![]() ![]() ![]() A promise that beyond the constricted world I knew at fifteen, I might instead inherit a future in which I could live and love in full daylight, that ‘whatever happens-this is. ![]() A promise that being queer didn’t have to mean a life scrabbling in shadows for transitory pleasures. And then came Adrienne Rich and her poem ‘(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered).’ Sex, yes, but sex held fast by love. My fundamental thesis in this paper is that the computer science education community must find a way to separate the essential characteristics of object-oriented programming from those accidental features that are merely artifacts of the particular ways in which technology is implemented today. Though I had sought lesbian life in other texts, all those I’d found centered around sex alone, around lonely lives in which I couldn’t-didn’t want to-see myself. ![]() two people together is a work / heroic in its ordinariness.’ Two women together, two writers. Despite nails jutting from the boards like punji sticks, I bellied my way to the edge and perched my book above the water: The Dream of a Common Language. I read and reread the central section of ‘21 Love Poems’: ‘without tenderness, we are in hell. Even at dawn, the only coolness was the dew on the grass, the just-cut blade-tips painting my ankles as I walked to the dock. "Central Florida in the ‘90s-tourists in mouse-ears and Benny Hinn preaching on TV, the culture stifling as the heat. ![]()
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