Radical Self-Representation in a Hostile Setting: Discursive Strategies of the Russian Lesbian Feminist Movement by Oxana R. Mikhaylova, Galina V. Gradoselskaya

“…We find that, in a hostile anti-LGBT legal and discursive environment, self-representation of lesbian feminists is mostly linked to issues of aggression, violence, and systemic social, political, and legal constraints, unlike in the United States; it is also based on separation from the wider society and dehumanization of bearers of patriarchal views.…”
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Social Justice and Lesbian Feminism: Two Theories Applied to Homophobia by Denise L. Levy

“…Rawls’ theory of justice and lesbian feminist theory are especially relevant to the issue of homophobia and provide a useful lens to understanding this social problem. …”
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An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon by Jaime Harker

“…In the following excerpt from The Lesbian South, Jaime Harker describes how lesbian feminist authors have reinvented the imagined spaces of the US South through print culture, activism, and intentional communities. …”
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When the "tenth muse" inspires rap musica and drums: from the political uses of Sappo's figure by lesbians and feminist voices in contemporary Brazil by Lettícia Batista Rodrigues Leite

“…The object of this article is to draw attention to a dimension of the reception of the memories around the poet Sappho and the Island of Lesbos: that represented by the political uses made by militants and feminists groups and, above all, lesbian-feminist groups. Through the presentation and commentary of two examples currently found in Brazil, that I intend to draw attention to the relevance of the analysis of this type of reception.…”
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Fresh Starts Behind Bars ... Teaching with the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program by Deanna Chappell Belcher

“…I borrow from Audre Lorde’s introduction to her 1979 essay “Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist’s Response” to introduce this piece. This article is not a theoretical discussion nor a how-to article. …”
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Strange Bedfellows: Anti-trans Feminists, VOX Supporters and Biologicist Academics

“…We hypothesized that lesbian feminist groups had been the necessary allies for the inclusion of trans women, often based on factors like personal friendship ties, and their leadership in addressing sexual rights (Platero & Arjonilla, 2015). …”
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“Volatile, feral and glamorous”: Australia’s Women’s Warehouse by Louise R. Mayhew

“…The Women’s Warehouse was an unproclaimed, yet undeniably, lesbian feminist space. This paper begins research into the feminist politics, presentation and perception of the house.…”
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Produire des archives lesbiennes : transmissions communautaires et connexions temporelles by Mathilde Petit

“…Through these militant speeches, the need for a lesbian-feminist analysis is emerging, to work for reappropriation of past archive materials, creating corpus vectors of new meanings. …”
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Parallel Universes? Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For (1983-2008) and Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist (1991-1996) by Hélène Tison

“…Both reflect the debates within lesbian feminist groups, the tensions between lesbian and straight feminists, and the strategies that can be deployed in the face of discrimination. …”
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Academic publishing as a novice lesbian scholar: an intersectional experience by Encinas, Mabel

“…This exploration uses Black lesbian feminist theory and an autoethnographic-informed approach to analyse poetry. …”
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Female Subversion through Sex Work: Transgressive Discourses by Marta Olasik

“…More importantly, however, a framework of a conceptual interdisciplinary approach needs to be adopted—one in which a specific queer form of lesbian feminist reflection is combined with human geography, both of which have much to offer to various strands of sociological theory and practice. …”
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El silencio es como el hambre: Cherríe Moraga y el feminismo chicano lesbiano transfronterizo by Sayak Valencia Triana

“…In this sense, recovering the voices of Chicana lesbian feminists is essential to weave a historical memory of resistance in the new frontiers of gender, sexuality, and racism. …”
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A genealogy of lesbian feminisms in New Zealand: Some implications for young lesbian health and wellbeing by Katie Palmer du Preez, Deborah Payne, Lynne Giddings

“…In the 1970s, radical lesbian feminists identifi ed heterosexuality as a socially glorifi ed state of being, and organised to resist social pressure to conform to heteronorms. …”
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Jovens feministas do Rio de Janeiro: trajetórias, pautas e relações intergeracionais Young feminists of Rio de Janeiro: life stories, agendas and intergenerational relationships by Julia Paiva Zanetti

“…<br>Throughout its history feminism was supported by many young generations, but only very recently young women began to claim knowledge, and opened discussions in specific areas within the youth movement, as black and lesbian feminists have done in previous decades. Starting from the life stories of four young feminists in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area, this paper aims to contribute to the understanding of how young people have approached, inserted, and seen them selves within the movement.…”
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The Poetics of Coming Out and Being Out: Feminist Activism in Cis Lesbian and Trans Women’s Poetic Narratives by Jennifer Earles

“…Both cisgender radical-lesbian feminists and trans feminists consider coming out as not only crucial for the realization of self, but also an important tactic for taking up space and intervening in a heteronormative world. …”
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Poder heterosexual y movimientos socio-sexuales: Tensiones no resueltas by Adriana Granados Barco

“…Heterosexual power and socio-sexual movements: unresolved tensions Abstract: Since the 1980s African-American and Latin American lesbian feminists have criticized the racism, classism and heterosexual impositions of the Anglo- European feminist movement. …”
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