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:...
Category: Documentaries
Documentaries about lesbianism, queerness and feminism
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...
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...
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 aristocrats who lived in France during the decay of Paris. She has been greatly influenced by the...
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 has engendered a series of underground movements which slowly sidetracked feminism from its historic goal, in order to melt the...
Lesbian nightclub, elegance and identity in Paris of the 1930s
The modern construction of a lesbian identity has generated many philosophical variances between renowned intellectual women who marked the last century, from the 1920s to the Second World War. If most of them saw...
Queer Tango Club and elegance in Russia
The Queer Tango movement can be best described as an attempt to soften the heteronormative roles assigned to performers, while remaining respectful of all the traditional codes that make this partner dance so elegant. In other words, the duos keep their complementary...
Lesbian music anthology, an historical list of lesbian singers and sapphic albums
The positive development and vitality of lesbianism in the music industry these days must not make us forget about the hard times poets have endured in the past. Since the second wave of feminism in the 70s, conflicts...
The Ladies Almanack, an experimental film by Daviel Shy
The Ladies Almanack is an utopic project in production, written & directed by Daviel Shy. It’s story is based on the eponym novel of Djuna Barnes. The film is a kaleidoscopic tribute to women’s...
