Contents
Preface: Watching WOW—Jill Dolan
Introduction: Secret WOW—Holly Hughes
Introduction: Liberté, Egalité, Lesbianité—Carmelita Tropicana
WOW Women in Their Own Words: Brave New World—Group Interview by Alisa Solomon with WOW Collective Members (1984)
Song: “It’s Hard to Be a Dyke in NYC”—Lynn Hayes and Debra Miller’s band, the Useless Fems
Introduction— Holly Hughes
Split Britches (1981)— Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw, and Deb Margolin
Fear of Laughing on the Lower East Side (1984)— Alice Forrester
WOW Women in Their Own Words— Alice Forrester
Waaay Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1986)— Alison Rooney
Paradykes Lost (1988)— Lisa Kron for the Five Lesbian Brothers
WOW Women in Their Own Words: A Fine Bromance— Group Interview by Holly Hughes and Carmelita Tropicana with the Five Lesbian Brothers, Maureen (Moe) Angelos, Babs Davy, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey, and Lisa Kron (2000)
Hamlet (1989): Scripted after Shakespeare’s Hamlet— Deb Margolin
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (1992)— Madeleine Olnek
WOW Women in Their Own Words— An Interview with Madeleine Olnek by Holly Hughes (June 2000)
Introduction— Holly Hughes
The Lady Dick (1985)— Holly Hughes
Pickaxe (1986)— Ana Maria Simo
O Darn! The World Is Not a Safe Place for Little Buttercups (1991)— Moe Angelos and Dominique Dibbell
WOW Women in Their Own Words— Susan Young
Introduction— Holly Hughes
Memories of the Revolution/Memorias de la Revolucíon (1987)— Carmelita Tropicana and Uzi Parnes
How to Say Kaddish with Your Mouth Shut (1988)— Claire Moed
Threads from the Tailor’s Grand Daughters (1989)— Sharon Jane Smith
WOW Women in Their Own Words—An Interview with Sharon Jane Smith by Carmelita Tropicana (December 2001)
Feeling Blue (1988)— Eileen Myles
WOW Women in Their Own Words— Eileen Myles
Women and Children First: Outstanding Perk or Tool of Oppression? (1992)— Babs Davy
WOW Women in Their Own Words: As the World Turns— Group Interview (2004)
Contributors
Further Reading
Acknowledgments