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The exhibit examines lesbian feminism and lesbian separatism in Chicago. Gerber Hart Library and Archive’s exhibit Lavender Women and Killer Dykes works to keep this important history alive in a more traditional way. “I think any kind of queer historic research is activism,” adds Andie.
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"I think of it as an activist tool, a, it's a tool to archive and to ensure that no one has to work as hard to find queer resources as our ancestors." And that eventually became this project where I build out these kind of fantasy sets for members of the queer community who are working in some way to make the community better.” “After that I put out an open call of, if you're in the queer community and you want to get in my tub, let's do it. But it was such a good, such a wonderful and fulfilling experience." I had my friends over… they were first getting into drag and we had a little photo shoot in the tub.
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“About two years ago, I moved into my home that has a clawfoot tub. While lesbian bars may have almost vanished, the new generation has found its way in reinventing spaces to include new communities that need their own space. Now you have much more powerful lesbian pop-up spaces or just queer pop-up spaces. Originally kind of being in homes and moving around that way. Andie explains, “Lesbian spaces have always kind of leaned towards pop-up events. Today, there has been a shift towards pop-up parties and events geared toward the queer community. The combination of lesbians being more assimilated into society, the availability of technology to connect people, and the shift toward intersectional identities, rather than identifying simply as gay or lesbian has created a community that does not rely on lesbian bars like in the past. So that's why I would argue that we need more queer bars and not more lesbian space.” But as we move forward and we find our intersectionalities in the corners of our community that need us most, that model doesn't work and we have to expand. And thus we have lesbian bars and we have gay bars. “When you start, you need to find your people and protect them and stay together. We need queer bars and queer spaces,” says Andie. Still, folks came from across the city and suburbs to visit lesbian bars because they. I would argue that we don't necessarily need lesbian bars. Similarly, the gay rights movements may have gained notoriety. the auditorium, protocol room, bar, and restaurant to the west. “There's also a shift towards queer as opposed to a lesbian bar. This public library in Usera, a southern suburb of Madrid, suggests a building plucked. Looking deeper, Andie argues that as people have been able to identify in ways that were not prevalent in the past, there has been a shift in what spaces are needed. Yes, technology has brought people closer than ever, but that’s only part of it. And there was a feeling that lesbians needed to set up a space where they were safe, where they could be open, because, before this time it was very dangerous to be a lesbian.” Mary Ann adds, “there was harassment of people who were different. Lesbians were harassed in bars across Chicago and so, following the spirit of the LGBTQ movement and the Lesbian Feminist movement, lesbian bars thrived. The underlying notion that if your interests are not properly represented, you can create new spaces that do serve those interests was key to increasing the number of lesbian bars in the 1970’s and 1980’s.įor lesbians, being open and visible in mainstream society was not an option. “Lesbian Feminism developed kind of as an alternative to those other movements.” Thus, another reactionary movement was born. Similarly, the gay rights movements may have gained notoriety, but lesbians felt that they were left out of the conversation too often. Yet, these new women’s organizations did not give equal voice to all women– lesbians found themselves left out of the subsequent women’s movements. So women began to set up their own organizations.” So they said, ‘Why are we doing this for someone else?’ Let’s do it for our own interests. “They were very capable and experienced in organizing.
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This lack of efficacy in other movements led to the creation of women’s own movements in an effort to advance interests that were largely ignored.
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