WINNER, "BEST QUEER NARRATIVE," BEYOND THE CURVE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2020
WINNER, "BEST QUEER NARRATIVE," BEYOND THE CURVE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2020
After my first book (Radical Feminism, Writing, and Critical Agency), I wanted to write a book about the Furies and their newspaper. I had read the Furies newspaper in 1984, when I first came out. It was formative for me, and I wanted to do the research and write a monograph.
I ended up writing several other books instead, and had a sort of writer's block about the Furies project. Then it occurred to me: they're out there, still. I could talk with them. And so I did.
During that long writer's block, I read a lot. I traveled to Duke University to explore the holdings of the Sallie Bingham special collections. There's a complete run of the Furies newspaper there, annotated by readers 50 years ago. The collection lives online here. I also went to the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn to look at its collection. I presented on the Furies at a number of conferences. I just couldn't do the big project until the idea of documentary storytelling hit me.
I started my interviews in 2017, with a trip to Manhattan to talk with Charlotte Bunch and Nancy Myron. Over the next three years, I traveled to Columbus, Cupertino, Oakland, Santa Fe, Studio City, Afton, and Washington, D.C. with my recording gear and sometimes an assistant.
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