Posts tagged gender and sexuality
Remember Who You Are
Remember Who You Are

“One of them had a shaved head and a silver stud in her nose, the other had cat’s-eye glasses and chipped red nail polish, and they were holding hands. I was so fucking happy—queer zines and records in my hands and a grrl-couple holding hands in public—that I smiled. The girls returned my smile, and my baby-queer heart went boom-boom-bam, a bass drum in my chest.”

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Creative Non-FictionJessie Lynn McMainsriot grrrl, queercore, the smiths, schoolkids records, punk, creative non-fiction, jessie lynn mcmains, punk music, team dresch, LGBT, queer women, gender and sexuality, personal bestComment
The Femme Chronos: The Life and Work of Mina Loy
The Femme Chronos: The Life and Work of Mina Loy

“Raised by a mother who believed imagination was sinful, Mina was constantly punished and derided for her creative spirit…. And yet, her poetry breathes with transformative vitality. She dares to imagine a world where women exist wholly as themselves, their value disconnected from the preferences of men.”

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Herstory, Liberation, Pop Culture, SexualityCassidy ScanlonMina Loy, herstory, feminist poets, feminism, feminist history, feminist herstory, badass women, ezra pound, gertrude stein, LGBTQIA artists, LGBTQIA, the dada group, 20th century artists, 20th century writers, 20th century, women empowerment, female empowerment, women, women's rights, women's art, women artists, female artists, writers, women writers, gender and sexualityComment