Darshana mustered the courage to admit her attraction to women and was immediately directed to see a doctor, get “hormone pills,” and change back to “normal.”Īmelia, a successful writer whose wife received a serious cancer diagnosis. Leah befriended a secular woman whose “softness a sound that filled ears.” Her friend’s tender love inspired Leah to leave Hassidic life behind.ĭarshana, an Indian woman of marriageable age who was instructed to marry the man chosen by her parents. Leah, a married Hasidic Jew with 7 children. Like Walsh’s previous anthology, Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write About Leaving Men For Women, Greetings From JANELAND is populated with stories about women leaving men for women, and about people who broke through social and cultural barriers to stand in their truth. Which is why Candace Walsh and Barbara Straus Lodge’s new anthology, Greetings from JANELAND: Women Write More About Leaving Men For Women, is so refreshing. And it took her a long time to come to terms with her sexuality.
She had known for a long time that she was gay. His mom left his dad for a woman when she was in her forties. My co-author, Paul Thomas, M.D., grew up in the Methodist church. But personally, I think sexuality and attraction happen on a continuum and that what matters most is the person, not his or her or their gender. I didn’t tell the soccer posse that I dated women in college, that I feel as comfortable flirting with women as I do with men, that I could easily have settled down with a woman if I had met the right one. “I like it when cute girls make moony eyes at me!”Įveryone laughed. “You don’t look like a lesbian!” Nicole said.
Now all the soccer ladies were listening.
She’s married (to a man) and lives in the town north of mine, which is a little more conservative than our hippy haven. “Wait, what?” Nicole sounded taken aback. “Looking good!” Nicole said, rubbing the back of my neck. I got my hair cut short a few months ago.
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