blake’s Reviews > Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer > Status Update
blake
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Put more simply, it is entirely possible for the abnegated self of Bersani's suicidal bottom to pick up, dust off, and return to the everyday as a coherent masculine self. The lesbian, and especially butches and femmes, by contrast, must negotiate the multiple selves that are differently interpolated in social contexts.
— Apr 24, 2025 02:42PM
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blake
is 61% done
“Political lesbianism is not sexuality in the identitarian or even practice-based sense. This does not mean, however, that it is simply an affiliative choice. Neither does it mean that political lesbians were not fucking or that fucking was not a part of their politics. But fucking may not mean sex; they were fucking off and fucking shit up.”
— Apr 23, 2025 02:15PM
blake
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“Put simply, if the state is naming the risk, then it is managed. State recognition gives the promise of state protection. With state protection, in a liberal framework, there is no longer a need for community protection.”
— Mar 29, 2023 09:53PM
blake
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“What is disappearing, then, is not only lesbian space but a sustained critique of and engagement with the histories of anticapitalism and antipatriarchy that informed earlier political movements under the moniker of lesbian”
— Mar 25, 2023 10:09AM
blake
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“Over and over again, especially in the last fifty years, the concern and conundrum around lesbian identity and lesbian politics is marked by a state of disruption.”
— Mar 19, 2023 05:40PM
