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Garber, Linda. 2015. “Claiming Lesbian History: The Romance Between Fact and Fiction” in Journal of Lesbian Studies, 19(1), 129-49.
This is an early and much simpler version of the content in Garber 2022 to which I direct the reader.
fabrisse posting in thisfinecrewandrewduckerljwritesMy current interminable work assignment is draining the soul out of me. Like I need the work and am grateful to have it, but also just ughhh. I'm just barely keeping myself functioning by mainlining the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, plus all kinds of music from my collections that I haven't browsed in a while.
Another way I'm relieving stress is by obsessing about furniture of all things, specifically a new desk that'll replace my current one which has been oversized ever since I changed things around to a split-desk layout for more comfortable seating. Changing the furniture is one of those middle-aged female coping mechanisms I didn't understand when I was younger, along with a taste for trashy drama about getting comeuppance in the face of unjust family situations. I'm turning into my mom in my middle age and I guess that's not a bad thing lol.
mcgathblog_feedEvery year, advocates of an all-powerful federal government claim that June 21 is New Hampshire’s “birthday” because it ratified the Constitution on that day in 1788. Representative Chris Pappas made that absurd claim on Bluesky:
I suppose similar claims are made that the other states weren’t “born” till the Constitution gave them permission. The idea seems to be that in 1788 the federal government brought the states into existence in exchange for ratification. Don’t ask who did the ratifying.
In New Hampshire, we’d been around for a century before that. The first town, Dover, was founded in 1623. It’s older than Boston. New Hampshire was considered part of Massachusetts for a while, but in 1679 King Charles II recognized New Hampshire as a distinct colony. It was briefly assumed into the Dominion of New England but became a separate colony again in 1692. In January 1776 New Hampshire became the first colony to adopt a constitution as an independent state.
The federal government did not give birth to New Hampshire on June 21, 1788. It was the reverse. The new Constitution required the ratification of nine states to go into effect. New Hampshire was the ninth. That day was the birth not of New Hampshire from a parent USA, but rather then birth of the United States under its present Constitution. New Hampshire could be considered the midwife. So I could have called this post “Birth of a Nation,” but you know…
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[A set of wooden shelves, crowded with shipping boxes, padded envelopes, rainbow packing tape, and other shipping paraphernalia. Major Tom’s hinder end is sticking out of a semi-empty space at the end that’s up against the wall.]
He took his sweet time wandering all the way across the table, but I didn’t manage to fumble my camera out until he’d commenced inserting himself into the only place over there that had ANY space left.
[Tom’s stuffed all but his tail into the space, and is in the middle of turning himself around. It’s a bit of a process.]
& by then all I could do was take pictures, intermittently grumble at him, & laugh. He’s the horriblest.
[Tom’s sitting neatly in the space, his head sticking out. He’s gazing contemplatively towards the door, ears perked, whiskers relaxed.]
He’s also the very handsomest, & yes, he WILL use that against you.
[Tom’s now looking up & to the left, neck stretched out. Contemplative, but more in the ‘contemplating shenaniganry’ kind of way.]
YES, there are shelves up there. NO, there is not space for a tomcat. I explained this to him in very clear language. Some of it, I admit, was also fairly rude.
[Tom’s looking down now, in the general direction of the camera.]
He did take a moment to scout a good path, instead of immediately scramming. He’s remarkably calm about being hollered at, despite having grown up feral. I think it’s because he knows I’m full of shit.
[Tom’s making his way out of the corner, now, one paw placed precariously on a fortunately double ziplocked bag of soap.]
He NEVER stays on the rare occasions when he makes his way back to that spot. I don’t know why he bothers going at all, but if he’s having fun, more power to him.
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ysabetwordsmithtorc87. It also fills the "I tried being reasonable. I didn't like it." square in my 7-1-25 card for the Western Bingo fest. This poem belongs to the series One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis. andrewducker
"Sophia, will you pose with your brother for a photo?"
"I will, but I'm very angry about it!"
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alpennia_feedThere's an entire genre of articles on the theme "why is it so hard to find historic evidence for female same-sex relations?" It covers everything from the types of erasures and displacements that Faderman talks about in this article, to the deliberate and selective exclusion of f/f vocabulary from the Oxford English DIctionary (which continues the process of erasure to this day, as people relying on it to be complete and detailed). Time after time you get slapped in the face with the understanding that f/f relations were erased because people considered them shameful and embarrassing. Not even necessarily the people engaged in them! But their biographers, their descendents (who controled their legacy), and most historians up through the late 20th century. If a woman was considered otherwise admirable and praiseworthy, it was important to make sure that nothing "stained" that. And, of course, we can't ignore the contribution of general misogyny, because as we all know a woman must be perfect and of unstained reputation to avoid getting torn down for daring to be a woman in public. But one of the things that Faderman's work points out, is that much of the overt erasure is specifically a product of the post-sexological world.
This is an error that creeps into a great deal of sapphic historical fiction: characters are concerned about aspects of their relationships that actual people of the period would not have blinked at. Sharing a bed? No biggie. Kissing, embracing, and holding hands in public? Utterly normal. Writing love poetry and effusive declarations of affection? But of course! And yet so many current sapphic historicals have characters freaking out over things that their historic counterparts would have taken for granted as, not simply acceptable, but expected behavior. A romance novel requires conflict and roadblocks, but they should be ones that are true to the era, not ones borrowed from the 20th century.
Faderman, Lillian. 1979. “Who Hid Lesbian History?” in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Autumn 1979, Vol. 4, No 3. 74-76. Also appears 1982 in Lesbian Studies; Present and Future ed. Margaret Cruikshank. Feminist Press, Old Westbury.
This article is essentially a teaser for Surpassing the Love of Men (which she explicitly says in the author’s note at the end). Given that, I’m not sure how much value there is to blogging it in detail.
The article starts by reviewing how lesbian aspects of history were being treated before the 1970s, with those aspects either ignored, discussed in coded language, or arbitrarily assigned to some random man. Biographies of women in homoerotic relationships were a particular subject of historical gatekeeping, with even explicit romantic and erotic expressions directed toward other women being forcibly re-interpreted as actually meant to be understood as heterosexual, even if some unnamed hypothetical man needed to be invented to assign the role to.
Another technique was the careful editing of quotations (as was done in Martha Dickinson Bianchi’s edition of Emily Dickinson’s papers) to soften or redirect homoerotic language. Or the relabeling of romantic partners as “companions,” sometimes explicitly for the purpose of “saving” their reputation, even in contexts where illicit affairs with men were acknowledged blatantly. When unavoidable, same-sex relationships may be shrunk down to a brief mention while any possible scrap of evidence for heterosexual relations is elaborated in detail.
Anyway, this is basically a well-deserved rant against the historical erasure of lesbianism which may feel obvious and unnecessary 45 years later.
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It's nice that I had an actual LEGO bit of yellow fleece-like cloth from some random set or other lying around. I think it was from one of the Harry Potter sets. It wasn't meant to be a Golden Fleece, but it works so well as one.
mdlbearWelcome to July, 2025!
It's worth noting that "happy" is a very rare mood tag these days. The last time I used it was in 2019, after Mom's 99th birthday party.
ysabetwordsmith ysabetwordsmith posting in musicianshipsmusicianships. What concerts or other events have you attended? Which musical instruments have you played? What songs have you been listening to? What musical industry news have you heard? What were your other musical activities during June? What plans do you have for July? ysabetwordsmithallbingo. The fest runs from July 1-31. (See all my 2025 bingo cards.) | Bad Girls | Resist Oppression | "The Wayward Wind" | The Harder They Fall | Captive / Slave |
| Close-knit Community | "He’s all hat and no cattle." | Buffalo | "Cool Water" | Gambling |
| "Put me down!" | Dodge | WILD CARD | Redemption Story | Silver / Gold |
| "I tried being reasonable. I didn't like it." | Firefly | Defenestration | Immigrant | Horse |
| Black Hats / White Hats | I'll Get My Revenge | Independent Woman | Sunrise / Sunset | Emotionally Constipated Man |
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billroperysabetwordsmith ysabetwordsmith ysabetwordsmithsunshine_revival is setting up to activate July 1. See the schedule, meet the moderators, and use the master post to navigate the event. Meet new folks in the friending meme. Spread the word!
summerofthe69 is now open! You can see the calendar here and the current themes are Tetris 69 and Body Worship 69. dialecticdreamer
scrubjayspeakssolarbirdNot later; not tonight; RIGHT NOW. Pick up the phone and dial the switchboard if you don’t know their office’s direct number:
(202) 224-3121
Tell your Republican Senator or Senators that you demand they vote AGAINST the Big Ugly Bill that transfers wealth to the billionaire class at a scale not seen in decades if ever, and balloons the national debt to levels never imagined.
They’re still going through amendments. There is still time, if you call RIGHT. NOW.
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