"Joan returns to share her story with contemporary women. She tells her experiences with the highest levels of church, state, and military, and unmasks the brutal misogyny behind male institutions. Award-winning, internationally-acclaimed lesbian drama" goodreads.com/en/book/show/1…
https://twitter.com/helenrogers19c/status/1312839373201772544
"Carolyn Gage is a lesbian feminist playwright, performer, director, and activist. The author of nine books on lesbian theatre and sixty-five plays, musicals, and one-woman shows, she specializes in non-traditional roles for women, especially those reclaiming famous lesbians"
facebook.com/OrganizingForW… "incorporating information about child sexual abuse into the narrative of Brandon's life pathologizes the transgendered identity adopted by Brandon and for which she has become an icon. This is perceived as disrespectful and transphobic"
"a strong case can be made that Brandon's transsexualism diagnosis served to enhance her dissociation, impeding recovery from the incest and enabling an escalation of high-risk behaviors based on a dissociated identity."triviavoices.com/the-inconvenie…
carolyngage.weebly.com/blog/a-lesbian… "Queer theory and politic swept through lesbian communities and women’s studies’ departments in the mid-1980’s, dug in during the 1990’s, and appeared to have become entrenched throughout the first decade of the millennium...
... Recently, however, a rising generation of feminists has begun to challenge this hegemony, specifically seeking the voices of lesbian feminist resistance that have been censored for so long..Many of my recent plays are focused on confronting queer theory"
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