Dyke Strippers

Dyke Strippers
Author: Rosalind Warren
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1995
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"From Alison Bechdel to Zora, humor anthologist Roz Warren has compiled her best book ever, an action-packed omnibus of the wild imaginations of lesbian cartoonists. Here are your favorite comic characters - Mo and the gang from Dykes to Watch Out For, Hothead and Chicken from Hothead Paisan, Bitchy Bitch, Liliane, and a host of other pen-and-ink lesbian icons - dissing homophobes and politicos, and serving up hilarious slices of lesbian life."--Back cover.

So You Want to Be a Lesbian?

So You Want to Be a Lesbian?
Author: Liz Tracey
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1996-07-15
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780312144234

A raucous, good-natured look at lesbianism and just what it takes to join in the fun, So You Want to Be a Lesbian takes on all the important issues facing lesbians today, opening with an LAT (Lesbian Aptitude Test), then exploring such hot-button topics as what records to play at a "coming out" party and the three most annoying responses parents can have when their daughter comes out to them.

Now You See Her

Now You See Her
Author: Anne Crémieux
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2023-03-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1476685819

Over the past thirty years, queer women have been coming out of the media closet to enter the mainstream consciousness. This book explores the rise of lesbian visibility since the 1990s with in-depth historical analyses of representation in sports, music, photography, comics, television and cinema. Each chapter is complemented by an interview: soccer player and coach Saskia Webber, singer-songwriter Gretchen Phillips, photographer Lola Flash, cartoonist Alison Bechdel and filmmakers Jamie Babbit and Anna Margarita Albelo discuss the societal transformations that shaped their careers. From the "riot grrrl" movement of the early 1990s punk scene to screen representations of queer culture (The L Word, Orange Is the New Black), this book discusses how lesbian presence successfully infiltrated several patriarchal strongholds, and was transformed in return.

The Advocate

The Advocate
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1995-06-27
Genre:
ISBN:

The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.

LGBTQ America Today [3 volumes]

LGBTQ America Today [3 volumes]
Author: John Charles Hawley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 1430
Release: 2008-11-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 031308730X

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture is a vibrant and rapidly evolving segment of the American mosaic. This book gives students and general readers a current guide to the people and issues at the forefront of contemporary LGBTQ America. Included are more than 600 alphabetically arranged entries on literature and the arts, associations and organizations, individuals, law and public policy concerns, health and relationships, sexual issues, and numerous other topics. Entries are written by distinguished authorities and cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. Students in social studies, history, and literature classes will welcome this book's illumination of American cultural diversity. LGBTQ Americans have endured many struggles, and during the last decade in particular they have made tremendous contributions to our multicultural society. Drawing on the expertise of numerous expert contributors, this book gives students and general readers a current overview of contemporary LGBTQ American culture. Sweeping in scope, the encyclopedia looks at literature and the arts, associations and organizations, individuals, law and public policy concerns, health and relationships, sexual practices, and various other areas. Entries cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. While extensive biographical entries give readers a sense of the lives of prominent lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans, the many topical entries provide full coverage of the challenges and contributions for which these people are known. The encyclopedia supports the social studies curriculum by helping students learn about cultural diversity, and it supports the literature curriculum by helping students learn about LGBTQ writers and their works.

Good White Queers?

Good White Queers?
Author: Kai Linke
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2021-03-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3839449170

How do white queer people portray our own whiteness? Can we, in the stories we tell about ourselves, face the uncomfortable fact that, while queer, we might still be racist? If we cannot, what does that say about us as potential allies in intersectional struggles? A careful analysis of Dykes To Watch Out For and Stuck Rubber Baby by queer comic icons Alison Bechdel and Howard Cruse traces the intersections of queerness and racism in the neglected medium of queer comics, while a close reading of Jaime Cortez's striking graphic novel Sexile/Sexilio offers glimpses of the complexities and difficult truths that lie beyond the limits of the white queer imaginary.

In Visible Archives

In Visible Archives
Author: Margaret Galvan
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2023-09-26
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1452969833

Analyzing how 1980s visual culture provided a vital space for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities In 1982, the protests of antiporn feminists sparked the censorship of the Diary of a Conference on Sexuality, a radical and sexually evocative image-text volume whose silencing became a symbol for the irresolvable feminist sex wars. In Visible Archives documents the community networks that produced this resonant artifact and others, analyzing how visual culture provided a vital space for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities. Margaret Galvan explores a number of feminist and cultural touchstones—the feminist sex wars, the HIV/AIDS crisis, the women in print movement, and countercultural grassroots periodical networks—and examines how visual culture interacts with these pivotal moments. She goes deep into the records to bring together a decade’s worth of research in grassroots and university archives that include comics, collages, photographs, drawings, and other image-text media produced by women, including Hannah Alderfer, Beth Jaker, Marybeth Nelson, Roberta Gregory, Lee Marrs, Alison Bechdel, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Nan Goldin. The art highlighted in In Visible Archives demonstrates how women represented their bodies and sexualities on their own terms and created visibility for new, diverse identities, thus serving as blueprints for future activism and advocacy—work that is urgent now more than ever as LGBTQ+ and women’s rights face challenges and restrictions across the nation.

A Fragile Union

A Fragile Union
Author: Joan Nestle
Publisher: Cleis Press Start
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2018-01-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1573448702

A Fragile Union is Joan Nestle’s collection of intimate essays and narratives about lesbian sexuality, butch-femme relationships, sex writing, the importance of preserving lesbian and gay history, the love between lesbians and gay men, and the "often-shaky camaraderie among lesbians that as community continues to flex its diversity." Longtime readers of Nestle's writings are familiar with her themes of unity and difference. In A Fragile Union, Nestle delves still deeper. Living with cancer, Nestle explores other "fragile unions": the fragility of her sexual desire in the face of her illness, the fragility of memory in the face of loss, and always in the face of fear, her belief in the possibility of hope, her love for her people—women, lesbians and gays, working class, and all who struggle against injustice.

Female Cartoonists in the United States

Female Cartoonists in the United States
Author: Hélène Tison
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2021-11-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000479552

This book provides an introduction to women cartoonists in the US, reading their work from a feminist, literary and stylistic perspective, which shines a light on their innovative and unique narratives and graphic languages. From rabid feminists to blundering teenagers to dyke avengers and pregnant butches, from political satire to memoirs to troubling sexual tales, from caricature to the clear line, from realism to minimalism and abstraction – they have done it all. This book looks at the work of over thirty authors who have challenged the boys’ club of comics in the US and whose stories shed a revealing light on contemporary society, through countercultural ripostes to the patriarchy, raw or humorous confessions, deconstruction of femininity, stories of vulnerability that offer powerful counterpoints to the "super bodies" of mainstream comics, non-white and queer cartoonists "drawing back" and more. This is a key title for students and scholars in the fields of Comics Studies, Literature and Women and Gender Studies.

Not Your Mother's Meatloaf

Not Your Mother's Meatloaf
Author: Saiya Miller
Publisher: Catapult
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2013-07-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1593765177

As teenagers today navigate increasingly fluid identities and choices, there is a demand for an accessible, interactive tool to help share knowledge about sex and sexual health; one that demystifies the facts and speaks frankly about experiences whose lessons often fall into the grey areas. Since 2008, Miller and Bley have held an open call for young people to create comics that address a variety of topics involved with sex education. We have since produced several issues of a sex-ed comic called Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf. The work is chosen from a vastly varied group of submissions and attempts to challenge hetero and gender normative practices in sex education. The comics address topics like body image, safer sex, consent, and relationships, from positions that have historically been left out of sex education. These graphically illustrated personal narratives address different themes, such as “Firsts,” “Bodies,” “Health,” “Age,” and “Endings.” The book will bring together the best of the material from the Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf comics, along with new graphic stories and writing by the editors providing personal and sociological background.