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#blacklesbianarchives @black_lesbian_swag Repost @h_e_r_s_t_o_r_y EMOTIONAL THICKNESS. Thinking about #emotionalthickness a phrase said by #JoanEBiren at her slideshow presentation at @aliceaustenhouse this summer. Feel it. 🕯 \"Archene Turner and Lynn Walker share a sweet moment in the backyard of their home in Atlanta, Georgia.\" Photo and text: Joan E. Biren from her book 'Making a Way: Lesbians Out Front' 1987. #lesbianculture #joanebiren #qpoc #blacklesbians #blacklove #1987

"A SOUTHERNER A LESBIAN AGAINST THE KKK," Minnie Bruce Pratt, Washington, D.C., 1982. Photo © Joan E. Biren (JEB). Post inspired by @queerappalachia. #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #MinnieBrucePratt #JoanEBiren #Mood (at Washington, District of Columbia)

NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: EYE TO EYE : PORTRAITS OF LESBIANS -PHOTOGRAPHS BY JEB (1979) • Remarkable and scarce photobook from 1979. Photographs by JEB (Joan E. Biren) with a foreword by Joan Nestle, and an introduction by Judith Schwarz. A beautiful collection of intimate photographs collected alongside quotes from some of the subjects, poetry and prose. The book is prefaced with a fantastic and valuable overview of the herstory of women, particularly lesbian women, as photographers. • Audre Lorde states: "As we need to share our words for power, so also do we need to share the contours of our faces, and the visual shapes of our loving and of our lives. The splendid vitality captured within Eye to Eye makes this possible." • Joan E. Biren or JEB (b. 1944), is an internationally recognized documentary artist. Her photographic and film work has chronicled the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people for more than 30 years. • One first edition copy via our website and shop. • #worldfoodbooks #joanebiren #1979 #eyetoeyeportraitsoflesbians (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)

NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: EYE TO EYE : PORTRAITS OF LESBIANS -PHOTOGRAPHS BY JEB (1979) • Remarkable and scarce photobook from 1979. Photographs by JEB (Joan E. Biren) with a foreword by Joan Nestle, and an introduction by Judith Schwarz. A beautiful collection of intimate photographs collected alongside quotes from some of the subjects, poetry and prose. The book is prefaced with a fantastic and valuable overview of the herstory of women, particularly lesbian women, as photographers. • Audre Lorde states: "As we need to share our words for power, so also do we need to share the contours of our faces, and the visual shapes of our loving and of our lives. The splendid vitality captured within Eye to Eye makes this possible." • Joan E. Biren or JEB (b. 1944), is an internationally recognized documentary artist. Her photographic and film work has chronicled the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people for more than 30 years. • One first edition copy via our website and shop. • #worldfoodbooks #joanebiren #1979 #eyetoeyeportraitsoflesbians (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)

NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: EYE TO EYE : PORTRAITS OF LESBIANS -PHOTOGRAPHS BY JEB (1979) • Remarkable and scarce photobook from 1979. Photographs by JEB (Joan E. Biren) with a foreword by Joan Nestle, and an introduction by Judith Schwarz. A beautiful collection of intimate photographs collected alongside quotes from some of the subjects, poetry and prose. The book is prefaced with a fantastic and valuable overview of the herstory of women, particularly lesbian women, as photographers. • Audre Lorde states: "As we need to share our words for power, so also do we need to share the contours of our faces, and the visual shapes of our loving and of our lives. The splendid vitality captured within Eye to Eye makes this possible." • Joan E. Biren or JEB (b. 1944), is an internationally recognized documentary artist. Her photographic and film work has chronicled the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people for more than 30 years. • One first edition copy via our website and shop. • #worldfoodbooks #joanebiren #1979 #eyetoeyeportraitsoflesbians (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)