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Is lesbian separatism possible in 2023?
Q&A style posts on LesbianHerstory.com are an opportunity for readers to ask questions that serve as prompting topics for LH to write about. Questions can be advice-based, about our hot takes, asking whether we’ll cover a certain event or figure from history, or about lesbian news and media – you name it. Send your questions/prompts…
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Lesbian Media Lesbians Love
*Updated documentaries in April, 2026* We asked our supporters for their favourite lesbian movies, television shows, video games, apps, podcasts, YouTubers, books, artists, websites, musicians, magazines, and any other lesbian media they love. LH hasn’t engaged with all of this media, so we cannot guarantee the politics or enjoyment of each suggestion. Some of the…
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Lesbian Visibility Week 2023: Female Homosexuality is Not Bigoted
For Lesbian Day of Visibility 2023, the team behind HER’s social media celebrated by calling lesbians bigots for only finding the female sex attractive. This should go without saying, for anyone who is not a raging homophobe: lesbianism is not a choice, let alone discrimination against the male sex. You would think this poor treatment…
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Boston Marriages and the Language of Lesbian Relationships
Maybe it was two women in your history textbook. Maybe it was your unmarried great aunt and her live-in ‘best friend’. We are all familiar with the story: two women are designated close friends by historians, family members and society, despite the pair’s decision to unite and entwine their lives like any marriage between a…
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Lesbian and Gay Nightlife in 1990s Northern England: An interview with Stuart Linden Rhodes
Stuart Linden Rhodes is a photographer and writer who captured gay and lesbian nightlife in 1990s Northern England. Stuart’s Instagram account @linden_archives features hundreds of posed and candid shots from a time and place in lesbian and gay history that, without it, would be unseen today. In fact, Stuart’s Instagram account was discovered by director…
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“Lesbians Have Always Existed”: an interview with artist Jenifer Prince
Jenifer Prince is a visual artist and illustrator from Brazil. She combines mid-century comic aesthetics and pop culture references to depict lesbianism, “their love, life, sexuality and everything in between,” with a nostalgic nod to the past. We love to see Jenifer Prince’s art and so do big clients, including Netflix, Amazon Prime and Penguin…
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Sapphic Wales in the Nineteenth Century
Throughout history, lesbian and bisexual women have been marginalised, silenced, and had their stories erased. When you think of Welsh history, you probably do not think of lesbians. However, nineteenth-century Wales hosted an array of women-loving-women who persisted in living authentic to their sexual orientation, despite it significantly conflicting with society’s expectations. Join me in…
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Make Feminism Venomous Again: first Roe v. Wade, next lesbian and gay rights
On the 24th of June, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion just short of the 50th anniversary of Roe v Wade. As of April 7, 2022, of the 9 justices of the Supreme Court, 6 were appointed by a Republican president and 3 were appointed by a Democratic president. WE…
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Lesbian Tenth Muse: On Juana Inés de la Cruz and Sappho.
I love Lisi, but I do not pretend That Lisi corresponds my finesse, Well, if I judge her beauty possible, To her decorum and my apprehension I offend. – Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. You’ve heard of Sappho but have you heard of sor Juana Inés de la Cruz? Like many lesbians from history,…
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Interview: T.S. from Black Lesbian Herstory
To commemorate Black history month, Lesbian Herstory spoke to T.S. from Black Lesbian Herstory about the joys, challenges, and importance of holding space to research, archive and curate the lives of Black lesbians from history. LH: What do you most enjoy about researching and curating Black lesbian herstory (or lesbian herstory in general)? TS: For…