The rubric “lesbian,” too, conjures something quite other than intrafemale eroticism: not a form of desire but a strategy toward an abolitionist end

lesbianism is a war, but in the latter texts, it can sometimes also be a gathering, a near-utopian togetherness—a picnic.

when decolonial scholars inaugurate comradely critiques of Wittig’s work regarding her inattention to questions of coloniality and racialization. On this front we have lately seen critical, creative efforts to combine her abolitionist heuristics with other, race-critical feminist materialisms that are attentive to processes of “ungendering” and... See more