Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am temporarily unable to leap. I will, however, be in prime leaping shape sometime late this summer. I'll warn everyone first.

The most beautiful images of all of us lesbians, leaping & cavorting, fill my mind every time I read the title of this thread. All of us in our many hued, many styles, many gendered splendor:-)

:blueheels:

Although I still consider myself a leaping lesbian, last Friday night at softball practice I realized that my softball glove is now 25 years old.

I agree. I just don't leap as high as I used to. Phooey!!

Leap? Ha.
Maybe after the advil kicks in.

*holds on to her dyke card so no one can wrench it away*

Kate Clinton is not funny.

Another challenge has been to figure out how to play softball while wearing bi-focals. And how to not get injured.
I had no idea how easy it all was when I was a hot young softball stud. Now i look across to the other dugout and see the kids looking at ME with sympathy--- just like I used to look at them.
It's kind of great to see how far we've all come.

It's not exactly leaping, but it's pretty darned close. Not only was I able to start riding my small spare motorcycle last Saturday, I was able to ride it an hour out of town this morning, successfully complete all the exercises required in the new ARC class, and then ride it home this evening. I'm triumphantly exhausted.

And I jumped in the air! It was a very small jump to point out something on the blackboard, but as soon as I did it I remembered that I'm a leaping lesbian again.

This leaping thing is certainly grounds for celebration. Tomorrow marks three months since my very serious accident. The final, (I think), broken bone count is 22 including 9 to my lumbar spine. And I jumped and rode my motorcycle today. The old bones have healed like fresh, young, new ones. Yay!

Well done and well earned!
Here's to more leaping, on and off bikes!

This calls for leaping with joy!

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Hey Leaping Lesbians!
There's some very interesting things happening on an organizational level... have a look--

Full press release: http://sashatgoldberg.wordpress.com/...ation-is-born/
(my snip)
"During its inaugural 2009 Conference in Oakland ButchVoices claimed it wanted to include all butch voices. However, a group of Steering Committee feminists left during the ’09 planning. Internal tension mounted again in 2010 when Cordova insisted upon inserting the words “feminist” and “lesbian” into the official Call-for-Submissions to the upcoming regional conferences. Although invited to serve on the Board as ButchVoice’s “sage elder”, Cordova’s value rapidly decreased when she disagreed with the Board, who proceeded to schedule their retreat during Cordova’s surgery.

Differences culminated when the Board Retreat met, without Cordova, and changed ButchVoice’s mission statement, shifting the original language of “butch women and trans folk” to “masculine of center people.” Cordova and Goldberg argued—unsuccessfully—for equal footing being given to “butch women and masculine of center people.” ButchVoice’s current mission statement says, “BUTCH Voices is a grassroots organization dedicated to all self-identified Masculine of Center people and our Allies.” (end of my snip)

What do you think about this?

WTH is “masculine of center people.” This dinosaur is wandering back to my cave....leaping all the way

It's interesting that they have replaced "butch," a historically lesbian/female identity, with the word "masculine." I suppose they think it's more "inclusive." I see this over and over. Being inclusive results in deleting references to women/female.

But actually, keeping "woman/female" central to organizing efforts is a very good way to assert an anti-oppression, anti-patriarchy, anti-homophobia mission. Too many queer organizers do not understand this.

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