in the beginning did nothing to do with the liking girls in fact interviewing being a tomboy was not about whom I liked it all he was about what I like climbing trees building forts playing any kind of game that involves throwing or hitting a ball and in the beginning for both me and my little sister growing up in Vermont countryside being a tomboy meant pulling on the boots and banging around together outside walking through dark Rich spring mud taking jumps on our bicycle vaulting up boards propped on boxes from evolution of a tomboy by Hillary Mullins. these tales of ducks deering do examine and celebrate tomboyhood and it's meaning for those tomboys who grew up to be lesbians the stories essay is poems and photographs collected here will provoke laughter tears thought memory and perhaps even a return to self readers will delight in both the commonalities and the varieties of experiences revealed in these tales told that humor of boldness clarity and above all love contributors include Allison Blanchard Susan Fox Rogers Mariah Burton Nelson Lucy James bledsoe Hillary Mullins and Lucy A Blume