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The Knight’s Move, Tessa Boffin, 1990

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Angelic Rebels: Lesbians and Safer Sex, Tessa Boffin, 1989

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Labyris Auto Repair, The Lesbian Tide, 1974

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"Ain't I a Woman?," April 1971

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FaT GiRL #3, 1996

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Dykes & Gorgons, vol. 1 issue 1, 1973

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Dykes & Gorgons, vol. 1 issue 1, 1973

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Dykes & Gorgons, vol. 1 issue 1, 1973

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Dykes & Gorgons, vol. 1 issue 1, 1973

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"A feminist silkscreen poster collective founded in London in 1974 by three former art students, the See Red Women’s Workshop grew out of a shared desire to combat sexist images of women and to create positive and challenging alternatives. Women from different backgrounds came together to make posters and calendars that tackled issues of sexuality, identity and oppression. With humor and bold, colorful graphics, See Red expressed the personal experiences of women as well as their role in wider struggles for change." Red Women’s Workshop, 1975

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Poster, Fierce Pussy, 1991

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Salute to Women, Lily Tomlin, 1970s

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clip of Angela Bowen on Tom Bergeron, 1988

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Sinister Wisdom #7, 1978

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The Joy of Lesbian Sex: a Tender and Liberated Guide to the Pleasures and Problems of a Lesbian Lifestyle, 1977

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“In my own work I don’t use [the word ‘queer’] because I think it’s too broad a term. It could encompass everything from pedophilia to heterosexual sadomasochism to you know, any kind of fetish. It is not at all specific. And secondly, I don’t like its negative connotation because it still very much has that, especially in India. And even here [in America], I think it still hasn’t lost its connotation of being really strange and weird. Like my mother for instance, for her to say ‘queer’ and think of anything ‘queer’ as positive it would be extremely difficult whereas gay at least sounds positive in terms of what it means in the language. And I like what it means in the language and I like the history of lesbian, to connect it to Lesbos and so on. Whereas ‘queer’ has nothing positive about it that I can see and except what you put into it but it has nothing in terms of the history or the cultural connotation which you can’t entirely shed.”

—Ruth Vanita, an Indian lesbian academic and activist on why she doesn’t like the term ‘queer’

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