![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Oral histories, photographs, fragment of insight-fitting into a narrative perhaps I had already in my head. I have always done my history work in that strange landscape where flickers of memory coalesce into historical landscapes. Tropes of Erotic Memory: “I Wanted to Live Long Enough to Kiss a Woman” Photo by Robert Giard courtesy of Jonathan Silin. Joan Nestle with plaster wall plaque of women kissing. ![]()
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