What happens when a female writer invokes a female muse? Does something else happen? With Sappho's figures of desire, we have a different lesbian energy.
Shirley Geok-lin LimWhen I write, I put aside the heterosexual world to admit a muse that is a woman-loving-woman female.
Shirley Geok-lin LimAs a first-generation "Asian American woman," for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an "Asian American woman." Within this homogenizing labeling of an exotica, I knew there were entire racial/national/cultural/sexual-preferenced groups, many of whom find each other as alien as mainstream America apparently finds me.
Shirley Geok-lin LimWhen people say "the body," frequently they mean the literal body, the physical body.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim