Happy Lesbian Visibility Day!
Lesbian Visibility Day began in the UK. This photo of me and Carol was taken at the first UK Lesbian Conference, April 1981, almost exactly 40 years ago.
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Music of early 1981: what I was listening to
This weekend the Guardian did a 6-page spread on Visible Girls: Revisited, the retrospective-and-redo of the famous 1981 series. Here’s a playlist of the music I was listening to when that original photo was taken.
Read moreSave the date, 14th April, London
Anyone who’s in London between 14 April and 27 May can see a photo of me taken in 1981 by Anita Corbin.
Read moreDo you recognise me 35 years ago?
A photo of me taken when I was 20 is in the news again…
Read moreGirls of lost subcultures
I’m apparently one of the “girls from lost subcultures” in Visible Girls, an exhibit by photographer Anita Corbin. Shot in 1981 (!) and now on exhibit in London.
Read moreAmmonite and Janes Plane
Yesterday was International Women’s Day. Which also happens to be the anniversary of the very first performance of my long-ago band, Janes…
Read moreFriday audio: Bird of the Fragile Spirit
This is a melancholy song, drenched in nostalgia. I wrote the original lyrics when I was 17 at the same time as…
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