Lesbian Testimony Podcast

Apr 14 2018 5 ep. 31 mins 157

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Welcome to Lesbian Testimony! A podcast project from the Archives of Lesbian Testimony to encourage greater engagement with lesbian oral records. Each week host Callie Hitchcock will talk to a donor of the archive about one of their submissions or talk to an oral historian involved in lesbian oral testimony. Visit alotarchives.org for more information. Opening music by Teagan Wahlgren

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Bonus Episode: Rose Norman

Apr 14 2018 22 mins

“I came out when I was 40. So a lot of the period that we were covering which is about 1970 to 99, I came out in 1990 so I missed a lot of it. And it was invisible to me, the whole lesbian culture, completely invisible to me. Turned out half my friends were lesbian and I didn’t know it.” - Rose Norman For this bonus episode we talked to Rose Norman, the editor of the Souther

Final Episode: What does the word lesbian mean to you?

Apr 10 2018 57 mins

“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 Sel

Episode 24: Dalena Hunter

Mar 21 2018 23 mins

“Cultures of dissemblance refers to a culture of practice within African American communities, specifically that black women practice. It’s about dissembling– hiding or shielding what your own interior feelings are, your own personal perspectives, when you are interacting specifically within a white atmosphere.” - Dalena Hunter For episode 24 we talked to Dalena Hunter. a

Episode 23: Azra Pundsack and Linds Tattersall

Mar 07 2018 27 mins

“To see her here now with us in this space of joy and laughter… It really worked for her life. It was exactly what she needed and she’s known that all along which I thought was so special. I don’t think you see that in many lives: people who have this core sense of truth and then can follow it through anything.” - Linds Tattersall For episode 23 we talked to Azra Poe an

Episode 22: Lena Bielska and Liliana Piskorska

Feb 23 2018 28 mins

“Something broke down a few years ago and we moved to really hard and confusing times. We are still in the EU and we are still a democratic country but at some point everything started collapsing.” - Lena Bielska For episode 22 we talked to Lena Bielska and Liliana Piskorska about their new project called Lesbian Herstory Project in Poland implemented by their Herstory Foundat