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Everyone should now read the Lesbian Canon.

Jill, you had no to make me laugh one essay and then cry two essays later.

The more I read this book, the more heart sinks for the baby gays in the 1990s-2000s.

Also rage at how the media sexualized queer women and the male gaze but I’ll leave that for the review.

A few pages in and this is one of the best descriptions of Anne Lister I’ve seen in a while:

“Anne Lister, a gender- bending property owner, who was collecting rent checks and the moans of women in 19th century Halifax.”

Superb!

20 pages in and I already love Fung Cheung.

One chapter in and I’m already getting recommendations for my TBR list.

The amount of “standard” 18th Century police replies Farge has recorded are truly staggering.

Goodbye sweet full sentences; I am now reduced to bullet points.

This book is fascinating but note taking is brutal.

Incredibly informative but taking some time as I'm making notes