5/26/2023 0 Comments Empathy by Sarah Schulman![]() ![]() ![]() I found scant consolation in scandalous footnotes about Vita Sackville West and Virginia Woolf. Being a lesbian was the inability to have a vaginal orgasm and be a Real Woman. Here’s what I found out about being queer from these Freud-inflected texts: being a lesbian was juvenile. ![]() I searched yellowed index cards (index cards!) for any mention of homosexuality, looked desperately for all that stuff that dares not speak its name in the subtext of modernist novel after modernist novel. I was one of the last generation of queer teen girls doomed to library lesbianism. from “What I Learned About Empathy” by Sarah Schulman, in the Arsenal Pulp edition of Empathy “Most gay people find out about gay things from the mainstream media.” ![]()
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