Podcast appearances and mentions of joan nestle

Joan Nestle is a living icon. At 84 years of age her contributions to LGBTIQ+ communities have been numerous and immensely significant. She co-founded both the Gay Academic Union and the Lesbian Herstory Archives in New York, wrote seminal works such as A Restricted Country and A Persistent Desire and to this day, continues her work as an advocate and activist. Joan is part of the extraordinary line-up at this year's Midsumma writers' event, Wise Words – A Night of Intergenerational Storytelling, which features a line-up of some of Australia's most prominent and talented LGBTIQ+ women (trans and non-binary inclusive). 2025 line-up includes MC Sarah Ward, Joan Nestle, Mama Alto, Sez, Hana Assafiri, and Isobel Morphy-Walsh. For more information and to get tickets go to the Midsumma page here Please note, this episode of Well Well Well contains sensitive content.

"Jeg vælger at være på den måde, jeg er. Jeg er ikke født sådan her. Jeg ønsker borgerrettigheder på grundlag af værdighed og selvvalg. Jeg vil ikke være som alle andre. Jeg elsker at elske med kvinder". Sådan siger Joan Nestle, amerikansk forfatter og mangeårig aktivist i kampen for kvinders seksuelle frihed og ligestilling. En ny bog med titlen 'Hjertet begærer' fortæller om lesbisk kulturhistorie og de kampe, som kvinder, der begærer deres medsøstre, har måttet stå igennem siden det 18. århundrede. Hvordan er de lesbiskes historie blevet fortalt gennem tiden? Hvordan levede man som lesbisk før det blev socialt acceptabelt? Og er kampen tilendebragt? Det er nogle af spørgsmålene i dagens udgave af Kampen om Historien, hvor Adam Holm taler med Karin Cohr Lützen, ph.d. og lektor emerita i historie ved RUC samt forfatter til 'Hvad hjertet begærer'. I redaktionen: Clara Faust Spies og Josephine Gaïa Utoft. Redaktør: Silke Fensman. Musik: Adi Zukanovic.

A legend walks into the studio, as Yves and Clare are joined by queer royalty, Joan Nestle. In 1974, Joan founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives in her home in New York. Fifty years later, Yves and Clare ask: how DO you start an archive from scratch, especially when so much of the history you are documenting has been lived underground? Why are archives the counter-narrative to a nation's institutional history? Can an archival collection be both narrowly defined and broadly inclusive? How did a hundred women end up on Joan's bed? And is it ever kosher to disguise your identity to steal photos of Eleanor Roosevelt and her lover?

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This week, we're sharing the story of Ms. Mabel Hampton, in partnership with The Lesbian Herstory Archives. Ms. Hampton (1902-1989) was an African-American lesbian, an activist, a dancer, a singer, and a domestic worker. She was also a dear friend and mentor of Joan Nestle, one of The Lesbian Herstory Archives' founders. Between 1976 and 1988, Joan Nestle sat down with Ms. Hampton numerous times to record a series of oral history interviews. We've pulled bits and pieces from these tapes to share some of Ms. Hampton's life story. The Lesbian Herstory Archives is home to the world's largest collection of materials by and about Lesbians and our communities.This episode is a part of a series we're calling Cruising the Archives. We're featuring extended interviews with LGBTQ+ icons from our own archives, as well as from the collections of queer and lesbian archives throughout the country.Thank you for listening to Cruising Podcast!-Reviews help other listeners find Cruising! If you like what you hear, please subscribe and leave us a 5-star review!-For more Cruising adventures, follow us @cruisingpod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook-Support Cruising here! Cruising is an independent podcast. That means we're entirely funded by sponsors and listeners like you!-Cruising is reported and produced by a small but mighty team of three: Sarah Gabrielli (host/story producer/audio engineer), Rachel Karp (story producer/social media manager), and Jen McGinity (line producer/resident road-trip driver). Theme song is by Joey Freeman.  Cover art is by Nikki Ligos. Logo is by Finley Martin.Support the Show.

“The thing that I am fighting against is the same thing that I think that the impulse to found the Lesbian Herstory Archives in 1974 was. We are in a life struggle project, which is to stop erasure and build stronger coalitions with people that are battling a lot of repression. And I think that liberatory projects absolutely depend on intergenerational knowledge sharing.” Ariel GoldbergLast year, the Jewish Museum of Maryland presented an exhibition titled Material/Inheritance: Contemporary Work by New Jewish Culture Fellows. Curated by Leora Fridman and presented in partnership with the New Jewish Culture Fellowship, this groundbreaking show featured 30 Jewish artists dealing with themes like chosen and biological family, queer and trans identities, embodiment and sexuality, diasporic homes, ritual reinventions, activist movements, political histories, and so much more.One of the artists featured in Material/Inheritance, Ariel Goldberg, contributed to the exhibition by creating an episode of the Disloyal podcast with co-hosts Mark Gunnery and Naomi Rose Weintraub. Ariel Goldberg is a writer, curator, and photographer based in New York City who curated a show titled Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s. That exhibition, which is on view at the Chicago Cultural Center through August 4, 2024, explores photographic documentation of activism, education, and media production within lesbian, trans, queer, and feminist grassroots organizing from the 1970s through the 1990s. It was commissioned by the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati as part of the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial, and was on view at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York City last year. On this episode of Disloyal, Goldberg talks about their research into the Lesbian Herstory Archives (LHA) traveling slideshows, reading texts related to that project, and playing audio from interviews they did with the LHA's Joan Nestle and Alexis Danzig. They also spoke to Disloyal hosts Mark Gunnery and Naomi Rose Weintraub about queer imaging practices, the importance of intergenerational knowledge sharing in queer communities, and ways that images and education fit into social movements. You can see Ariel Goldberg on Tuesday, May 14, on Zoom or at the Center for New Jewish Culture in Brooklyn, New York, where they will be hosting an event called Abundant, Rich Lives: Returning to the Lesbian Herstory Archives Slideshow. Ariel will be in conversation with longtime activists Alexis Danzig and Deborah Edel about the Lesbian Herstory Archives slideshow, and they will screen clips of a recently digitized version of it. The panel will also reflect on media production within lesbian, queer, and trans grassroots organizing of the recent past and its relevance for today's social movement struggles.

Dans cette émission, nous nous intéressons à l'histoire de la non-histoire des lesbiennes. Contestation la plus radicale des modèles sexuels, les lesbiennes peuvent démonter le jeu sexuel et social qui se joue sur la scène patriarcale. C'est pourquoi elles ont été souvent occultées. Dans ce troisième et dernier volet nous revenons sur les luttes et les revendications de la communauté lesbienne depuis les années 50 jusqu'à nos jours. extraits : Etre fem dans les années 50 de Joan Nestle, Thérèse et Isabelle de Violette Leduc, Le corps lesbien de Monique Wittig, Stone blues butch de Leslie Feinberg,Le pulp description de Yuri, La petite dernière de Fatima Daas, La Gourgandine de Françoise Rey musiques : All I want is to be your girl de Holly Miranda, I wanna be me song de Domo Wilson, Barbara Butch, Suzie Noma de Muthoni Drummer Queen

Catching up on some hot take submissions from the past couple months, we discuss the politics of "coming out," especially within the context of online queer fanbases bullying celebrities out of the closet re: Kit Connor (whom we mistakenly call the name of an American Girl Doll in this episode lol), Becky Albertalli, and the misusage of the term "queerbait" in the current media landscape. Sunny complains extensively about the popular liberal queer assimilationist politics especially as mediated by the internet, and references the following books this episode— The Society of the Spectacle by Guy DeBord, Lesbian Choices by Claudia Card, The Persistent Desire: A Butch-Femme Reader edited by Joan Nestle, and probably some other titles. We talk about using the word "dyke," the loneliness of lesbianism and isolation of navigating the world as someone who doesn't center men, history of autistic lesbians, and online queer community vs. IRL lesbian spaces (and the lack of them.) We discuss an essay collection we both adored but that Renaissance connected with on a spiritual and psychic level; Girls Can Kiss Now by Jill Gutowitz. We talk all about the lesbian pop culture hilarity it compasses, as well as how earnest and genuine the writing feels. Jill, please come on the podcast! For media recommendations, Sunny really enjoyed watching an Irish lesbian film A Date For Mad Mary (2016) in their COVID quarantine era, and Renaissance raves about Tár (2022). Thanks for joining us for this episode! You can find us on Twitter, YouTube, Substack, Instagram, Tik Tok, and Letterboxd if you want to connect! Send your hot takes to thelavendermenacepodcast@gmail.com and support us on Patreon for bonus content and early access: https://www.patreon.com/TheLavenderMenace

The 12-story Women's House of Detention, situated in the heart of Greenwich Village in New York City, from 1932 to 1974, was central to the queer history of The Village. The House of D, as it was known, housed such inmates as Angela Davis, Afeni Shakur, Andrea Dworkin, and Valerie Solanas, and was formative in their thinking and writing. On the night of the Stonewall Riots, the incarcerated women and transmaculaine people in the House of D, a few hundred feet away from The Stonewall Inn, joined in, chanting “Gay power!” and lighting their possessions on fire and throwing them out the windows onto the street in solidarity. Joining me to help us understand more about the Women's House of Detention and its role in queer history is historian and writer Hugh Ryan, author of the 2022 book, The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison. Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag, composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. Image Credit: “Women's House of Detention, Jefferson Market Courthouse, View Northwest from West 8th Street, at Sixth and Greenwich Avenues, 1943,” Municipal Archives, Department of Public Works Collection. Additional Sources: “Prison Memoirs: The New York Women's House of Detention,” by Angela Davis,The Village Voice, Originally published October 10, 1974. “The Women's House of Detention,” by Sarah Bean Apmann, Village Preservation, January 29, 2018. “Women's House of Detention,” 1931-1974, by Joan Nestle, Out History, Historical Musings 2008. “'The Women's House of Detention' Illuminates a Horrific Prison That 'Helped Define Queerness for America',” by Gabrielle Bruney, Jezebel, May 9, 2022. “Site of the Women's House of Detention (1932-1974),” by Rebecca Woodham and Clio Admin,” Clio: Your Guide to History. February 26, 2021. “The Queer History of the Women's House of Detention,” by Hugh Ryan, The Activist History Review, May 31, 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen to legendary author Joan Nestle as she elaborates on her lesbian life experiences growing up in the Bronx, coming out against the backdrop of the butch-femme bars of the 50s-60s. Hear her tales of accusations of pornography by the feminists of the 70s, co-founding the Lesbian Herstory Archives and spending the last twenty years with her love in Australia. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/beth-maples-bays/support

Interviews with queer feminist activists Joan Nestle and Alison Thorne, recorded at 3CR with James McKenzie in February and June 2018.  

Mark Segal and Joan Nestle were both living in New York City at the time of the Stonewall Uprising. Fifty years after the historic event, they reflect on how it changed their lives.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Are you on your path toward Food Peace™ yet struggling with a part of your body acceptance? Do you live in a body that gets misgendered including in recovery spaces? You can have access to Food Peace too. Listen to expert guest Vaughn Darst as he explores this part of the journey on the latest episode and season 3 finale of the Love Food Podcast. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peaceand Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. I want to share the work going on within Decolonizing Fitness. The person behind it, Ilya Parker, is a trans person of color Physical Therapist Assistant and Medical Exercise Coachwith over 13 years of rehabilitative and functional training experience. He is a social justice advocate and educator whose work centers gender, racial and healing justice. He decided to merge his love for restorative based movement practices and community advocacy to create Decolonizing Fitness, LLC; which is a social justice platform that provides affirming fitness services, community education and apparel in support of body diversity. Check out www.decolonizingfitness.com. This episode's Dear Food letter: Dear Food, We've had a rough ride. The past 5 years have been a constant flux of hating you, loving you, wanting you, needing you, abandoning you, and re-discovering you, all the while changing the body in which relates to you. Though it really didn't change a lot at all; in fact it's stayed relatively the same, but this un-changing body can just looks so different. On different days, in different mirrors, in different rooms, at different times, with different people, after different meals, it looks so different and I'm not sure which to believe anymore. I've come to accept this changing perception and try my best to give way to the kinder ones and not give much room to the less friendly ones. This has helped me come to a much better stage in my recovery and my relation to you (Food).   But there's something I feel pulling me back into unhealthy thought patterns and coping strategies.I'm a non-binary trans people who has not been through any physical transition processes yet and, although I've managed to accept many parts of my body that I have felt hatred towards previously, I find it impossible too accept it as a whole. Because there are parts that I unequivocally don't want, for example breasts, and so I don't feel I can experience my body as a whole. At least not as long as I still experience this kind of dysphoria.   The thing is, Food, I don't feel like I can resolve my relationship with you and move forward in my recovery while I can't resolve my relationship with my body and my gender dysphoria. The part that I struggle with the most is that there is a distinct lack of resources and inclusion of trans people and bodies in rhetoric about eating disorders. Often, when I'm seeking help, I find myself confronted with invalidation of my gender identity and a sense of loneliness in my struggles. In fact, I tried to access counseling and they required everyone to take a nutritional information course first, in which they proceeded to mis-gender me and almost exclusively talked about anorexia and female body ideals as though that were the only issue in the room.   Now I know I'm not the only non-binary trans person to experience an eating disorder and/or gender dysphoria but I feel quite lost at sea in this struggle and don't know where I'm suppose to swim to next.   Yours sincerely, Drowning in Gender-norms Show Notes: 6 Keys To Food Peace™️ blog post Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. The 6 Keys to Food Peace Vaughn Darst's Instagram: @AllGenderNutrition Vaughn Darst's website: AllGenderNutrition.com My New Gender Workbook: A Step-by-step guide to achieving world peace through gender anarchy and sex positivity by Katie Bornstein Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Gender Binary by Joan Nestle, Clare Howell, and Riki Wilchins Eating Disorder Dietitians Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA We go back to the night in June 1969 at the New York City Stonewall Inn that sparked the LGBT rights movement. On today's show we'll hear about the day that galvanized a generation and the continued fight for LGBT civil rights. The first Pride parades took place in June 1970 marking the 1st anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. Michael Schirker and David Isay bring us an oral history Remembering Stonewall: The Birth of a Movement. Editor at large of the Huffington Posts' Gay Voices Michelangelo Signorile says while there have been a series of recent wins for the LGBT rights movement, bigotry remains a daily reality for many. At a  New America NYC forum Signorile spoke with June Thomas, Culture Critic and Editor of Outward, Slate's LGBTQ Section about what he calls “victory blindness”. It's a central theme in his new book, titled “It's Not Over, Getting to Beyond Tolerance Defeating Homophobia and Winning True Equality.” Special thanks to Pacifica Radio Archives for “Remembering Stonewall: The Birth of a Movement” produced by David Isay for Pacifica Radio http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org Special thanks to New America NYC for It's Not Over: Winning True Equality https://www.newamerica.org/nyc/its-not-over-2/ Featuring: President Barack Obama, Geane Harwood, Bruce Merrow, Sylvia Rivera, Deputy Inspector Seymor Pine, Red Mahoney; Joan Nestle, founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archive; Randy Wicker; Jim Fouratt, yippie leader and helped found the Gay Liberation Front; Howard Smith, reporter for the Village Voice; Martin Boyce aka Miss Martin, Rudy; Mama Jean; Michelangelo Signorile host of the Michelangelo Signorile Sirius XM, editor at large of the Huffington Posts' Gay Voices, and author of It's Not Over, Getting Beyond Tolerance Defeating Homphobia and Winning True Equality; and June Thomas, Culture Critic and Editor of Outward, Slate's LGBTQ section. More information: Remembering Stonewall: a radio documentary on the birth of a movement / narrated by Michael Schirker and produced by David Isay. Soundportraits: Remembering Stonewall full transcripts Brain Pickings: After Stonewall: The First-Ever Pride Parades in Vintage Photos Columbia: Stonewall and Beyond: Lesbian and Gay Culture The Pacifica Radio/UC Berkeley Social Activism Sound Recording Project: Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transsexual History New America NYC: It's Not Over: Winning True Equality Huffington Post, Gay Voices: Michelangelo Signorile On ‘It's Not Over' And The Future Of The LGBT Movement Think Progress: 9 States With Anti-Gay Laws That Aren't That Different From Russia's Time: How Gay Rights Won in Indiana The Leadership Conference: LGBT Civil Rights HuffPost, Gay Voices: As the Wedge Turns: Is a Federal LGBT Civil Rights Act Actually Feasible in the Near Future?   The post Beyond Stonewall:The Push for LGBT Civil Rights appeared first on KPFA.

“First I was a freak, then I was a queer, then I was a femme, then I was a lesbian feminist, I still am all these things, and then a queer femme lesbian feminist, I don't know if it's clear but maybe it's good that it's not clear. My primary definition is as a 50s femme.” - Joan Nestle For episode 25 we talked to Joan Nestle, Lauren Hortie, Mary Woo Sims, Nadine Boulay and Selly Chiam about lesbian identification and identity formation surrounding the word lesbian. Then afterwards we had a discussion with the archives director Elise Chenier and our archivist Meghan Walley of the clips and our take on the question what does the word lesbian mean? Thank you for a great year! Follow this channel for more great content! Please share, like, and send us feedback about the podcast.

LGBTIQ community treasure and herstorian Joan Nestle gives a memorable interview.  Street artist Ms Saffaa talks about her amazing work.3CR broadcasts from the stolen lands of the Kulin Nation. Sovreignty was never ceded in this country.

“Gender is both a social construct, a desire, and also what material possibilities impact on it." - Joan Nestle For episode 4 we spoke to Joan Nestle a long-time activist, educator, and writer who has made landmark contributions to lesbian culture and history. She is the author of Restricted Country, the editor of A Persistent Desire: A Butch-Femme Reader, and the co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn, New York. Today we will discuss one of her interviews from the Herstory archive with Mabel Hampton, an African American lesbian born in 1902. We discuss the changes over time of lesbian norms, language and politics and how one's positionality as the interviewer is complicated by our historical limitations. Watch out for our next episode when we speak to Cameron Duder, about his interview of Shirley Petten who won a same sex benefits landmark ruling against the British Columbia Workers’ Compensation Board. Follow this channel for more great content! Please share, like, and send us feedback about the podcast. Mabel Hampton Tapes http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/document/SPW63 Herstory Archives website http://www.lesbianherstoryarchives.org/

For episode 3 we spoke to Candice Klein, a graduate student in the History department at SFU, about one of her oral history interviews she donated to the Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony through the Lesbian Generations in Vancouver collection. We play a clip from that interview and discuss her current dissertation on "Conflict and the Vancouver Indochinese Women’s Conference of 1971," the clash and convergence of lesbian feminist politics in the 70's, and trans visibility. Watch out for our next episode when we speak to Joan Nestle, feminist heavyweight and cofounder of the Herstory Archives in Brooklyn! Follow this channel for more great content. Please share, like, and send us feedback about the podcast.

Silver Threads Hares and Hyenas Anniversary podcast Silver Threads is a celebration of 25 years of the Hares and Hyenas Bookstore in Fitzroy Melbourne, supported by the UNESCO City of Literature Known Bookshops fund, in association with the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, and in partnership with Melbourne Library Service. Episode 6 - Lesbians in Exile WARNING - the following program contains explicit content and themes In this episode we go back to February 14 in 2015 to the launch of issue 94 of Sinister Wisdom entitled Lesbians in Exile. This live recording features the issue's editors, Joan Nestle and Yasmin Tambiah, and other guests, as they discuss the many facets of exile and its fractured, resilient, and complicated relationship to identity through various readings and of course, intelligent and thought-provoking conversation. Introductory music by Alina, Kevin and Harrison - Melbourne Library Service Produced by Louise Cadell - Melbourne Library Service Mixed and Mastered by Flapjack Industry Records

Silver Threads Hares and Hyenas Anniversary podcast Silver Threads is a celebration of 25 years of the Hares and Hyenas Bookstore in Fitzroy Melbourne, supported by the UNESCO City of Literature Known Bookshops fund, in association with the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, and in partnership with Melbourne Library Service. Episode 4 - Joan Nestle, The Will to Remember WARNING - the following program contains explicit content and themes Proud 'out' lesbian, spokeswoman for butch-femme desire, and a tireless freedom fighter, Joan laid the groundwork for the lesbian, gay and transgender movements of today by claiming her right to her own sexual identity at a time when to do so made her a figure of controversy. Joan reads an excerpt from 'A Fragile Union' titled "The Will to Remember: My Journey with the Lesbian Herstory Archive" and two shorter pieces from 'A Restricted Country'. For more work by Joan see link: librarysearch.melbourne.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin…N=82454 Introductory music by Alina, Kevin and Harrison - Melbourne Library Service Produced by Louise Cadell - Melbourne Library Service Mixed and Mastered by Flapjack Industry Records

Silver Threads Hares and Hyenas Anniversary podcast Silver Threads is a celebration of 25 years of the Hares and Hyenas Bookstore in Fitzroy Melbourne, supported by the UNESCO City of Literature Known Bookshops fund, in association with the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, and in partnership with Melbourne Library Service. Episode 3 - Joan Nestle, Defining Women WARNING - the following program contains explicit content and themes Proud 'out' lesbian, spokeswoman for butch-femme desire, and a tireless freedom fighter, Joan laid the groundwork for the lesbian, gay and transgender movements of today by claiming her right to her own sexual identity at a time when to do so made her a figure of controversy. Joan reads an excerpt from her out of print book 'A Restricted Country' called 'Liberties Not Taken' and a piece called 'Two Women'. For more work by Joan see link: librarysearch.melbourne.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin…N=82454 Introductory music by Alina, Kevin and Harrison - Melbourne Library Service Produced by Louise Cadell - Melbourne Library Service Mixed and Mastered by Flapjack Industry Records

Silver Threads Hares and Hyenas Anniversary podcast Silver Threads is a celebration of 25 years of the Hares and Hyenas Bookstore in Fitzroy Melbourne, supported by the UNESCO City of Literature Known Bookshops fund, in association with the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, and in partnership with Melbourne Library Service. Episode 2 - Joan Nestle, This Huge Light of Yours WARNING - the following program contains explicit content and themes Proud 'out' lesbian, spokeswoman for butch-femme desire, and a tireless freedom fighter, Joan laid the groundwork for the lesbian, gay and transgender movements of today by claiming her right to her own sexual identity at a time when to do so made her a figure of controversy. Joan reads an excerpt from her out of print book 'A Restricted Country' called 'This Huge Light of Yours'. For more work by Joan see link: librarysearch.melbourne.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin…N=82454 Introductory music by Alina, Kevin and Harrison - Melbourne Library Service Produced by Louise Cadell - Melbourne Library Service Mixed and Mastered by Flapjack Industry Records

Silver Threads Hares and Hyenas Anniversary podcast Silver Threads is a celebration of 25 years of the Hares and Hyenas Bookstore in Fitzroy Melbourne, supported by the UNESCO City of Literature Known Bookshops fund, in association with the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, and in partnership with Melbourne Library Service. Episode 1 - Joan Nestle, The Killing Air Proud 'out' lesbian, spokeswoman for butch-femme desire, and a tireless freedom fighter, Joan laid the groundwork for the lesbian, gay and transgender movements of today by claiming her right to her own sexual identity at a time when to do so made her a figure of controversy. Joan reads an introduction to her out of print book 'A Restricted Country' and a piece called 'The Killing Air'. For more work by Joan see link: https://librarysearch.melbourne.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?BRN=82454 Introductory music by Alina, Kevin and Harrison - Melbourne Library Service Produced by Louise Cadell - Melbourne Library Service Mixed and Mastered by Flapjack Industry Records

Joan Nestle has led a passionate life of resistance. We talk about her formative years in the criminalised butch-femme bar scene of New York in the 1950s. There she discovered that desire could not be contained. A working class, Jewish lesbian, Nestle celebrated her marginalisation, and her community carved out a space of their own. From there she became involved in political campaigns including civil rights, gay liberation and feminism. Nestle went on to establish the lesbian herstory archives in New York, and now lives in Melbourne with her partner. Joan Nestle is the author of many books, including A Restricted Country, The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, and GenderQueer: Voices from beyond the Sexual Binary.

In the summer of 1960 Joan Nestle was 20 years old and in love. At the time she lived in a Lower East Side tenement apartment and the city was hot, sweaty and humid. Joan and her girlfriend Carol would ride the subway for an hour and half to Riis Park. Riis Park was and still is an easily accessible queer beach in New York. Joan wrote about these memories in her book, A Restricted Country. Beach goer and producer Cassie Wagler brings us her adaptation of one of the essays found in Joan’s book – Lesbian Memories 1: Riis Park 1960. Poet Iris Cushing is the voice of Joan. Joan Nestle is a femme, a lesbian, a writer, activist and editor, and a scholar of butch-femme history and theory. In 1974 she co-founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives – and the archives were housed in her apt for years. You can read more of Joan’s work on her blog.

We go back to the night in June 1969 at the New York City Stonewall Inn that sparked the LGBT rights movement. On today's show we'll hear about the day that galvanized a generation and the continued fight for LGBT civil rights. The first Pride parades took place in June 1970 marking the 1st anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. Michael Schirker and David Isay bring us an oral history Remembering Stonewall: The Birth of a Movement. Editor at large of the Huffington Posts' Gay Voices Michelangelo Signorile says while there have been a series of recent wins for the LGBT rights movement, bigotry remains a daily reality for many. At a  New America NYC forum Signorile spoke with June Thomas, Culture Critic and Editor of Outward, Slate's LGBTQ Section about what he calls “victory blindness.” It's a central theme in his new book, titled “It's Not Over, Getting to Beyond Tolerance Defeating Homophobia and Winning True Equality.” Special thanks to Pacifica Radio Archives for “Remembering Stonewall: The Birth of a Movement” produced by David Isay for Pacifica Radio http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org Special thanks to New America NYC for It's Not Over: Winning True Equality https://www.newamerica.org/nyc/its-not-over-2/ Featuring: President Barack Obama, Geane Harwood, Bruce Merrow, Sylvia Rivera, Deputy Inspector Seymor Pine, Red Mahoney; Joan Nestle, founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archive; Randy Wicker; Jim Fouratt, yippie leader and helped found the Gay Liberation Front; Howard Smith, reporter for the Village Voice; Martin Boyce aka Miss Martin, Rudy; Mama Jean; Michelangelo Signorile host of the Michelangelo Signorile Sirius XM, editor at large of the Huffington Posts' Gay Voices, and author of It's Not Over, Getting Beyond Tolerance Defeating Homphobia and Winning True Equality; and June Thomas, Culture Critic and Editor of Outward, Slate's LGBTQ section. More information: Remembering Stonewall: a radio documentary on the birth of a movement / narrated by Michael Schirker and produced by David Isay. Soundportraits: Remembering Stonewall full transcripts Brain Pickings: After Stonewall: The First-Ever Pride Parades in Vintage Photos Columbia: Stonewall and Beyond: Lesbian and Gay Culture The Pacifica Radio/UC Berkeley Social Activism Sound Recording Project: Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transsexual History New America NYC: It's Not Over: Winning True Equality Huffington Post, Gay Voices: Michelangelo Signorile On ‘It's Not Over' And The Future Of The LGBT Movement Think Progress: 9 States With Anti-Gay Laws That Aren't That Different From Russia's Time: How Gay Rights Won in Indiana The Leadership Conference: LGBT Civil Rights HuffPost, Gay Voices: As the Wedge Turns: Is a Federal LGBT Civil Rights Act Actually Feasible in the Near Future?   The post Beyond Stonewall: The Push for LGBT Civil Rights appeared first on KPFA.

Joan Nestle speaks about the working class butch and femme bar culture of New York City in the late 1950's. She also touches upon the topic of being a controversial fiction writer in the 1980's. Currently, she has finished co-editing a special issue of multicultural lesbian journal "Sinister Wisdom" with Yasmin Tambiah.

Welcome to episode three! In this episode I talk to Lambda Award winning writer and editor and the co-founder of the Lesbian Her-story Archives  Joan Nestle. Joan identifies as a queer femme, and she sees her […] http://joy.org.au/asiwassaying/wp-content/uploads/sites/299/2015/05/Episode-3-Joan-Nestle_mixdown.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 36:38 — 50.3MB) The post Joan Nestle: International Women’s Day appeared first on As I Was Saying.