A Lesbian Photo Album by Cathy Cade5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Unsatisfied with the racial diversity present in the imagery I found online, I began scanning books, screenshotting google books and even screenshotting documentaries. ![]() I scoured tumblr, discovered regional library archives online and visited websites like fuck yeah queer vintage, the new york public library digital archives, out history, and know homo. Honestly before tumblr it was difficult to find very much lesbian imagery at all online - it was always the same ten or twelve stock photos - let alone pictures of lesbians taken prior to 2000. I wanted to see an evolution of our community, how we’d grown and changed over the years - and not just in a montage of famous out actresses and models, but pictures of actual people, pictures of women who were active in the community - regular human beings, writers and social activists. ![]() I was looking for words but eventually, also, for pictures. My girlfriend was not a big fan of the stacks of books at the foot of the bed. I really threw myself into Herstory Month, in June, eating every accessible herstory archive on the internet and spending hours in the library, accumulating massive stacks of borrowed books which I stored at the foot of my bed. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian CinemaĬlick here for more posts from “the herstory issue” // “the way we were”.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now. ![]()
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