![]() ![]() This cultural history draws from my archival research at the Lesbian Herstory archives, the June L. “A Woman’s Place” traces the relationship between lesbian feminist history and contemporary popular culture in the U.S., illuminating lesbian feminism’s influence on the queer and feminist political movements of today. Such depictions fix lesbian feminism’s political legacy and minimize its significance to contemporary social movements. As a result, lesbian feminism is frequently depicted as a social movement solely comprised of white, cisgender women, erasing the major political, theoretical, and cultural contributions that women of color and trans women made to these communities. ![]() ![]() However, there is little work that chronicles the political, racial, and gender diversity among lesbian feminists. Many queer theorists have critiqued lesbian feminists’ rigid policing of lesbian identity, noting that this often resulted in the exclusion of women of color, trans women, and sex radicals from lesbian communities. Feminist theorists have chronicled lesbian feminists’ role in developing a theoretical and political foundation for the academic fields of gender studies and queer theory. ![]()
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