Citations:zami

English citations of zami

• 1993, Marjorie Procter-Smith, Janet Roland Walton, Women at Worship: interpretations of North American diversity, page 128:

  Because the term "lesbian" often projects Euro-American women's history, movement, and politics, we refer to ourselves as "Zamis." [...] Lorde describes Zamis as "women who survived the absence of sea-faring men easily."

• 2000, Cassie Premo Steele, Remembering "The Great Mother of Us All", in Gendered Memories, page 82:

  Donald Hill writes, "One informant claimed that virtually every wife whose husband had gone away several years or more is a zami" (280). Further, the women very rarely stop lesbianism once they start (Smith 200).

• 2003, Jonathan Goldberg, Tempest in the Caribbean, page 76:

  Silvera adds "zami" to her lexicon of "man royal" and "sodomite" in her story "Baby": "‘I know what I am,’ continued Baby, ‘I’m a lesbian. A zami. A sodomite. A black-skinned woman.’"

• 2004, Rosamund Elwin, quoted in Sexing the Caribbean: gender, race, and sexual labor by Kamala Kempadoo, page 47:

  Whether the word was used as a noun or a verb, it was understood that a zami was intimate with other women or another woman.