a fierce , stinging sense of injustice burst through sukhvinder 's misery , her fear and her self-loathing ; it swept aside that tangle of worries and terrors that encased her daily ; she thought of krystal and her mates , waiting to charge ; she thought of fats , whispering poisonous words from behind her in every maths lesson , and of the message that she had wiped off her facebook page the previous evening : les-bian-ism n. sexual orientation of women to women .