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...
Category: Documentaries
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...
Valtesse de la Bigne, ses ami.e.s, ses amours, son testament
Émilie-Louise Delabigne, known as countess Valtesse de La Bigne, was a French courtesan and demi-mondaine. This brief lecture is presented as follow : “How to approach the history of affects from a materialist archive?...
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...
Les rêves perdus de Marie Laurencin (French Podcast)
A French podcast aired in 1954. Marie Laurencin was a painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d’Or. She...
Roads to Delphi n°2, Eva Palmer Sikelianos
Evelina “Eva” Palmer-Sikelianos was an American woman notable for her study and promotion of Classical Greek culture, weaving, theater, choral dance and music. Palmer’s life and artistic endeavors intersected with numerous noteworthy artists throughout...
The Royal Road (2015) An intimate reflection on Butch identity
The Royal Road is a beautiful, haunting history lesson directed by Jenni Olson (LGBT film historian). This is a cinematic essay in defense of remembering. The Royal Road offers up a primer on Junipero...
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...
