8
mediaLesbian Avenger Kelly Cogswell has finished her memoir
Thanks for following me this far on a journey which had its beginnings, at least one of them, almost a decade ago when I was on the way to give a speech fancifully entitled, Last Lesbian Standing: Language, Community-Building, and the Meaning of the Universe, 25 years after the Lesbian Avengers.
Killing time on the train, I pulled out a copy of Virginia Woolf’s famous essay about women’s literature, and began to read. She asked why women were poor. I wanted to know why lesbians are hated. And why it was so hard to use the word. That began my quest to find out if the answers were the same.
Spoiler alert: Yes, yes they were.
A Word of Our Own: A Memoir of Bodies, Language, and Home
It is only available as Substack Posts, and I loved it, probably because I’m about the same age, and thought the Lesbian Avengers was the future of the lesbian world. Kelly and her friends were so clever, so women-loving. I’ve always wondered where she came from, and what happened to her after Lesbian Avengers ended.
The Lesbian Avengers Chapter in Santa Cruz lasted 18 months, destroyed by including men (TIMs), who drove out the organizers, and took over.
Reading! Thanks for sharing.