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sapphic art because i said so

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i don’t post a lot of my face here, but i got gay married and it was the best day of my life and i just had to share 💕

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Community Update!

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Can you

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“Typing…”

oil on canvas

ORIGINAL AVAILABLE

to inquire about original: email inquiries@halietorris.com 📧

Halie Torris Fine Art

PRINTS AVAILABLE:

giclee paper or canvas

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Stormé DeLarverie in the Stonewall Veterans Car at the New York City Gay Pride Parade, June 25, 1995, by Morgan Gwenwald

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in honor of valentine season, any gift message submitted with your order via my shop will be handwritten onto a lovely little lace heart. :) send a love note to your sweetie! valentine’s day shouldn’t be any harder than it already is for long distance lovers….. 💌

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babe wake up warrior nun is back

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epic wife moment

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Happy lesbian visibility week 🥰🌈

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Lesbian Nonfiction

200 books about lesbians and female homosexuality: histories, memoirs, biographies, essays, and more

History

– The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Renée Vivien by Karla Jay – Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger – Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality, 850-1780 A.D. by Samar Habib – Awfully Devoted Women: Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65 by Cameron Duder – Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall by Marie Cartier – Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England by Sharon Marcus – Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy – Britannia’s Glory: A History of Twentieth-Century Lesbians by Emily Hamer – Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves – Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbians During the Third Reich by Claudia Schoppmann – Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Birth of the Lesbian Rights Movement by Marcia M. Gallo – The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China by Tze-Lan D. Sang – Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures by Bonnie Zimmerman – Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture by Laura Doan – Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations by Samar Habib – The Girls Next Door: Into the Heart of Lesbian America by Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt – Her Husband Was a Woman!: Women’s Gender-Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture by Alison Oram – Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928 by Martha Vicinus – A Lesbian History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Women Since 1500 by Rebecca Jennings – The Lesbian History Sourcebook: Love and Sex Between Women in Britain from 1780 to 1970 by Alison Oram – Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post/Socialism and Gendered Sexualities by Francesca Stella – Lesbian Origins by Susan Cavin – The Lesbian Premodern by Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer, and Diane Watt – Lesbians in Early Modern Spain by Sherry Velasco – The Lives of Lesbian Elders: Looking Back, Looking Forward by D. Merilee Clunis – Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism by Bernadette J. Brooten – Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community Across Canada, 1964-84 by Liz Millward – Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History, 1840-1985 by Lesbian History Group – Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman – Paris was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank by Andrea Weiss – Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801 by Emma Donoghue – The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England by Valerie Traub – Sakhiyani: Lesbian Desire in Ancient and Modern India by Giti Thadani – Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages by Francesca Canadé Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn – Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women by Leila J. Rupp – Scotch Verdict by Lillian Faderman – The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830 by Susan S. Lanser – Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes by Lisa L. Moore – Spinsters and Lesbians: Independent Womanhood in the United States by Trisha Franzen – Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman – To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America by Lillian Faderman – Tomboys and Bachelor Girls: A Lesbian History of Post-War Britain 1945-71 by Rebecca Jennings – Unnamed Desires: A Sydney Lesbian History by Rebecca Jennings – Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, and Art: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks by Diana Souhami – Women Like Us by Suzanne Neild

Biography and Memoir

– Active Voice The Comic Collection: The Real Life Adventures of an Asian-American, Lesbian, Feminist, Activist and Her Friends! by P. Kristen Enos – Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel – The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein – Barbara Gittings: Gay Pioneer by Tracy Baim – Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Revolution by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa – Black Bull, Ancestors, and Me: My Life as a Lesbian Sangoma by Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde – Black Lesbian in White America by Anita Cornwell – Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu – Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger by Kelly J. Cogswell – Eight Bullets: One Woman’s Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence by Claudia Brenner – Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast by Megan Marshall – Elsa: I Come With My Songs by Elsa Gidlow – Facing the Music: My Story by Jennifer Knapp – Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel – Gluck: 1895-1978 : Her Biography by Diana Souhami – Hear Me OUT!: A Dose of Lesbian Humor for The Whole Human Race by Laura Jimenez – Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir by Maggie Thrash – I’m Just a Person by Tig Notaro – In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court by Brittney Griner – Journey into My Underworld: An Autobiography of a Lesbian Journey by Jo Alexander – Kicking the Habit: A Lesbian Nun Story: An Autobiographical Novel by Jeanne Córdova – Lion Woman’s Legacy: An Armenian-American Memoir by Arlene Voski Avakian – My Butch Career: A Memoir by Esther Newton – My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata – Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer by Chely Wright – Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir by Lillian Faderman – Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe L. Moraga – Once Upon a Convent: A Memoir of a Lesbian Nun by Orice Klaas – The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin – Prairie Silence: A Memoir by Melanie Hoffert – Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares by Carmen L. Oliveira – Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey by Jackie Kay – Riding Fury Home: A Memoir by Chana Wilson – The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister by Anne Lister – Seriously…I’m Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres – Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster by Joanne Passet – Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia’s Sappho by Diana Lewis Burgin – A Spanner in the Works: The Extraordinary Story of Alice Anderson and Australia’s Only All-Girl Garage by Loretta Smith – Spinning by Tillie Walden – Spit and Passion by Cristy C. Road – Straight Walk: A Supermodel’s Journey to Finding Her Truth by Patricia Velásquez – Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation by Karla Jay – Tea Leaves: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters by Janet Mason – The Trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami – The Truth Is…: My Life in Love and Music by Melissa Etheridge – Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison – When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love and Revolution by Jeanne Córdova – Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson – A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir by Edie Windsor – Women Prefer Women by Elula Perrin – Y si quieres saber de mi pasado by Chavela Vargas – You Can’t Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties by Carol E. Anderson

Culture and Everyday Life

– Another Mother Tongue by Judy Grahn – The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture by Terry Castle – Cats (And Their Dykes): An Anthology by Irene Reti – Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life by Denise Tse-Shang Tang – The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture by Bonnie J. Morris – Eden Built by Eves: The Culture of Women’s Music Festivals by Bonnie J. Morris – Emerging Lesbian Voices from Japan by Sharon Chalmers – Faces and Phases by Zanele Muholi – Female Masculinity by J. Jack Halberstam – Garden Variety Dykes: Lesbian Traditions in Gardening by Irene Reti – Latina Lesbian Writers and Artists by Maria Dolores Costa – Lesbian Art: An Encounter with Power by Elizabeth Ashburn – Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History by Harmony Hammond – Lesbian Communities: Festivals, RVs, and the Internet by Esther D. Rothblum – Lesbian Passion: Loving Ourselves and Each Other by JoAnn Loulan – A Lesbian Photo Album: The Lives of Seven Lesbian Feminists by Cathy Cade – Lesbian Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand by Alison Laurie – Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Unprivileged India by Maya Sharma – The New Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book by Ginny Vida – Out and About: Sydney’s Lesbian Social Scene, 1960s-1980s by Rebecca Jennings – The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader by Joan Nestle – Witches Heal: Lesbian Herbal Self-Sufficiency by Billie Potts – Women in Love: Portraits of Lesbian Mothers & Their Families by Barbara Seyda

Literature and Media

– Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary by Fran Martin – Chinese Lesbian Cinema: Mirror Rubbing, Lala, and Les by Liang Shi – Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present by Lillian Faderman – Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama by Denise Walen – Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures by Sahar Amer – Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel by Lisa L. Moore – The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica: 1920-1940 by Victoria A. Brownworth – Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identities and Cultural Space by Sally R. Munt – Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue – Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France by Nicole Albert – Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho by Jane McIntosh Snyder – Lesbian Detective Fiction: Woman as Author, Subject and Reader by Phyllis M. Betz – The Lesbian Fantastic by Phyllis M. Betz – The Lesbian in Literature: A Bibliography by Barbara Grier – Lesbian Menace by Sherrie A. Inness – Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels, 1950-1965 by Katherine V. Forrest – Lesbian Romance Novels: A History and Critical Analysis by Phyllis M. Betz – Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions by Karla Jay and Joanne Glasgow – Lesbian Voices from Latin America by Elena M. Martinez – The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall by Terry Castle – New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings by Sally R. Munt – Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition by Rebecca T. Alpert – Out on the Shelves: Lesbian Books Into Libraries by Jane Allen – The Outside Thing: Modernist Lesbian Romance by Hannah Roche – Performing La Mestiza: Textual Representations of Lesbians of Color and the Negotiation of Identities by Ellen Gil-Gomez – The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989 by Bonnie Zimmerman – Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714 by Harriette Andreadis – Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969 by Jaye Zimet – (Un)Familiar Femininities: Studies in Contemporary Lesbian South Asian Texts by Aneeta Rajendran – Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in the Cinema by Andrea Weiss – What Lesbians Do In Books by Elaine Hobby and Chris White – With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians by Catriona Rueda Esquibel

Feminism and Academia

– All the Rage: Reasserting Radical Lesbian Feminism by Lynne Harne and Elaine Miller – Brazen Hussies: A Herstory of Radical Activism in the Women’s Liberation Movement in Victoria 1970–1979 by Jean Taylor – Country Lesbians: The Story of the WomanShare Collective by Sue Deevy – Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes by Irena Klepfisz – The House That Jill Built: A Lesbian Nation in Formation by Becki Ross – Lesbian Feminism in Turn-of-the-Century Germany by Lillian Faderman and Brigitte Eriksson – The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs by Estelle B. Freedman, Barbara C. Gelpi, and Susan L. Johnson – Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures by Jeffner Allen – Lesbian Philosophy: Explorations by Jeffner Allen – The Lesbian Postmodern by Laura Doan – The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon by Jaime Harker – Lesbian/Woman by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon – Lesbians Ignite!: In Victoria in the 1990s by Jean Taylor – Lesbians in Academia: Degrees of Freedom by Beth Mintz and Esther D. Rothblum – Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed – Love & Politics: Radical Feminist & Lesbian Theories by Carol Anne Douglas – The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century by Bonnie Zimmerman – A Restricted Country by Joan Nestle – Sappho Was a Right-On Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism by Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love – Separatism and Women’s Community by Dana R. Shugar – Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz: Selected Works by Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz – Stroppy Dykes: Radical Lesbian Feminist Activism in Victoria During the 1980s by Jean Taylor – This Is What Lesbian Looks Like: Dyke Activists Take on the 21st Century by Kris Kleindienst – The Trouble With Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith by Irshad Manji – Unleashing Feminism: A Critique of Lesbian Sadomasochism in the Gay Nineties by Irene Reti – Volcanoes and Pearl Divers: Essays in Lesbian Feminist Studies by Suzanne Raitt

Anthologies: Lives and Relationships

– Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing by Catherine E. McKinley – Beginnings: Lesbians Talk About the First Time They Met Their Long-Term Partner by Lindsey Elder – Between the Lines: An Anthology by Pacific-Asian Lesbians of Santa Cruz, California by Cristy Chung – Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About by Carla Trujillo – Compañeras: Latina Lesbians: An Anthology by Juanita Ramos – Does Your Mama Know? : An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories by Lisa C. Moore – Dyke Life: From Growing Up to Growing Old, a Celebration of the Lesbian Experience by Karla Jay – The Exploding Frangipani: Lesbian Writing from Australia and New Zealand by Cathie Dunsford – Facing the Mirror: Lesbian Writing from India by Ashwini Sukthankar – First Bloom: Stories of Blossoming Black Lesbian Love by Saydeah E. Howard – Happy Endings: Lesbian Writers Talk About Their Lives and Work by Kate Brandt – Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence by Rosemary Curb and Nancy Manahan – Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation by Rebecca T. Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell, and Shirley Idelson – Lesbian Self-Writing: The Embodiment of Experience by Carol Lynda Hall – Lesbians Speak Out by Carol Wilson – Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology by Evelyn Torton Beck – Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology by Makeda Silvera – Reclaiming the L-Word: Sappho’s Daughters Out in Africa by Alleyn Diesel – Restricted Access: Lesbians on Disability by Victoria A. Brownworth and Susan Raffo – Talking Black: African, Caribbean, and Asian Lesbians Speak Out by Valerie Mason-John – They Will Know Me By My Teeth: Stories and Poems of Lesbian Struggle, Celebration, And Survival by Elana Dykewomon – Write from the Heart: Lesbian Healing from Heartache by Anita L. Pace

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Les sphinx au dictionnaire   -   Francine van Hove

French b.1942-

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hello fellow autistic lesbians 🌈💜

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Mary Oliver, I Have Just Said Molly Malone Cook and Mary Oliver, from Our World

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Étienne Tournès – Intimacy (1901)

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hi! you post some of my fav resource/ref posts, and I was wondering if you had any suggestions of resources on lesbians/homosexuality? most everything that I'm finding while searching myself is pretty watered down libfem garbage that is just not helpful at all. thanks in advance and much love!

i only put books i own for the most part (though i haven’t read all of them) on this list, but hopefully it’s helpful! i think all of these can easily be purchased on amazon, but i would recommend checking your library and third-party sellers first.

general:

another mother tongue: gay words, gay worlds by judy grahn

baby, you are my religion: women, gay bars, and theology before stonewall by marie cartier

changing our minds: lesbian feminism and psychology by celia kitzinger

lesbian culture, an anthology: the lives, work, ideas, art and visions of lesbians past and present; edited by julia penelope and susan wolfe

the celluloid closet: homosexuality in movies by vito russo

the disappearing l: erasure of lesbian spaces and culture by bonnie j. morris

the highest apple: sappho and the lesbian poetic tradition by judy grahn

the lesbian fantastic: a critical study of science fiction, fantasy, paranormal and gothic writings by phyllis m. betz

the lesbian menace: ideology, identity, and the representation of lesbian life by sherrie a. inness

vampires and violets: lesbians in the cinema by andrea weiss

let’s get global:

between women: friendship, desire, and marriage in victorian england by sharon marcus

boots of leather, slippers of gold: the history of a lesbian community by elizabeth lapovsky kennedy and madeline d. davis

charity and sylvia: a same-sex marriage in early america by rachel hope cleves

immodest acts: the life of a lesbian nun in renaissance italy by judith c. brown

lesbian decadence: representations in art and literature of fin-de-siècle france by nicole g. albert, tr. nancy erber and william peniston

lesbian nuns: breaking silence; edited by rosemary curb and nancy manahan

love between women: early christian responses to female homoeroticism by bernadette j. brooten

loving women: being lesbian in unprivileged india by maya sharma

odd girls and twilight lovers: a history of lesbian life in 20th-century america by lillian faderman

passions between women by emma donoghue

sakhiyani: lesbian desire in ancient and modern india by giti thadani

sapphistries: a global history of love between women by leila j. rupp

surpassing the love of men: romantic friendship and love between women from the renaissance to the present by lillian faderman

the sexuality of history: modernity and the sapphic, 1565-1830 by susan s lanser

to believe in women: what lesbians have done for america-a history by lillian faderman

wayward lives, beautiful experiments: intimate histories of riotous black girls, trouble women, and queer radicals by saidiya v. hartman

women’s sexualities and masculinities in a globalizing asia; edited by saskia e. wieringa, evelyn blackwood, and abha bhaiya

unspeakable love: gay and lesbian life in the middle east by brian whitaker

(auto)biographical:

dispatches from lesbian america: 45 short stories and memoirs by lesbian writers; edited by xequina maria berber, giovanna capone, and cheela romaine smith

fun home: a family tragicomic by alison bechdel

in the dream house by carmen maria machado (i think machado identifies as queer but she’s married to a woman and this is a book about her experiences being in an abusive lesbian relationship, so it counts)

my lesbian experience with loneliness by nagata kabi (a warning, this novel involves a woman’s experience with a lesbian escort)

rubyfruit jungle by rita mae brown

sister love: the letters of audre lorde and pat parker, 1974-1989 by audre lorde and pat parker

the secret diaries of miss anne lister: volume 1: i know my own heart by anne lister

the secret diaries of miss anne lister: volume 2: no priest but love by anne lister

vita and virginia: the lives and loves of virginia woolf and vita sackville-west by sarah gristwood

zami: a new spelling of my name by audre lorde

fiction, poetry, and plays: (this list is lacking because i’m not combing through every single kindle book mostly because my computer can’t handle it, so i only put books i know are written by/about/for lesbians)

bleeding earth by kaitlin ward

carmilla by joseph sheridan le fanu

desert of the heart by jane rule

disobedience by naomi alderman

fingersmith by sarah waters

fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe by fannie flagg

her body and other parties by carmen maria machado

living as a lesbian by cheryl clarke

milk and honey: a celebration of jewish lesbian poetry; julie r enszer

new and selected poems: volume one by mary oliver

new and selected poems: volume two by mary oliver

orlando: a biography by virginia woolf

oranges are not the only fruit by jeanette winterson

patience and sarah by alma routsong

sappho in love: a play in two acts by carolyn gage

skin by kathe koja

stigmata: a tragedy in three acts by carolyn gage

stone butch blues by leslie feinberg

tender buttons by gertrude stein

the color purple by alice walker

the complete works of pat parker by pat parker 

the price of salt by patricia highsmith

the queen of swords by judy grahn

the queen of wands by judy grahn

the well of loneliness by radclyffe hall

the work of a common woman by judy grahn

the second coming of joan of arc and selected plays by carolyn gage

the spindle and other lesbian fairy tales by carolyn gage

tipping the velvet by sarah waters

west wind by mary oliver

when i arrived at the castle by emily carroll

winter hours by mary oliver

maybe not quite what you were looking for:

a passion for friends: towards a philosophy of female affection by janice g. raymond (i know it’s controversial but i like the lesbian continuum theory, and this plays right into it)

compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence by adrienne rich (the original, see above)

women who become men: albanian sworn virgins by antonia young

voices from the land; written by michigan womyn’s music festival community

other recommendations are very welcome!