To Dyke or Not to Dyke: Reclamation of LGBTQ Slang
Dyke has long been a slur used for lesbian women. Do we continue giving it power or do we reclaim it for our LGBTQ community?
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5 min readFeb 9, 2022
I have had the word dyke hurled at me for as long as I have been out of the closet. As a masculine-presenting lesbian woman, I hold a certain disdain for the usage of the…