The myth of lesbian generation loss

Finding intergenerational solidarities in digital sexual selfhood projects

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ID12459078
AutoresCati Connell (Boston University, autor de correspondencia), iO Fields (LGBTQ Senior Housing), Elliot Chudyk (University of Victoria)
Año2024
Volumen29
Número4
Páginas1-20
Fecha de publicación2024-04-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Lesbian Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1089-4160 • E-ISSN: 1540-3548
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10894160.2024.2334138
PMID38566309
OpenAlexW4393867871
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas49

The contemporary preoccupation with lesbian's potential obsolescence relies on implicit assumptions about the (ir)relevance of lesbian feminism to younger generations. In this article, we use the metaphor of "generation loss" to conceptualize the Gordian knot of affective and ideological ties that lie beneath this preoccupation. Contrary to the narrative of generation loss, we show how young people have begun to take up and share lesbian feminist concepts on social media platforms like TikTok. They do so in the name of resituating lesbian as a political project rather than an exclusionary demographic category. Instead of painting over lesbian feminism with the broad brushes of whiteness and trans-exclusivity, some young lesbians seek out other voices in the archive to debate whether and how this history might be recuperated as a challenge to white, cisnormative heteropatriarchy. Far from finding irrelevance, many revisiting lesbian feminism are excited to discover theories of gender, sexuality, and power that can be adapted to relocate lesbian to more durable and less essentializing territory than its current, narrowly biopolitical home. This presents a crucial opportunity to build bridges across generations and collectively resist the cooptation of lesbians as agents of white supremacist and transphobic political agendas

Aesthetics · Art · Feminism · Human sexuality · Ideology · Lesbian · Literature · Metaphor · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

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