Lesbian Feminism

This chapter argues for a revival of lesbian feminism precisely given how lesbian feminism makes feminism into a life question. It reflects on how lesbians come up against walls even when we appear to have been included by institutions such as marriage. It reflects on how lesbian feminism comes out of the struggle for an ordinary life, and how we can think of lesbian feminism as a willfulness archive assembled from the shattered pieces left behind from that struggle. The chapter offers a way of thinking of lesbian feminism as the building of a fragile shelter. It suggests that this fragility can be affirmed—as enabling movement, exposure, and survival.