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A witch is, actually, a successful (in the sense of surviving) deviant. You have a cultural, ideological, social, what-not pattern which is, for that society in question, normal (and, importantly, this is understood as a synonym for natural). Most people survive because they conform to these patterns, because they behave normally. […] But then suddenly you get a deviant which survives, and since it does not draw its support from the normal pattern, […] that deviant is understood as drawing its support from “unknown,” “supernatural” sources. […] If we cannot survive without our order, how can she [the witch] survive in solitude? Hers must be indeed a very powerful order to exist so independently, without all the inter cooperation and individual compromise which we have to go through to survive. And if it is so powerful, then it could destroy us. We must try to destroy it first.

Maya Deren, “From the Notebook of Maya Deren”, c.October 1947, vol. 14: pages 21–45. (via maddiviner)

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“And you know, the fact is, nobody knew that they were prosthetic legs. They were the star of the show - these wooden boots peeking out from under this raffia dress - but in fact, they were actually legs made for me.”

Aimee Mullins, on her look in the Alexander McQueen S/S 1999 show.

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Summer Day Quilt - 52” x 75”

I crave these colors in the Summertime. The juicy peaches and sunny yellows are at the same time theraputic and energizing. I started this modern take on the Courthouse Steps motif with a precious square of my all time favorite Leah Goren print, and from there it grew outwards. Along the way it became a study in perspective. As I added strips, I imagined the cheer it could bring to a home on a cloudy day. I give you now my snap shot of Summer, and hope your Summer is going well too (if you live in the Northern Hemisphere). Here.

- Gina Rockenwagner

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“I always mistrust everything which I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.”

– Michelangelo Antonioni

Stills from Blow-Up (1966, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni) Cinematography by Carlo Di Palma

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Grace Jones and Debbie Harry

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Working Girl || 1988

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What is it with lesbians and home? Gone home fun home whats next? My home is now a lesbian im afraid if i stay near a home too long i too will become a lesbian but i think its too late

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1. Gwen Shockey, Lavender Scissors and Red Houses (2016). — Lesbian Art and Artists

2. Catherine Opie, Self-Portrait/Cutting (1993). — Guggenheim

3. text reads “term: family of origin / term: chosen family”.

4. Catherine Opie, Eleanor & Megan, Minneapolis, Minnesota (1998) from her series Domestic (1995–1998). — Regen Projects

5. Catherine Opie, Sunday Morning Breakfast (2004) from her series In and Around Home (2004–2005). — Guggenheim

6. text from Barbara Smith, 1989, “A Press of Our Own Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press”, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 10 (3):11–13, doi: 10.2307/3346433. inset: photo by JEB (Joan E. Biren) of (L–R) Barbara Smith, Audre Lorde, Cherríe Moraga, and hattie gossett, four of the cofounders of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, representing their imprint at the second Women in Print Conference, Washington, DC (October 1–4, 1981). — Pinterest

7. from part five of Judy Grahn’s poem A Woman is Talking to Death (1974). you can view/download the scanned book here and access the poem in text format at Poets.org.

8. Tammy Rae Carland, Untitled (Lesbian Bed #4) from her series Lesbian Beds (2002). — artist’s site

9. Marsha Wetzel photographed by Lyndon French on behalf of the New York Times for Mark Miller’s November 18, 2016 article “No Rest at Rest Home: Fighting Bias Against Gays and Lesbians”.

10. (Noel) Phyllis Birkby, lesbian, architect, founder of the Women’s School of Planning and Architecture (1974–1981), in undated photo. — Sophia Smith Collection, Women’s History Archives at Smith College

overflowing:

Erin Blakemore. 2016. “The Turn-of-the-Century Lesbians Who Founded the Field of Home Ec”. JSTOR Daily, December 30.

Tammy Rae Carland’s series Keeping House (1999).

photos from Dusty Lombardo’s series Butch Interiors (2004).

etc.

what are your favorite statements/works by lesbians about “home”/domesticity? what does “home”/domesticity conjure up for you?