Susan Hawthorne
Dr Susan Hawthorne has been a lesbian feminist activist for more than 40 years and author of fourteen books. Born in Australia, she writes poetry, fiction, non-fiction and performance scripts. For ten years she was an aerialist in two women’s circuses. With Renate Klein she co-founded the radical feminist press Spinifex 26 years ago. Three of her non-fiction books have been published in German, including Biblidiversität: Manifest für unhabhängiges Publizieren (2017). Her most recent book is Dark Matters: A novel (2017). Dark Matters traces the story of Kate who is arrested and tortured for her lesbian activism.
My Sessions
Lesbian imagination: production, publication and sharing of lesbian culture
Hilary McCollum
Susan Hawthorne
Renate Klein
Natasa Velikonja
Nina Dragičević
Karin Rick
The session purpose is to draw attention to the importance of publication and production of lesbian content in the community and beyond.Sharing of lesbian culture is an important issue for the visibility of the community and for the lesbian social movement as well. Figures and identities presented in different publications represent an artistic movement against […]