title: The unfinished moon.
abstract: SUMMARY The author explores several questions. She asks: What does it mean to exist as a lesbian writer given that we have no lesbian homeland or ancestral tongue, little presence in the external narrative matrix, a scarcity of close friendships among ourselves, a lack of contact with younger lesbian writers, and an erasure of our lesbianism due to heterosexuals relating to us as "single" women in the literary community? If the intense individuation processes of establishing our lesbian identities are what we share more than our diverse lifestyles as lesbians-how do we enable a feminist-lesbian literary community and tradition to flourish?
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authors.lastname: Warland
keywords: Lesbian; collective presence; individuation; narrative; publishing; self-writing