Joan Nestle speaking in Ljubljana, Slovenia for Škuc LL
Born
(1940-05-12) May 12, 1940 (age 84)
Nationality
English
Alma mater
Martin Van Buren High School
Queens College, City University of New York
Joan Nestle (born May 12, 1940) is a Lambda Award winning writer and editor and a founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, which holds, among other things, everything she has ever written. She is openly lesbian and sees her work of archiving history as critical to her identity as "a woman, as a lesbian, and as a Jew."[1][2]
^"Jewish Women and GLBT Pride". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 21 August 2012. As a woman, as a lesbian, as a Jew, I know that much of what I call history others will not. But answering that challenge of exclusion is the work of a lifetime.
JoanNestle (born May 12, 1940) is a Lambda Award winning writer and editor and a founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, which holds, among other things...
She is best known for co-founding the Lesbian Herstory Archives with JoanNestle. Deborah Edel was born on June 23, 1944, to anthropologist May Mandelbaum...
than essential, "natural", or biological. The femme lesbian historian JoanNestle argues that femme and butch may be seen as distinct genders in and of...
organized a group to discuss sexism within that organization. Co-founders JoanNestle, Deborah Edel, Sahli Cavallo, Pamela Oline, and Julia Penelope Stanley...
York's Central Park where he shared the stage with Allen Ginsberg and JoanNestle. In 1994, Hay refused to participate in the official parade in New York...
the reading of novels as a way to understand that they are not alone." JoanNestle refers to lesbian pulp fiction as “survival literature.” Lesbian pulp...
Fantasy XIV (masters thesis). Concordia University. 2020, Riki Wilchins; JoanNestle; Clare Howell, GenderQueer-Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary, page...
Scarlet Woman and Dossie Easton in works edited by Patrick Califia, JoanNestle (The Persistent Desire), Leslea Newman (The Femme Mystique) Scarlet Woman...
white families, and retained this career for a long time. Hampton met JoanNestle at this time, the daughter of one of these families, and developed a...
and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture Winner 1988 JoanNestle A Restricted Country Winner Randy Shilts And the Band Played On: Politics...
implied that homosexuals had as much reason to be disaffected as they." JoanNestle co-founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives in 1974 and credits "its creation...
culture made lesbians visible for the first time." Femme lesbian scholar JoanNestle describes the femme lesbian identity as being underrepresented in historical...
Women 3 : An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction, edited by JoanNestle and Naomi Holoch. Plume, 1996. ISBN 0-452-27661-6 They have also contributed...
ISBN 978-0-9937935-1-6 GenderQueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary (Alyson), (JoanNestle, Clair Howell Co-Editors) 2002 ISBN 978-1-55583-730-3 "Pregnant males...
Archives opened to the public in the New York apartment of lesbian couple JoanNestle and Deborah Edel; it has the world's largest collection of materials...
catamites and kings: Reflections on butch, gender, and boundaries", in JoanNestle (Ed). The Persistent Desire. A Femme-Butch-Reader. Boston: Alyson. 466...
activist and leader of the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis JoanNestle, writer and founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, writes that going...
and the Trustee Award in 2014 in addition to her four Humor awards. JoanNestle won the Lesbian Studies award for A Fragile Union in 1999 in addition...
Lorde 1993 Samuel R. Delany 1994 Judy Grahn 1995 Jonathan Ned Katz 1996 JoanNestle 1997 Armistead Maupin 1998 M. E. Kerr 1999 John Rechy 2000 Doris Grumbach...
Poet, Biochemist, Veteran Bruce Bueno de Mesquita - Political Scientist JoanNestle - Author Richard Ofshe - Sociologist Jim Osman - Sculptor Claude V. Palisca...
Duberman, Bertha Harris, Karla Jay, Jonathan Dunn-Rankin, John D'Emilio, JoanNestle, Jonathan Ned Katz, Barbara Gittings, George Whitmore, Andrea Dworkin...
on Women: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction, edited by JoanNestle (1990) ISBN 9780452263888 High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings...
Gay? Herbert Muschamp (1947–2007), New York Times architecture critic JoanNestle, writer, editor and activist, founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives...
California, Berkeley. Nestle has listed Wendell Berry, Frances Moore Lappé, Joan Gussow, and Michael Jacobson as people who inspired her. Nestle undertook postdoctoral...
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