This study employs membership categorization analysis to elucidate how five racially diverse women from their mid-twenties to early forties, amongst which four self-identified lesbians, resort to various self-determined, revolutionary female gender and sexuality identity categories in personal narratives to build the device of womanhood. These revolutionary categories illustrate a variety of female gender and sexuality identities and finally defy heteronormative female identity ideas whilst concurrently building a lesbian counterpublic. Thus, the personal experiences of these women, as linked via daily narratives, appear very political. The five racially diverse women include four self-identified lesbians and one heterosexual and range in age from mid-twenties to early forties. Analysis of their two hour audio recorded interaction illustrates that gender and sexuality cannot be understood as a binary difference between men and women. These women use revolutionary categories, defined on their own terms rather than by outsiders, to characterize women they encounter in their personal experience (lesbian and otherwise). The revolutionary categories exemplify a diversity of female gender and sexuality identities and ultimately challenge heteronormative conceptions of female identity while simultaneously constructing a lesbian counterpublic. Thus, the personal experiences of these women, as related through everyday narratives, turn out to be highly political.