The Feminist Lecture Program are excited to announce a brand new collaboration with the Vagina Museum! The same amazing online weekly feminist content you expect from us, now hosted by the world’s only bricks and mortar Vagina Museum!
Eleanor is no stranger to FLP, so we’re desperately looking forward to what we know will be an amazing new lecture. This time, join her as she unpicks the history and significance of lesbian fashion over the last 200 years. This is a winding story - one that can’t be easily pinned down. So much of lesbian history has been deliberately forgotten or misremembered, but placing a microscope over the role of clothing and self-expression in these communities might just help breathe some life back into it!
During the session, we will hop from Anne Lister, a lesbian heiress in the early 19th century, to the lesbian activist group ‘Lavender Menace’ in the 1970s, taking some pit stops along the route and after. Eleanor will set the scene for a revival of lesbian fashion history, leading us into discussions around what this can teach us – whether that be in the context of broader fashion history, LGBTQ+ history, or the situation of lesbians today. Through artefacts of paintings and photographs, letters and diaries, we will gain a closer insight into lesbian fashion, and how these sources played an important role both in their own time, as well as today!
Crucially, this lecture is built upon foundations of inclusivity, this time taking a moment to specifically focus on lesbian (fashion) history. Biphobia or Transphobia has no place within this discussion and will not be tolerated.
ABOUT OUR LECTURER
Eleanor Medhurst is an independent lesbian fashion historian and the author of Dressing Dykes, an online blog about lesbian fashion history. She has degrees in design and fashion history at BA and MA level from the University of Brighton, and has also worked towards the sharing of queer histories through her involvement with Queer Looks and Queer the Pier, exhibitions at Brighton Museum. Her first book, ‘Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion’, is out in June.
INSTAGRAM: @dressingdykes
TIKTOK: @elliemedhurst
X: @EleanorMedhurst
www.dressingdykes.com
UPCOMING SESSIONS WITH THE FEMINIST LECTURE PROGRAM
Friday 26th January
Luisa Maria MacCormack
Hysterical Bodies: Gender, Medicine and Wandering Uteruses
Monday 29th January
Alekzsandra Rokvity
Endometriosis Activism: Making the Invisible Visible
Monday 5th February
Eleanor Medhurst
Dressing Dykes: A History of Lesbian Fashion
Monday 12th February
Parumveer Walia
Exploring the the Abject: Excreta, Feminism and Performativity in Art History
Monday 19th February
Holly Isard and Jo Harrison
Breastfeeding as Work: The Contradictions of Breastfeeding Under Capitalism
Monday 26th February
Sophie Paul
READING MAKES ME HORNY: Feminist Publishing and Masturbatory Reading
And much more to come…
RECORDING
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PAY WHAT YOU CAN
Everyone is welcome to join this Pay-What-You-Can class. We suggest a donation of £20, however, we understand that may not be possible for everybody. Please be honest and pay what you can afford so that we can continue to offer our sessions on a donation basis.
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We're really looking forward to you joining us.