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Kaye Moseley is an artist and has been active in lesbian communities in Melbourne since 1973 when she attended the first National Lesbian Conference in Australia. She designed the Spinifex logo and inaugurated the annual Satin and Silk Ball for Lesbians which ran for over one and a half decades in Melbourne.
Kaye will be launching Susan Hawthorne’s new book Lesbian: Politics, Culture, Existence. A history of feminist and lesbian thinking from the 1970s to the present, Susan Hawthorne’s essays on lesbian culture and politics take the reader on a journey through the concerns of radical feminists engaged in the Women’s Liberation Movement. Not only does she trace the experiments of lesbians creating a vibrant woman-loving culture, but she also traces the backlash against lesbians and a history of violence perpetrated by the state, corporations and individual men.
The essays span reflections on lesbian literature and the development of lesbian culture, including the politics of physical expression in circus. Her investigations include lesbian refugees, lesbian economics, violation of lesbian human rights and the impact of the transgender industrial complex on the existence of lesbians as a political force.