Return to the literary struggle: 5 feminist and LGBT nuggets not to be missed

Au Bonheur des Dames is a small feminist and LGBT paradise in Toulouse. To present the concept of their library, the managers Fatima and Marianne explain:

” We are a lesbian couple. When you enter our bookstore, it is clear: you are not in a classic bookstore, with a small feminist department. Here, feminism and LGBT visibility are everywhere. And even if there are books without necessarily a strong feminist commitment, we make sure the authors are women. ”

In this literary season, Lose opens his series of articles dedicated to advice from female booksellers with the favorites of Fatima and Marianne.

The Evaporates, Fanny Chiarello and Wendy Delorme

“ The evaporatedit’s a book written by four hands by Fanny Chiarello and Wendy Delorme. Of them splendid scriptures that mix one and the other, fit together, for our greatest happiness.

Let’s find out this lesbian universe in which we like, delight, vibrate and walk according to the complex heroines and their simple stories. “

Naive Adultery, or the Study of a Passion, by Natalie Clifford Barney

Natalie Clifford Barney is an American writer who lived in the 20th century. She is known for her poems, memoirs and epigrams of her. She is also known to be a notorious and alleged lesbianwho had many lovers.

In this novel, he talks about his lovers very firmly. This is a very modern novel which fearlessly describes the carnal and immodest love between two women. Allows to affirm 20th century lesbianism even when it was repressed by society. It is a very jubilant novel, in which the author tells how free she is to experience adultery and lesbian love for all to see.

Difficult women, Roxane Gay

Rossane Gay is Fat lesbian african american author to which we owe in particular bad feministan important test of the intersectional thinking. He just posted Difficult womena collection of short stories, which is quite new to her.

Everything is in the title: the book tells all the difficulties that women encounter in their life, especially in their couple. Even though she is a lesbian, it is a very non-lesbian collection. There are some winks, let’s say, but that’s not the majority. On the back it says ” Words of women. Stories sharp and cruel like life “. And that’s right!

Who knows, Pauline Delabroy-Allard

After Ça tells Sarah, Pauline Delabroy-Allard signs her second novel, Qui Sait. She tells her story about her and she says she never really settled down the question of her origins before she was pregnant. Being pregnant brings up all the questions about where she comes from and who she is. In particular, he notices that on her identity card there are three names, one of which the name of a man.

He describes his entire adventure in search of his origins, interrogation, meeting with his family, knowing that all this creates confusion even in his couple. He is very fluid, pleasant to read. Everyone can find their way there. It is a graceful hymn to literature and imagination, but also to the daily life of a lesbian couple addressing issues raised by motherhood.

Fem, Joan Nestlé

Fem is a book by Joan Nestlé. This is the first French translation of this book written by this declared fem lesbian activist [personne avec une expression de genre très féminine, ndlr] who tells his story. It’s a bit disconcerting because it’s both an essay but it’s interspersed with scenes of encounters with other women. It is very erotic.

But it is also an essay that speaks of the political dimension, of the visibility of the butches. We get to better understand what butch e were relationships between butchers and women. It is not at all the reproduction of heterosexual relationshipsbut really a political statementa way of being visible, which unfortunately also explains all the violence they suffered at that time in the United States.

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