Lesbian imagery from the 1900s
This playlist is composed of some self-talking lesbian couples pictures from the last century. After the Victorian era, some couples of women continued to express their love and affection for each other in studio...
Category: Documentaries
Documentaries about lesbianism, queerness and feminism
Djuna Barnes – Nuits magnétiques (French podcast)
A french documentary by Françoise Werner, Pierre Mine and Paméla Doussaud (aired for the first time on the radio “France Culture” in November 1983); with Michèle Causse and Berthe Cleyrergue as guest. Djuna Barnes,...
A portrait of Sappho, among others n°2 (Lesbian Historic Motif Project)
The Lesbian Talk Show is a blog that shares daily podcasts done for women by women., and the themes are as varied as the women who do them. The site is presented as follow:...
Keep an eye on Chavela
Chavela is a documentary film created by Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi. Through its lyrical structure, Chavela will take viewers on an evocative, thought-provoking journey inside the iconoclastic life of game-changing artist Chavela Vargas. Centered around a never before-seen...
Women in Soul, after IWD
Yesterday, it was the International Women’s Day (IWD). It provides an opportunity to recall the cross-border impact of Clara Zetkin’s initiative on women’s rights, and it also revives the traditional substantive divergences related to gender equality, intersectionality and...
In the Hollow, a documentary film by Claudia Brenner & Austin Bunn
In the Hollow is a documentary film written by Claudia Brenner and Austin Bunn. Its screenplay is based on a true story, more specifically on the testimony of Claudia Brenner in honor & memory of Rebecca...
A portrait of Sappho, among others (In Our Time) Radio podcast
Sappho was very famous and highly appreciated in antiquity: more than a hundred ancient authors cited her namer or spoke about her work in their writings. In a renowned epigram long attributed to Plato, the...
Awakening the Muse and happy New Year in advance
With all the things I have to prepare and the arrival of New Year’s celebrations, I’ll probably share much less clips here until early January. Therefore, I think it’s a good idea to offer...
Classical view n°1: The influential woman Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barney was a woman of letters born in 1876, in Dayton, Ohio. She still an iconic figure among the American upper class who lived in France during the decay of Paris. She has been greatly influenced by...
Alternative view n°1: Grace Neutral, Downtowngirlsbball and H&M
Today we will leave the mainstream scene for a little while and follow an alternative path to female beauty. The evolving mores of western societies have engendered a series of underground movements which slowly...
