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
anonymous message to @closet-keys
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
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).
what are your favorite statements/works by lesbians about “home”/domesticity? what does “home”/domesticity conjure up for you?