The frequent dressing and undressing portrays a well-orchestrated cosplay where the exchange of dresses also renders a switch in their identities.

British television followed in its wake with Lip Service, a series heavily influenced by The L Word, and cutting edge LGBT drama Cucumber, Banana and Tofu. We honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' continuous connection to Country, waters, skies and communities. We had discovered, entered, and occupied this territory body and soul–or, as you might say, body and thought. Oh I knew how to make love to women, to want want want women… but when it came to loving in a way that was sustainable…to “loving with deep recognition” (which is what I decided early on feminism had to be about) I had everything to learn and in fact had a lot of things stacked against me. That awakening to everything: a new world vision, a new language, desire and agency, in short, that golden age of women in the late 60s and 70s to the mid-80s.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).

The textuality of the lesbian body, the diverse texts of fictional and/or corporeal lesbian bodies, even the writing of lesbian erotica are all at issue here.The L Word was the first mainstream series to place lesbians centre stage – it was the first to feature a lesbian couple who conceive a child through insemination and it was the first to attempt a broadly sympathetic portrayal of transgender experience in a sustained way. Weil : The irony in this, and it’s an irony that deeply informs my book, is that when it came to loving women I didn’t have a clue. Add to these factors the sad reality that one in four of us has been the victim of some form of sexual assault and sex becomes a minefield.