@shadowkat678 reblogged your post and added:
@star-anise ,do you happen to have any sources on this? It sounds really interesting but I really like historical posts like this with sources and I canāt find anything. I may be using the wrong wording with searches.
Iāve got a few posts I can point you to as 101-level primers! A lot of my stuff is trying to be wayfinding, helping people conceptualize how different movements arose and related to each other, with the hope that then people will google the relevant movements and people, likeĀ āpolitical lesbianismā orĀ āAudre Lordeā, look at the references on Wikipedia, and see what works they have access to through their local library or online and read for themselves.
Bi women in early lesbian spaces and how they came to be excluded (lesbian bars, lesbian separatism, and queer theory)
The origins of a lot of modern Tumblr-specific lesbian memes in 1960s political lesbianism, and how thatās a very different thing from lesbianism as a sexual orientation
How radical feminism went from a vibrant and important community of feminist inquiry and activism to a ghost town largely populated by white transphobes, and what some of the communities that inherited radical feminismās work are, with queer theory, the LGBT+ movement, Black feminism, and intersectional feminism as instructive examples.