1 hr 13 min
Diving Into Lesbian Love Stories and Uncovering Female Romances and Role Models w/ Amelia Possanza Ivory Tower Boiler Room
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Just in time for Lesbian Visibility Week is an invigorating discussion with Amelia Possanza, a newly minted Lambda Literary Award finalist, about her book "Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives." Get ready to dive deep into the history of lesbian love stories and explore what it meant to express queer female love before the word "lesbian" even existed. Amelia starts with the mythos behind Sappho, an ancient Greek poet who is known for her queer female love poetry! Then Amelia explores the history of queer women like Gloria Anzaldua, Virginia Woolf, and Mabel Hampton.
She explains that encountering these stories helped her understand how these women were embracing a politics of care and love that existed outside of capitalism. Their stories reveal how capitalism has excluded queer bodies and queer stories since they exist outside of patriarchal systems of oppression. You'll learn a lot from Amelia about how these lesbian ancestors and even Walt Whitman's democratic spirit helped her envision what a caring and inclusive democracy actually looks like. And why did a few gay men on her swim team make her want to look underneath the surface of lesbian romance?
You can find Amelia's book on her website: https://www.ameliapossanza.com/
Be sure to follow her on Instagram, @apossanza and X, @AmeliaPossanza
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Just in time for Lesbian Visibility Week is an invigorating discussion with Amelia Possanza, a newly minted Lambda Literary Award finalist, about her book "Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives." Get ready to dive deep into the history of lesbian love stories and explore what it meant to express queer female love before the word "lesbian" even existed. Amelia starts with the mythos behind Sappho, an ancient Greek poet who is known for her queer female love poetry! Then Amelia explores the history of queer women like Gloria Anzaldua, Virginia Woolf, and Mabel Hampton.
She explains that encountering these stories helped her understand how these women were embracing a politics of care and love that existed outside of capitalism. Their stories reveal how capitalism has excluded queer bodies and queer stories since they exist outside of patriarchal systems of oppression. You'll learn a lot from Amelia about how these lesbian ancestors and even Walt Whitman's democratic spirit helped her envision what a caring and inclusive democracy actually looks like. And why did a few gay men on her swim team make her want to look underneath the surface of lesbian romance?
You can find Amelia's book on her website: https://www.ameliapossanza.com/
Be sure to follow her on Instagram, @apossanza and X, @AmeliaPossanza
Follow ITBR on IG, @ivorytowerboilerroom,
TikTok, @ivorytowerboilerroom, and
X, @IvoryBoilerRoom!
Our Sponsors:
Be sure to follow The SoapBox on IG, @thesoapboxny and TikTok, @thesoapboxny and visit their website https://www.soapboxny.com/ to get your hands on their luxurious bath and body products!
To subscribe to The Gay and Lesbian Review visit glreview.org. Click Subscribe, and enter promo code ITBR50 to receive 50% off any print or digital subscription. Follow them on IG, @theglreview.
Head to Broadview Press, an independent academic publisher, for all your humanities related books. Use code ivorytower for 20% off your broadviewpress.com order. Follow them on IG, @broadviewpress.
Order and follow @mandeemadeit (on IG) mention ITBR, and with your first order you'll receive a free personalized
gift!
Follow That Ol' Gay Classic Cinema on IG, @thatolgayclassiccinema
Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/that-ol-gay-classic-cinema/id1652125150
1 hr 13 min