Phyllis Christopher: A Lesbian Aesthetic

Dark Room by Phyllis Christopher gathers over fifteen years of personal archives. Between 1988 and 2013, the American photographer captured the lives and passions of a San Francisco group of lesbians searching of freedom. This is an inspiriting look at an era of struggle and lightheartedness.

It’s late 1980s, San Francisco: Like every morning, Susie Bright, feminist activist and editor of the lesbian magazine On Our Back, goes to the post office to pick up her mail. In between spam and submissions to her magazine, a brown padded envelope ...

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