by Jeanne Vaccaro

About Jeanne Vaccaro

Jeanne Vaccaro (she/her) is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies and in the ONE Archives at the University of Southern California. She is the author of “Canonical Undoings: Notes on Trans Art and Archives” in Trap Door: Trans Visibility and the Politics of Representation.

Lesbian

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“Lesbians are not women,” declared lesbian feminist theorist Monique Wittig (1980, 111). Wittig’s statement captures a persistent problem that the figure of the lesbian illuminates, bringing to light the frictions between sex, gender, and sexuality as well as nature, culture, and embodiment. If lesbians are not women, what on earth are they?