![]() ![]() My life of desire that had lifted me above the constraints of 1950s America gave me a clue-find a way to let the wanting body speak its own history. The other reason was that I was trying to find a way to question the prevailing notions that in the near past, lesbians were mostly isolated victims or dupes of inescapable gender scripts. ![]() First, because I felt an iron curtain of ideological rejection falling over these communities of women, threatening to remove them from our historical records. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, I worked on documenting the primary lesbian erotic form of my time, butch-fem relationships. Photo by Robert Giard courtesy of Jonathan Silin. ![]() Joan Nestle with plaster wall plaque of women kissing. ![]()
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