Akiva ꙮ’s Reviews > The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison > Status Update

The experiences of.... flip that story on its head, and suggest that ideas of self-acceptance and queer liberation were percolating among the most marginalized even before they manifested in well-heeled homophile organizing. ...the radical Black activist tradition of "freedom dreams"---communal coming to understandings of life as as it could be lived, outside of the oppressive forces of white supremacist patriarchy.