A Legacy of Lesbian Love Letters

[Boyish²] Butch×Butch Yuri Anthology

10 of Japan’s top yuri manga artists have gathered to create the ultimate butch x butch yuri manga anthology!

Akizora Sawayaka |  Hanakage Alt |  Nekobungi Sumire |  Jackie |  Edakichi  |  Nerikomi Toukichirou |  Chiruda Shimako |  noe |  Mirin |  Mint |  Sumire

Organised by Mutsumi Natsuo

Available in both Japanese and English as physical print and PDF formats

Sara Duell: LES BIEN – Alors Tout Va Bien, 2019

Back to School with the Lesbian Avengers, 1992

“On September 9, 1992, sixty New York City dykes made history when they ventured out to Middle Village, Queens on the first day of school. They didn't chain themselves to anything, risk tear gas, or bludgeons. They did something much scarier. They stood outside an elementary school openly as dykes, and gave balloons to school kids, reading, "Ask about Lesbian Lives."

In support of a Rainbow Curriculum eventually doomed by the divide and conquer tactics of the racist & homophobic extreme right, that simple action requesting, "Ask about Lesbian Lives," ranks among one of the most radical LGBT efforts ever to fight the erasure of LGBT people, confront bullying, and take on homophobic taboos.”

Sally

Dir. Deborah Craig

Jeanette Winterson - Art Objects

Does Your Daughter Know It’s Okay To Be Angry? - Soraya Chemaly

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

Zami, Sister Outsider, Undersong - Audre Lorde

Garments Against Women - Anne Boyer

Laziness Does Not Exist - Devon Price

Learn Socialism Resources

Do Economists Actually Know What Wealth Is? - Nathan J. Robinson

Love Dialogue: CÉLINE SCIAMMA on Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Carlos Augilar

Teaching To Transgress - Bell Hooks

Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson

Sinister Wisdom Archives

Why Pop Culture Links Women and Killer Plants - Amandas Ong

How To Suppress Women’s Writing - Joanna Russ

Women’s Voices Now

The Life of Tove Jansson

Unbearable Weight; Feminism, Western Culture and the Body - Susan Bordo

‘A Simple Favour’ and That Whole Lesbian Psycho Thing - Ciara Wardlow

OUTWEEK Archives

AirPods Are a Tragedy - Caroline Haskins

Devotions - Mary Oliver

Go Tell It On The Mountain - James Baldwin

Nevertheless, She Feasted: Why Girls Get Hungry in Horror Movies - Francesca Fau

Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson

Sula - Toni Morrison

Not Vanishing - Chrystos

The Fever - Wallace Shawn

Portrait of a Lady on Fire director Céline Sciamma: ‘Ninety per cent of what we look at is the male gaze’ - Alexandra Pollard

Minimalism Is Just Another Boring Product Wealthy People Can Buy - Chelsea Fagan

AIDS, Art and Activism: Remembering Gran Fury - John d’Addario

In the Day of the Postman - Rebecca Solnit

Blood and Guts in Highschool - Kathy Acker

Mark My Words: The Subversive History of Women Using Thread as Ink - Rosalind Jana

Exploring Frida Kahlo’s Relationship With Her Body - Rebecca Fulleylove

Ravens have paranoid, abstract thoughts about other minds - Emily Reynolds

The Lady in the Looking Glass - Virginia Woolf

Angela Carter talks beauties and beasts with Terry Jones

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride

Why Female Cannibals Frighten and Fascinate - Kate Robertson

Lesbian Herstory Archives

Bartleby

Guggenheim Books

We Are Lisa Simpson: 30 Years with the Smartest and Saddest Kid in Grade Two - Sara David

On Beauty - Zadie Smith

Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado

Ask No Man Pardon: The Philosophical Significance of Being Lesbian - Elsa Gidlow

Taking Care - Callista Buchen

Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977) - Mariposa Films

Why you should give money directly and unconditionally to homeless people - Matt Broomfield

Yo Soy Así (2010) - Jodi Savitz

Liuzhou “Luosifen”: Slurpy, Spicy, and Absolutely Satisfying | Liziqi Channel

Root intelligence: Plants can think, feel and learn - Anil Ananthaswamy

East Bloc Love (2011) - Logan Mucha

Why Do Rich Kids Do Better Than Poor Kids in School? It’s Not the “Word Gap.”  - Molly McManus

They Shut Me Up In Prose - Emily Dickinson

The Importance of Friends with Similar Disabilities -  Elizabeth Mazur, Ph.D.

The Lesbian Archives at the Glasgow Women’s Library

A Poetry Handbook - Mary Oliver

Teaching Community. A pedagogy of Hope - Bell Hooks

Working Class History

Why don’t doctors trust women? Because they don’t know much about us - Gabrielle Jackson

In Our Brutal Modern World, Science Shows Our Brains Need Craft More Than Ever - Susan Luckman

Why were the lives of ordinary 16th and 17th century women largely undocumented? | Suzannah Lipscomb

Caliban And The Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation  - Silvia Federici

Mother’s Touch (엄마의 손길) -  Jane Yeon and Audris Park

Gene Wilder Was Right: Gilda Radner Didn’t Have To Die, And We Need To Talk About Why She Did - Abby Norman

Why 1984 Was a Vital Year for British Gay Culture: An interview with Paul Flynn - Hanna Hanra

R&B Legend Jackie Shane On Growing Up Trans in the South - Zackery Drucker

The Journey - Mary Oliver

The Fictional Spinster Classification Index - Daniel Mallory Ortberg

What kind of country have we become? Try asking a disabled person - Frances Ryan

Nobody talks about it, but too many rich kids are at university who shouldn’t be there - Julia Shervington

Barbara Hammer - The 90’s (experimental shorts)

Remembering Stormé - The Lesbian Woman Of Color Who Incited The Stonewall Revolution

Ozamu Tezuka Documentary

Sheroes: The Lesbian Stonewall

38 Lesbian Magazines That Burned Brightly, Died Hard, Left A Mark

‘It has made me want to live’: public support for lesbian novelist Radclyffe Hall over banned book revealed

This is what Britain’s Gay Liberation Front movement looked like in the 1970s

Pawn shop bars and poverty chic: how working-class life was colonised - Dale Lately

Prolife IS the extremist viewpoint. - Taryn De Vere

There Was No Them There (An Autobiography of Stella F Duffy)

1984. The trials of Gay’s the Word. - Colin Clews

Cambridge’s appropriation of the working class makes for bitter social division

Why we fell for clean eating - Bee Wilson

Glass Labyrinth - Shuji Terayama (1979)

“Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It” Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna Delvey’s fabulous new life. The city was full of marks. - Jessica Pressier

Top 10 books about women and the sea - Charlotte Runchie

JK Rowling’s Harry Potter? A thank you would be nice, says Worst Witch author - Anita Singh and Helen Brown

Heather Widdows: The Ugly Side of Beauty - Regan Penaluna

Why Women Are Shamed for Having Body Hair: On #everydaylookism and the normalization of the hairless body. - Heather Widdows and Jessica Sutherland

Dante’s Inferno: The Private Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poet and Painter - Ken Russell (1967) Part 1 | Part 2

Are Prisons Obsolete? - Dr. Angela Davis / also available as a free audiobook on YouTube

The Cancer Journals - Audre Lorde

Anti-Racism Resources for White People: Document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020.

Human Being/Insan (Ibrahim Shaddad, 1993)

Black Leaders Discussion feat. Angela Davis, Kwame Ture & Fannie Lou Hamer (1973)

CEREALS | Mayram Yusupova | 1982

Prairie House (1991) dir. Julie Dash

Julie Enszer: “We Couldn’t Get Them Printed,” So We Learned to Print Them Ourselves - Catherine Halley

A Burst of Light and Other Essays - Audre Lorde

Palestine Film Institute (one free film weekly)

Black British Women You Aren’t Taught in School (compiled by inamahair) Part 1 | Part 2

Intersections: Crafting a Voice for Black Culture - Alice Walker on Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Spiritual Food’

Part 1: Why we’ll succeed in saving the planet from climate change - Emma Marris

Part 2: Why we won’t avoid a climate catastrophe - Elizabeth Kolbert

The Rebel Dykes of London (2017)

“Before there were qu**r activists, before there were Riot Grrls, there were the Rebel Dykes of London. They were young, they were feminists, they were anarchists, they were punks. They met at Greenham Common women only nuclear protest camp. Then they lived together in squats in Peckham, Brixton and Hackney. They went to political demo’s every Saturday, they set up squatted creches and bookshops, feminist newspapers and magazines. They had bands like Poison Girls, Mouth Almighty, The Darlings and The Gymslips. They ran sex positive Lesbian S/M clubs and women’s nights at legendary The Bell. They were gender fluid, they were trans friendly. They worked in the sex industry, or in manual trades, or between the cracks. They lived their politics. They fought and won. They were the first generation of sex positive outlaw women, and nothing has been quite the same since.

This documentary film is being made because the history of the London Rebel Dykes of the 1980s is in danger of being forgotten. Rebel dykes created their own world, made their own rules, and refused to be ignored. So we can’t let history tidy them away.”