged my way through it because as a Literary Lesbian I felt like I had to. Mediated by the Grinch filter, Sasha’s face was steely, its aspirational wickedness intercepting a darling, doe-eyed innocence. In Jenny Fran Davis’s novel Dykette, protagonist Sasha guards her high-femme identity so jealously from her rival and frenemy Darcy, it feels for all the world as if a gender quota has been issued on the Hudson, New York weekend estate where they find themselves. A hilarious, astute, and captivating tour of a young femme’s interior life over the course of one long weekend upstate.

With propulsive plotting and sexy, wickedly entertaining prose, Jenny Fran Davis captures the vagaries of desire and the many devastating places in which we seek recognition.When a pair of older, richer lesbians--prominent news host Jules Todd and her psychotherapist partner, Miranda--invites Sasha and Jesse to their country home for the holidays, they're quick to accept.