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Plutôt que de réduire le féminisme à des revendications faites à l’État, au patron, au chef ou à papa, pour plus de lois, plus de “sécurité”, à n’être que le porte-drapeau ou le cache-misère du capitalisme, de tel ou tel gouvernement nationaliste, ces histoires des féminismes présents rappellent et font résonner ensemble nos vies féministes. Ce livre fonctionne comme un abécédaire, un manuel, une boîte à outils, un dictionnaire amoureux, dans lequel échanger des idées, affûter des armes, écouter des voix, partager des expériences et des pratiques, vibrer pour des luttes présentes. Il s’adresse à tous·tes : il contient à la fois des ressources et foisonne de références utiles, de notions, mais il est fabriqué par des plumes et des voix, des points de vue situés sur des retours d’expériences collectives, des itinéraires politiques et intimes, des réflexions et des rétrospections sur des parcours, des engagements, des révoltes et des espoirs. En pluralisant les styles, en se situant à la fois du côté de la théorie et de la pratique, de la création, des écritures au “nous” et au “je”, il témoigne de la force d’une approche féministe de l’histoire intellectuelle et politique. Il est dédié à toutes les résistantes anonymes au quotidien des violences les plus crasses, à celles qui embrasent les tribunaux, cassent des genoux et brisent les vitrines, à celles qui inventent mille tactiques imperceptibles pour survivre et se mettre à l’abri, à la mémoire de celles dont les noms recouvrent les murs de nos villes la nuit, à la puissance des collectifs qui se font, à ceux qui se sont défaits, qui se sont (re)constitués ailleurs ou autrement, à ce qui nous lie.
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The current study explored sexual minority women’s gender aesthetic and style by using van Anders’ (2015) sexual configurations theory (SCT), which allows for nuance in the measurement of gender/sex research. Previous research on sexual minority women has suggested a markedly masculine “Lesbian Aesthetic” (Huxley et al., 2014) and has connected aesthetic expression to internalized homophobia and levels of outness such that sexual minority women categorized as more feminine report higher rates of internalized homophobia and identity concealment. However, the bulk of past research used dichotomous measures of assessing gender and predated an ostensible shift in LGBTQ+ identities. To update this body of research, the current study explored gender aesthetics by asking sexual minority women to map their gender expression using SCT diagrams and complete measures of outness and internalized homophobia. We found no significant group differences in internalized homophobia or outness for femme, butch, and androgynous participants. Content analyses of gender diagrams suggest that the gender aesthetics of sexual minority women are neither monolithic nor masculine but may be beginning to lean towards the feminine and most certainly encompass a complex and diverse range of expressions
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A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thought by Black Lesbian writers, in the tradition of The New Press’s perennial seller Words of Fire “Briona Simone Jones’s anthology Mouths of Rain is an audacious, unapologetic, transgressive collection of Black ‘queer’ writing across genre, time, identity, age, and political leanings. This sister/companion to Words of Fire, published thirty years ago, makes visible—again—our passionate and unwavering commitments to the eradication of all oppressions. It bears witness to the necessity and power of the field of Black Lesbian Studies and is a love offering to us all.” —Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies at Spelman College and editor of Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought Winner, Publishing Triangle’s Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Winner, Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Anthology African American lesbian writers and theorists have made extraordinary contributions to feminist theory, activism, and writing. Mouths of Rain, the companion anthology to Beverly Guy-Sheftall’s classic Words of Fire, traces the long history of intellectual thought produced by Black Lesbian writers, spanning the nineteenth century through the twenty-first century. Using “Black Lesbian” as a capacious signifier, Mouths of Rain includes writing by Black women who have shared intimate and loving relationships with other women, as well as Black women who see bonding as mutual, Black women who have self-identified as lesbian, Black women who have written about Black Lesbians, and Black women who theorize about and see the word lesbian as a political descriptor that disrupts and critiques capitalism, heterosexism, and heteropatriarchy. Taking its title from a poem by Audre Lorde, Mouths of Rain addresses pervasive issues such as misogynoir and anti-blackness while also attending to love, romance, “coming out,” and the erotic
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Rita Mae Brown’s Rubyfruit Jungle (1973) is a foundational work of lesbian literature and has been characterized as a queer text. This essay begins with resistance to reading the novel as a wholly celebratory queer text because of how it positions a form of essentialized lesbianism against queer sexualities that are coded as deviant and abnormal. Nonetheless, Rubyfruit Jungle brims with queer narratives, queer scenes, and queer characters. In the essay’s second half, I draw on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s model of reparative reading to engage with potential queer readings the novel affords. I show how readers can recuperate the queer sexualities the novel documents in ways that the novel – with its specific historical and political positionality – did not or could not account for.