I liked a lot of the stories included in here and felt like I got a really good grasp on the variety of lesbian writing from this time period and earlier. A lot of the "short stories" are actually excerpts pulled from books, not stand-alone stories, but most of the selections were done expertly enough that I didn't feel like I was lost when reading them. I was really impressed with how this collection pulled from many countries outside of Europe and included a good number of South Asian and African authors, and the blurbs before each selection were great at providing background on the author as well as the environments in which they were publishing stories. So many of the authors were completely new to me, and I'm excited to seek out more work from them. Stars were docked for including a story by an Israeli author.

fave stories/selections: 'Caribbean Chameleon' by Makeda Silvera, 'Looking for Petronilla' by Emma Donoghue (one of the only fantastical stories), 'They Came At Dawn' by Karen Williams, 'The Civil War' by Yasmin V. Tambiah, 'Red Azalea' by Anchee Min, 'The Child Manuela' by Christa Winsloe, 'Waters' by Achy Obejas, 'The Microcosm' by Maureen Duffy (lots of great stuff w/ butch/femme dynamics in this one), and 'Aphrodite' s Vision' by Elena Georgiou