The Straight Mind and Other Essays is a 1992 collection of essays by Monique Wittig. The collection was translated into French as La pensée straight in...
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Monique Wittig (category French emigrants to the United States)
"heterosexual contract." Her groundbreaking work is titled The Straight Mind and Other Essays. She published her first novel, L'Opoponax, in 1964. Her second...
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Radical lesbianism (category Feminism and sexual orientation)
(1992). The Straight Mind and Other Essays. Beacon Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-0807079171. OCLC 748998545. Poirot, Kristan (2009). "Domesticating the Liberated...
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4B movement (category Feminist movements and ideologies)
in the 4B movement as a form of protest against Trump's election, his alleged sexual assaults, and his role in the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Other American...
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is the concept that lesbian couples in committed relationships have less sex than any other type of couple the longer the relationship lasts, and generally...
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Monique Wittig: The Straight Mind and other Essays, 1992 Raewyn Connell: Masculinities. 1995 Richard Sennett: The corrosion of character. The Personal Consequences...
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""Empty Bed Blues" (the not-so-straight-ahead version)". Box Lunch (Audio CD). Rising Star Records. 6:10 minutes in. I had a girl, and I figured after seven...
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Dyke (slang) (section Origins and historical usage)
Virginian variant of deck and decked out. In the 1950s, the word dyke was used as a derogatory term for lesbians by straight people, but was also used...
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Butch (lesbian slang) (category Butch and femme)
of women in society and distinguish their masculine attributes and characteristics from feminine women. Starting in the 1940s and 1950s, butch became...
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Dykes to Watch Out For (category Lesbian-related mass media in the United States)
director and New Ager-turned-atheist, who identified herself as a bisexual lesbian (And later just bisexual) and became involved with a straight Jewish...
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collections of formerly unpublished essays and speeches. Her two final books came out in the first years of the 21st century, the latter being a memoir. Dworkin...
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that the flag excludes butch lesbians, while others oppose its use due to remarks made by McCray deemed racist, biphobic, and transphobic. The "pink"...
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"The Category of Sex". The Straight Mind: And Other Essays. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0807079171. Cravens, Hamilton (2010). "What's New in Science and Race...
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Lipstick lesbian (category Butch and femme)
dresses or skirts, and having other characteristics associated with feminine women. In popular usage, the term is also used to characterize the feminine gender...
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Feminist separatism (category Feminist movements and ideologies)
Machine, by Rosemary Ruether Turcotte, Louise. (foreword) The Straight Mind and Other Essays, Monique Wittig, Beacon Press, 1992, ISBN 0-8070-7917-0, p ix...
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Stone butch (category Butch and femme)
traditional "masculinity" and who does not allow their genitals to be touched during sexual activity, as opposed to a stone femme. The term stone butch was...
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Lavender Menace (category Lesbian feminist organizations in the United States)
movement, and several of the participants in the "zap" were invited to run workshops the next day on lesbian rights and homophobia. Straight and gay women...
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Marilyn Frye (section Education and career)
essays which has become a "classic" of feminist philosophy. In her chapter entitled "Oppression" in the book Feminist Frontiers, Frye discusses the idea...
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (category LGBTQ literature in the United States)
power and strength to the women in her life, and much of the book is devoted to detailed portraits of other women. Audre Lorde grows up in Harlem in the 1930s...
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Audre Lorde (category Deaths from cancer in the United States Virgin Islands)
Outsider: Essays and Speeches". Also published within "Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches". "Audre Lorde Biography". eNotes.com. Archived from the original...
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Political lesbianism (category Feminism and history)
political lesbianism entails the political identification of women with other women; it encompasses a role beyond sexuality and supports eschewing forming...
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AfterEllen (redirect from AfterEllen.com and TheBacklot.com)
articles and essays of political nature became more frequent. In December 2016, Joelle added her personal signature and endorsement statement to the "L is...
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feminine and do not fit into the "butch" stereotype can pass as straight. She believes the link between appearance and gender performance and one's sexuality...
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Lesbian (section Sexuality and identity)
they are unified by the heterosexist discrimination and potential rejection they face from their families, friends, and others as a result of homophobia...
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Adrienne Rich (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
of the Possible: Essays and Conversations. W.W. Norton. 2001. ISBN 978-0-393-05045-5. 2007: Poetry and Commitment: An Essay 2009: A Human Eye: Essays on...
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Kate Clinton (category HuffPost writers and columnists)
the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the ACLU, and Out & Equal, among others.[citation needed] "GLBTQ >> arts >> Clinton, Kate". Archived from the...
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Stormé DeLarverie (category Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus people)
education, and she was largely raised by her grandfather. As a biracial child, DeLarverie faced bullying and harassment from the other children. "The white...
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Womyn-born womyn (category Feminism and transgender topics)
and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory". In Case, Sue-Ellen (ed.). Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and...
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Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (category CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes))
will be "felt and understood by individuals with minds of their own," and that Gadsby's story will finally be heard. Gadsby discusses the mental health...
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specialist in the history of women, history of art, and history of lesbians. She has also published books in the history of the French resistance and occupation...
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