Tullius est [et Tullius non est Cicero]: "Desiring Young Les(bi)an Visionaries in the Archive"

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Thursday, April 28, 2016

"Desiring Young Les(bi)an Visionaries in the Archive"

Feminists get turned on in archive and write a paper about it:

Abstract
This paper presents a critically reflexive account of the experiences of a group of researchers at the Canadian Women's Movement Archives. Drawing on the work of Sara Ahmed, Claire Colebrook, and Victoria Hesford, it argues that the researchers shared intensely embodied and emotional encounters with the archival record of lesbians’ struggles to create and define community. These encounters encouraged the researchers to explore the potential of their own sexual subjectivities. Their deepened understanding of the complex lesbian and feminist past provided them with the desire to reconsider the collective promise of ‘lesbian’ and ‘bisexual’ for their own future community.

Read the whole thing for $41.

1 comment:

Sam VegaApril 28, 2016 at 11:23 AM
"Intensely embodied and emotional encounters", featuring lesbians. That sounds great, but apparently the internet is awash with porn that doesn't cost $41 dollars. They need a new marketing approach.
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