lesbian bars
Why We’re Stuck on the Last Ditch
Why does the public delight in watching lesbian bars unravel?
2020s
dyke bars
How to Be an Activist: the 1980s from Auntie Valerie Walker
How racist is queer life? And how do you be a 40+ year activist despite it? Auntie Valerie Walker tells all, including how "the bar scene is its own movement."
OurDykeHistories
The 1980s: Sex, Space, and Survival, with Sarah Schulman, Valarie Walker, & Katherine V. Forrest
In the first of two episodes on the 1980s, Jack chats with Sarah Schulman, Katherine V. Forrest, and Valerie Walker re lesbian bars, bookstores, queer parties, sex and sex parties, race and racism, AIDS, activism, and the worlds we made from them.
whiteness
We Never Left Laramie: White LGBTQ Consciousness
Some thoughts on the queerness and whiteness of leftist protests.
bi spaces
It's Closed Now: Our Decades-Long Fixation with Lost Dykedom
A meditation on the it's-closed-now rhetoric of lezbiqueertrans spaces--why it's true and how it traps anyone wanting to build a better world.