Lesbian Lives

Lesbian Lives

South Africa

Südafrika

I have been photographing and interviewing lesbian women around the world for several years now for The Lesbian Lives Project. The aim of this project is to create greater visibility for lesbians and draw attention to their legal and social discrimination.
  In some countries, lesbians are prosecuted by the state and imprisoned. In other countries, they enjoy some rights, yet are far from achieving full equality with heterosexual men and women. In my experience, it has become apparent that this inequality, coupled with social stigma, leads to a sense of powerlessness among lesbians and a great deal of trauma. It is my conviction that in order to advance as a global community, we must grant equal rights to all people as soon as possible.
  The stories of these women are being published as a book series. The first two volumes, which will be published in 2018 and 2019, investigate the dangers, struggles and discrimination that lesbians face today in South Africa and Switzerland.

Das Lesbian Lives Project beinhaltet Fotos von, und Interviews mit, lesbischen Frauen weltweit. Ziel ist die grössere Sichtbarkeit von Lesben und ihrer gesetzlichen und sozialen Diskriminierung. In manchen Ländern werden Lesben staatlich verfolgt und landen im Gefängnis, in anderen haben sie gewisse Rechte, von Gleichstellung mit Heterosexuellen sind sie jedoch weit entfernt. Aufgrund dieser Ungleichheit und dem sozialem Stigma fühlen sich lesbische Frauen machtlos und traumatisiert. Wollen wir als globale Gemeinschaft weiterkommen, so müssen meiner Überzeugung nach so schnell wie möglich gleiche Rechte für alle gelten.
       Die Geschichten der Frauen erscheinen als Buchreihe. Die ersten beiden Bände befassen sich mit den Gefahren, Herausforderungen und Diskriminierungen, mit denen Lesben heute in Südafrika und in der Schweiz konfrontiert sind.

What does it mean to live as a lesbian woman today?

Was bedeutet es, heutzutage als lesbische Frau zu leben?

When it comes to gay rights, Switzerland is ranked 26th among 49 European countries, at the same level as Rumania. Although lesbians are generally well accepted in Swiss society, they hardly enjoy the same rights as heterosexual men and women. For example, there are no laws providing marriage equality or protection from hate speech directed at LGBTI people.
   This book delves into the stories of Swiss lesbians, in particular, the stories of two moms living with their daughter in Winterthur, a Catholic priest who blessed a lesbian couple in his church, the outrage that followed the ceremony, and a woman who was attacked because she dates women.
Lesbian Women in Switzerland, Three Stories

In Bezug auf den Umgang mit den Rechten von Lesben und Schwulen steht die Schweiz unter den 49 europäischen Ländern an 26. Stelle und damit auf dem gleichen Niveau wie Rumänien. Obwohl Lesben in der Schweizer Gesellschaft allgemein anerkannt sind, geniessen sie bei Weitem nicht die gleichen Rechte wie heterosexuelle Frauen und Männer: So gibt es keine Gleichstellung hinsichtlich der Eheschliessung, und keine Gesetze gegen homophobe Äusserungen.
           Dieses Buch erforscht die Geschichten von Lesben in der Schweiz, genauer gesagt, von zwei Müttern, die mit ihrer Tochter in Winterthur leben, von der Segnung eines Frauenpaars durch einen katholischen Priester in seiner Kirche und dem Skandal, der auf die Zeremonie folgte, und von einer Frau, die attackiert wurde, weil sie Beziehungen mit Frauen hat.

Black lesbians from South African townships are often raped and sometimes killed by men, to teach them a lesson, to turn them into “real”—meaning: heterosexual—women. These hate crimes, for various reasons, are rarely persecuted, even though the country's constitution protects lesbians from discrimination and grants them full equality.
   The book investigates the discrepancy between the progressive South African laws and the dismal situation on the ground, and provides insight into what it means to live as a black lesbian in Johannesburg today.
In den Townships von Südafrika kommt es oft zu Vergewaltigungen bis hin zu Morden an schwarzen lesbischen Frauen durch Männer, die ihnen eine Lektion erteilen und sie zu „richtigen“—das heisst, heterosexuellen—Frauen machen wollen. Zwar schützt die Verfassung Südafrikas Lesben vor Diskriminierung und garantiert ihnen volle Gleichstellung, doch werden solche Hassverbrechen selten verfolgt. Dieses Buch untersucht die Kluft zwischen den fortschrittlichen Gesetzen Südafrikas und der tristen Realität und gibt Einblicke in den Alltag von schwarzen Lesben im heutigen Johannesburg.
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freelance photographer and writer based in Africa and specializes in corporate and editorial photography. At the same time, she pursues her own work which focuses on long-term journalistic projects. Real’s first book,

Army of One , investigating the lives of American veterans after Iraq, was published a few years ago. She started working on The Lesbian Lives Project in 2012.
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Freelance-Fotografin und Journalistin und lebt in Afrika. Sie fotografiert für internationale Redaktionen und Firmen. Daneben verfolgt sie als Schwerpunkt ihrer eigenen Arbeit langfristige journalistische Projekte. Vor einigen Jahren erschien Reals erstes Buch

Army of One und untersuchte das Leben US-amerikanischer Veteranen und ihr Leben nach Irak. Seit 2012 arbeitet sie am Lesbian Lives Project.

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Lens | Photos of Lesbian Lives Meant to Inspire a Movement
Photos of Lesbian Lives Meant to Inspire a Movement
Joan E. Biren began to photograph at a time when it was almost impossible to find authentic images of lesbians and aimed to help build a movement for their liberation.
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When I picture JEB — Joan E. Biren — she’s in motion, journeying across America with her infamous “Dyke Show” in tow. She’s making images of lesbians at home, with lovers and raising babies. She’s in on the action of marching and mourning, sleeping and singing, protesting and partying.
Officially called “Lesbian Images in Photography: 1850-the present,” the “Dyke Show,” as it was popularly known, offered an alternative history of photography. It included JEB and others like her. At once pedagogical, political and practical — JEB typically paired her slide show with workshops — the show offered new ways of looking and of being seen.
Accessibility was always crucial to JEB, a self-taught photographer with a DIY drive. She never made photographs with gallery walls in mind. “Too reminiscent of the closet,” she said. “And you can’t build a movement from inside a closet.”
Given the choice between “suit and street,” she aimed for the widest possible audience.
“I was offered a solo show at the Leslie-Lohman Museum” of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York, “but turned it down,” she said. “My work belongs in public.” Instead, the team at Leslie-Lohman offered her the yearlong QUEERPOWER facade commission , beginning June 1.
At eight feet tall and facing Wooster Street from the museum’s windows, 19 of JEB’s images will be equally accessible to the witting gallery-goer and unwitting passer-by. “Being Seen Makes a Movement Possible” is more than the installation’s title, it’s JEB’s artistic philosophy and modus operandi. Speaking by phone from her home in Silver Spring, Maryland, JEB makes it clear that movement building has been the cornerstone of her career.
“I started photographing at a time when it was almost impossible to find authentic images of lesbians,” she said. “I wanted my photographs to be seen : I believed they could help build a movement for our liberation.”
JEB was inspired by two friends who were also mentors. “I watched them, and I read what they wrote, and I translated it into visuals that I needed to share as widely as possible,” she recalled. “Barbara Deming taught me to be still and to listen. Audre Lorde taught me to be active and to speak out.”
Photography was inherently collaborative for her, and she rejected the “predatory language” of terms like “capture,” “shoot” and even “subject.” Instead, she preferred “muses” on both sides of the camera. “If I was making a picture of a woman who was naked, I’d ask if she wanted me to take my clothes off, too,” she said. “Women usually said yes to this! It was a way to try to break down the hierarchy, to make the scene an equal exchange.” The stripped-down context created a different — let’s call it queer — scene: collaboration as reciprocity, as conversation, as tandem movement.
Lesbian and feminist venues didn’t have money to pay for her images, but JEB wanted them in women’s hands, homes and bookstores. So she gave them away for use in newspapers and calendars, and on posters and postcards. Hers was a financially precarious calling. “Visibility was always more important to me than economic stability,” she explained.
“Lesbian-famous” for decades, JEB is now being recognized in ways she finds “quite delightful and odd.” In 2017, her alma mater, Mount Holyoke College, gave her an honorary doctorate of fine arts. In 2018, she received the Alice Austen Award for Advancement in Photography for her “extraordinary accomplishments” in documenting queer lives. And in 2019, her work will be in at least eight major exhibitions marking the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.
JEB, who turns 75 this year, is not content to look back nostalgically and savor her accomplishments. She keeps the future of her work and of the movement clearly in sight, spending years organizing her archives and, in quintessential JEB fashion, helping other women do the same.
“I used to think of myself as a propagandist, then a photojournalist, then a documentarian,” she said. “Now, I’m a preservationist.”
On April 10, moving trucks will arrive at her Maryland home to transport her life’s work to the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College in Massachusetts. It is vital that those “Dyke Show” slides, her negatives and contact sheets are available and easily searchable for activists, researchers and historians.
If “gay liberation” sometimes feels like distant history because of the gains we’ve made legally and socially, JEB is quick to remind us that “our basic civil rights are being threatened,” making “the fight to preserve our lives and our liberties” an ongoing struggle. It requires vigilance.
It also requires movement . Photographs, for JEB, are vital to that. “They are evidence of our brave history and can inspire the spirt of love and resistance we need now.” She gets choked up when she tells me how moved she is when her work moves people.
“To this day I have women, even young women, tell me that my photographs make a difference, help them to see themselves, to dare to come out,” she said. “If silence equals death, invisibility also equals death.”
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Common Lives/Lesbian Lives ( CL/LL ) was a collectively produced lesbian quarterly which published out of Iowa City , Iowa , from 1981 to 1996. [1] The magazine had a stated commitment to reflect the diversity of lesbians by actively soliciting and printing in each issue the work and ideas of lesbians of color, Jewish lesbians, fat lesbians, lesbians over fifty and under twenty years old, disabled lesbians, poor and working-class lesbians, and lesbians of varying cultural backgrounds. Common Lives/Lesbian Lives was a cultural milestone in the lesbian publishing world, as it was one of the first lesbian journal or magazine published from outside the urban/coastal New York/Los Angeles/Berkeley scene. [2]

CL/LL was initiated by eight lesbians who were living in the Los Angeles area in late 1980; Catherine Nicholson and Harriet Desmoines, co-founders of periodical Sinister Wisdom encouraged the women by stating that more lesbian journals were needed because Sinister Wisdom received more submissions than it could print. [3] : 15 Cindy Cleary, Anne Lee, and Tracy Moore (Moore had been involved in the collective that published Iowa City's feminist newsletter Ain't I a Woman? from 1971 to 1974) formed the core group of the journal, and all worked on the magazine after their move to Iowa City later that year. [2] [3] : 15–16

The existence of the Iowa City Women's Press and a typesetting firm owned and operated by women made Iowa City an inviting home for the new journal. [2]

The first issue of Common Lives/Lesbian Lives was published in 1981, and the journal eventually reached a peak circulation of about 2500 national and international subscribers. [3] : 15 When the journal's main distributor, Inland, declared bankruptcy in 1995, CL/LL was no longer able to continue publication. [2]

The publishing collective wanted the magazine to be "inclusive, non-academic, diverse and accessible" [3] : 15 Most contributors had never been published before. [3] : 22

All work published in CL/LL was produced by self-defined lesbians, and all of the project's volunteers were lesbians. [2] Due to this policy, a complaint was filed with the University of Iowa Human Rights Commission by a heterosexual woman who believed she was discriminated against when not hired to be an intern. [2] A complaint was also lodged with the University of Iowa Human Rights Commission by a bisexual woman whose submission to the magazine was not published. [2]

The University of Iowa printing department refused to print Issue 20 (1982) because it contained photographs of lesbians making love, and the magazine sued the University and won. [2]

The 1995 fall issue was not published, and eventually Issue 56, which was to be the last, was published as the 1995–1996 issue. Despite efforts to raise money, Common Lives/Lesbian Lives officially closed in 1997. [2]

The Iowa Women's Archives in the University of Iowa Libraries now hosts Cl/LL archival material.

The Lavender Library, Archives and Cultural Exchange in Sacramento , California holds a substantial collection of the magazines. [4]

Some of the contributors to the magazine include: Elana Dykewomon , Tee Corinne , Sapphire , [5] Hawk Madrone, Julia Penelope , Candis Graham , Martha Miller, and Ruth Mountaingrove ,

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Sinister Wisdom is calling for submissions for a special issue rooted in and inspired by the quarterly Common Lives/Lesbian Lives .
Published by lesbians in Iowa City, IA from 1980 to 1996, CL/LL was born in response to Sinister Wisdom ’s call for more lesbian periodicals because of a lack of our own media. Its mission was to reflect the complexity and richness of the lives of ordinary lesbians--women who have always struggled to survive and create a culture for ourselves. CL/LL was committed to reflecting lesbian diversity by soliciting and printing lesbian work expressing varieties of ethnicity, color, background, education, size, age, physical ability, class, and culture. We felt responsible to ensure access to women whose lives had traditionally been denied visibility and to encourage lesbians who had never before thought of publishing to do so.
Today, 26 years since the last issue of Common Lives/Lesbian Lives and 40 years since its first, Sinister Wisdom is planning a tribute issue to the magazine. While committed to publishing new work (deadline March 31 2022), the issue will also feature articles and visual art chosen from the historic CL/LL issues.
The Common Lives/Lesbian Lives tribute issue will feature current, fresh and challenging work by writers and artists who respond to this call for fiction, non-fiction, poetry and art.
Check out our Common Lives / Lesbian Lives resources and Common Lives / Lesbian Lives’s archive for more information and inspiration.

Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2022
Any questions can be sent to sinisterwisdom@gmail.com
Sinister Wisdom appreciates Martha Nell Smith and the Dickinson Electronic Archives for providing website hosting and Shayne Brandon at the IATH at UVa for his invaluable technical assistance and expertise.

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