How Should We Tell the Stories of “Bad” Lesbians from History in a Culture of Us vs. Them? Posted by By Lesbian Herstory February 9, 2022Posted in1800s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, Art, Books, Feminism, Film, History, Music, New, Politics, Race, Today, Visual art1 Comment How do we write on complex, even harmful, lesbians from history in the age of “us vs. them”? How do we present the facts in a way that doesn’t omit…
Patricia Highsmith: a Painful Lesson Posted by By Lesbian Herstory September 7, 2021Posted in1950s, 2010s, Art, Books, Family, History, Mental Health, New, Politics6 Comments Patricia Highsmith was the author of The Price of Salt (1952): the inspiration for the film Carol (2015). It was the first lesbian novel with a happy ending. However, while…