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The Poetic & Revolutionary Love Life of Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas

The Poetic & Revolutionary Love Life of Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas

by Lesley Graydon | Love, Relationships

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) and Alice B. Toklas (April 30, 1877 – March 7, 1967) met on the first day Toklas arrived in Paris, in 1907. Toklas moved into Stein’s residence in 1910 and they were life-long partners until Stein’s death....
Understanding & Defining Gender & Sexual Variancy

Understanding & Defining Gender & Sexual Variancy

by Lesley Graydon | Gender

On Gender… For the majority of people one’s gender is simple, clear, and defined: one is either a man or a woman. There is nothing complicated about it.   Our society has certain “womanly” or “manly” behaviours, traits, and...
A Short History of Sex & Sexuality … Retelling Truths

A Short History of Sex & Sexuality … Retelling Truths

by Lesley Graydon | Desire, Roles, Sex, Sexuality

“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings” (Shakespeare, Macbeth) To consider and be comfortable with authentic displays of variant genders and sexualities seems such a basic, healthy, productive, powerful, potentially opening and enlivening premise; yet,...
Switching 101

Switching 101

by Lesley Graydon | Critical Theory, Feminist Theory, Gender Theory, Identity, Queer Theory, Sexual Theory, Theory

What is Switching… To switch, and the process of engaging in the action of switching, can most broadly be described as dwelling in, and having the intention of, honoring, exploring, and sharing different, switchable aspects of a person: multiple or varied states...
Identity, The Mind & Love in Jeanette Winterson’s Powerbook

Identity, The Mind & Love in Jeanette Winterson’s Powerbook

by Lesley Graydon | Critical Theory, Feminist Theory, Gender Theory, Identity, Queer Theory, Sexual Theory, Theory

“You need a label. But I’m not a piece of furniture with the price on the back.” (Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook , 65). A facet at the heart of Jeanette Winterson’s The Powerbook is the freedom that comes when no identity is present, when identity is not...
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