v excited to read about camp trans!! it is funny to imagine any kind of lesbian or queer event having some magical time before conflicts and divides - that's part of the whole deal
This is great, looking forward to the next installment. It’s weird because I’m a gen x/millennial line non-binary dyke and met the first person I ever thought “oh, they’re like me “ while waiting in the car line to enter Michigan in 2002. They were flyering for Camp Trans. They had just moved to my hometown, where I had run away from at 18, which I thought was crazy. Thanks Simon! So I ended up attending both places the three times I went. I know plenty of us did that. I felt I myself had a line straddling the tow places, a metaphor for my gender still.
Wow, love to hear this! Would love to hear your thoughts once I publish my post on Camp Trans - all the research in the world can't add up to the knowledge of actually having been there!
not just leslie but also Ricki Ann Wilchins, who becomes a bit of a controversial figure herself later, ESPECIALLY if you happen to be the late editor of Transisters newsletter... which is all available online free at digitaltransgenderarchives ofc
The texts I have bookmarked about 90s lesbian chic and the 2000s lesbian tv "boom" are Ann M. Ciasullo's article "Making Her (In)Visible: Cultural Representations of Lesbianism and the Lesbian Body in the 1990s" (about the former) and Rebecca Beirne's book Lesbians in Television and Text after the Millennium (about the latter).
I loved so many parts of this but especially: scamming the US military and the Fat Liberation group protesting the lack of XL+ shirt sizes.🥲💖GO OFF!!
Haha yes, soooo many rich details of MichFest history. We stan stealing from the military but condemn using it for TERFery!
v excited to read about camp trans!! it is funny to imagine any kind of lesbian or queer event having some magical time before conflicts and divides - that's part of the whole deal
haha totally. it's both totally obvious and easy to forget somehow!
This is great, looking forward to the next installment. It’s weird because I’m a gen x/millennial line non-binary dyke and met the first person I ever thought “oh, they’re like me “ while waiting in the car line to enter Michigan in 2002. They were flyering for Camp Trans. They had just moved to my hometown, where I had run away from at 18, which I thought was crazy. Thanks Simon! So I ended up attending both places the three times I went. I know plenty of us did that. I felt I myself had a line straddling the tow places, a metaphor for my gender still.
Wow, love to hear this! Would love to hear your thoughts once I publish my post on Camp Trans - all the research in the world can't add up to the knowledge of actually having been there!
ahh such a good read! i had no idea Leslie Feinberg led camp trans! excited to read more!
not just leslie but also Ricki Ann Wilchins, who becomes a bit of a controversial figure herself later, ESPECIALLY if you happen to be the late editor of Transisters newsletter... which is all available online free at digitaltransgenderarchives ofc
Thank you Sophia!!
The texts I have bookmarked about 90s lesbian chic and the 2000s lesbian tv "boom" are Ann M. Ciasullo's article "Making Her (In)Visible: Cultural Representations of Lesbianism and the Lesbian Body in the 1990s" (about the former) and Rebecca Beirne's book Lesbians in Television and Text after the Millennium (about the latter).
YESSSSS thank you Kira!!
Thank you for this incredible piece of lesbian (sapphic? queer?) historical research. It is fascinating and in many places, hilarious.
Thanks for the kind words! :)