#Lucy Jane Bledsoe

[biandlesbianliterature]

Unsurprisingly, this isn’t a light read. It feels like an open wound: Delia especially is still hurting so much and hasn’t gotten closure on her trauma in going through conversion therapy. Eventually, though, we do see her begin to work through it, accompanied by the glimpses of the lives of the teenage girls she’s coaching. If you like to read character studies and quiet stories about working through trauma—and trying to lead a high school girls’ basketball team to glory, because that really is a big focus—I highly recommend this one. It’s a thoughtful, sometimes painful, but effective narrative, and it’s one that’s interesting to read after books like The Miseducation of Cameron Post, because this looks at not just the immediate horror, but the aftermath of being taught to hate yourself as a young person.

The Aftermath of Gay Conversion Camp: Tell the Rest by Lucy Jane Bledsoe was reviewed at the Lesbrary.

#Lucy Jane Bledsoe #queer books #sapphic books #lgbtq books #lesbian books #conversion camps #conversion therapy #homophobia #reviews #literary fiction #fiction #basketball #small towns #rural #sports

[qbdatabase]

Tell the Rest by Lucy Jane Bledsoe Delia and Ernest met as teens at Celebration Camp, a church-supported conversion therapy program—a dubious, unscientific Christian practice meant to “change” a person’s sexuality. After witnessing a close friend suffer a devastating tragedy in the hands of the camp “counselors,” they escaped in the night, only to take separate roads to their distant homes.

View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

#Tell the Rest #Lucy Jane Bledsoe #bookblr #black rep #daily book #gay #lesbian #mental health rep #mlm #queer rep #wlw #adult books #basketball #female protagonist #lgbtqia #male protagonist #queer books #sports #thriller

[persephones-stenographer]

You say you have lost all recollection of it, remember... You say there are no words to describe this time, you say it does not exist. But remember. Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent.

Lucy Jane Bledsoe - A Thin Bright Line

#quotes #book quotes #lucy jane bledsoe #a thin bright line

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Do you have any recs for fiction with a main cast of butch women? Doesn't necessarily have to be butch4butch in a romantic sense, but anything that depicts the human relationships between us. I feel like that's so rare, and it drives me crazy as someone who personally NEEDS other butch women in her life to feel sane and normal. I hate that most fiction treats us as male-adjacent stand-ins with femmes or as accessory side characters. I want to see us fleshed out for once.

I’m really sorry that there aren’t more stories easily accessible that have this kind of dynamic. I haven’t actually read all of these , so I can’t say if it really fits, but I’ll do my best to give you some recommendations! Hopefully you are able to find a couple in here ☺️ And definitely check the comments! There might be more suggestions there.

I went through my saved books and the ones I own to come up with this list.

I think older lesbian books in general would be a good starting ground! Especially from like 80s-early 2000s. While some of them might not necessarily use the word butch, they definitely have a lot more gnc women or just none feminine women in general.

- Leave A Light On For Me by Jean Swallows. I’m not too sure how many of the cast are butch, BUT, I do it it’s primarily about lesbian friendship.

- You’ve probably already heard of this one, but Dykes To Watch Out For is always a good one!

- A nonfiction rec would be : Tomboys Tales Of Dykes Derring-Do by Lynne Yamaguchi and Karen Barber.

- This book doesn’t delve into the relationship between butch lesbians, however, it does discuss in parts what you are talking about , from the perspective of a butch lesbian who lives on a farm, which is The Grass Widow by Nanci Little. It has a very beautiful seen between the two main characters discussing how she is still a woman.

- I didn’t know if this one really fit the mark, because I can’t actually remember if the other woman was butch or not (or considered more butch for the time ) but Stonehurst by Barbara Johnson has a section where a younger GNC lesbian gets sort of taken in by an older lesbian for safety and protection.

- I haven’t read it so I don’t know if she has relationships with other butch lesbians, but I do know she is a butch lesbian. Lilac Mines by Cheryl Klein.

- again I haven’t read this one, but given the time period and what it’s about I’m assuming the main character has friendship relations with the larger lesbian community: Shoulders by Georgia Cotrell.

- I started reading this one a while ago but sipped for some reason. I think I remember it being about a butch woman - but at the very least it’s about lesbian friendship: Working Parts by Lucy Jane Bledsoe.

- Untamed Desires : A Sydney Lesbian History by Rebecca Jennings. (I haven’t read this one either but I gave it a quick flick through right now and it seems like it could have what you are looking for)

- Missouri Vaun is a butch/gnc lesbian and all of her books have butch women in them. I can’t remember about their friendships much. But if you want a butch lesbian written from the perspective of one I would go with her!

- The Little Butch Book by Leslea Newman. A sweet little book fully dedicated to butch women!

- Rode Hard Put Away Wet has a butch x butch erotic short story in it. I would post it on here but I’m pretty sure tumblr would take it down right away.

I can’t really think of anymore right now. But I’ll reblog this again if anything comes up!

I’m sorry I wasn’t able to help more. And I’m sorry we are in a world that doesn’t provide you with the love, respect and fictional representation you deserve. I can only hope things get better and you are able to find many more wonderful butch lesbians in fiction 💕

Thank you for popping in! I hope you have a beautiful day ☺️💕💕

#asks #anon #answered

[dolls-and-cats]

1975

Oregon

"...when the classroom door flies open. A cheerleader frolics in. She searches the room, finds Steve, and pins a construction paper cut-out of a planet on the front of his shirt: Send the Vikings to Mars!

We both have our first games of the season today, the girls here at home and the boys away....

When I face forward again, Mr. Murray is standing in front of my desk. He hands me a lined index card on which he's scotch- taped a green lifesaver. A straight pin is threaded through the top of the index card so I can attach it to my blouse. Below the candy, he's written, in blue ballpoint ink, 'Win, Miss Carmichael.'

His eyes are even more twinkly than when Mort was taking on Descartes. He's so cool, a teacher who gets it. He's making fun of the cheerleader ritual, but at the same time, he's acknowledging that I also have a game today. ..."

No Stopping Us Now by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

This wonderfully written book is about the protagonist being a student athlete in a school district that dragged its feet about following the protections enshrined in Title IX. It's also about her identity as a woman in the 70s and coming to find her own voice. Although the book is listed as fiction, in the afterward, Bledsoe says "While pretty much everything in this story happened, I don't remember exact conversations, so I've fictionalized the dialogue and used my imagination to fill in my memories....

I would think that female athletes who have benefited from Title IX would enjoy this, which is why I've shown Maritza endorsing it. But the goddess has not endowed me with any athletic aptitude at all, and I still loved the book. It's also about learning how to find your voice, how to identify and stand up for fairness, how to be a good friend, how to see things from other people's point of view. I now want to read other books Lucy Jane Bledsoe has written.

#american girl dolls #dollblr #julie albright #maritza ochoa

[yourdailyqueer]

Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 1 February 1957

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Writer

#Lucy Jane Bledsoe #lesbianism #wlw #lgbt #lgbtq #female #lesbian #1957 #white #writer

[lgbtqreads]

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[a-wlw-reads]

A Thin Bright Line by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Do the wlw end up together : Yes

7/10

This book gets bonus points for being written by a lesbian woman about her real-life lesbian aunt. As Bledsoe explains in the forward, her aunt (also named Lucy) died while she was barely old enough to remember her. Researching her aunt years later, Bledsoe discovers that her aunt was revered for her work editing scientific reports on the project to drill the first complete ice core. For anyone wondering, this is still a technique we use to today to investigate what our planet’s climate was like millennia ago. This book is Bledsoe’s attempt to piece together what little information she does have about her aunt, with plenty of fabrication to make it just as compelling a read as any other historical novel. 

Lucy has just been left by her long term girlfriend when she’s approached by an odd-mannered man with a strange proposition: move to Chicago and work for the government. She takes him up on it and joins an odd crew of grammatically-challenged scientists and a very few female employees. She’s pretty quick to find close lesbian friends even while working in the government during the peak years of the Lavender Scare. When unmarked packages containing lesbian pulp fiction titles start appearing on her desk, she begins to think she might be the next one out the door. Because there are so many lesbian characters in this book it’s a really interesting look at the many ways individuals responded to the persecutions of the 1950s and ‘60s. Some crumple, others are so paranoid to hide to the detriment of their relationships, and some know exactly who they are and what they want. In general the people that Lucy meets are understanding, slowly learning to accept a woman editing their papers and pointing out mathematical errors and, for some of them, learning of and accepting the fact that she only loves women. My favorite part was after reading this novel, where Bledsoe goes through in much more detail about her process in finding out information about her aunt and where exactly the gaps that she filled were. I’d hope that the original Lucy Bledsoe would be happy that lesbians today are able to read her story and find some joy in her unwillingness to cave to a loveless marriage or a lie. 

#historical #lesbian #1950s #a thin bright line #lucy jane bledsoe

[prairielights]

LUCY JANE BLEDSOE

May 15, 2018 - 7:00pm Prairie Lights

Lucy Jane Bledsoe will read from her new novel, The Evolution of Love.

#Lucy Jane Bledsoe #fiction #prairie lights #Iowa City #books

[tachyonpub]

Meet Ellen Klages, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, and Meg Elison at June SF in SF

SF IN SF, in partnership with Tachyon Publications and the American Bookbinders Museum, welcomes the award-winning and 2018 Nebula nominee Ellen Klages, winner of Saturday Evening Post Fiction Award, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize Lucy Jane Bledsoe, and Philip K. Dick Award winner Meg Elison.

Ellen Klages (photo: Scott R. Kline), Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Nye Lyn Tho), and Meg Elison (Devin Cooper)

Each author will read from a selection of their work, followed by Q&A with the audience, moderated by Terry Bisson. Schmoozing with the authors and book signing follows the end of the discussion.

Sunday, June 10 Doors and cash bar open 6:00PM Event begins at 6:30 PM The American Bookbinders Museum 355 Clementina San Francisco, CA

$10 donation at the door (no one is turned away for lack of funds).

All donations benefit the American Bookbinders Museum

There will be an opportunity to have books signed at the end of the event. Books will be for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books, and attendees are welcome to bring books from home for signatures. There is no charge for autographs.

Podcasted by SOMA FM - SF’s internet radio station

For more info on WICKED WONDERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

#sf in sf #ellen klages #lucy jane bledsoe #meg ellison #the book of the unnamed midwife #wicked wonders #a thin bright line #american bookbinders museum #borderlands books #soma fm

[therumpus]

As far as my book went, even if I called it fiction, I didn’t feel comfortable making my aunt gay in this story if in fact she hadn’t been. I just about gave up. Her obscurity was a wall. No one really wanted to talk. Anyway, I questioned my motives. Was I trying to force my aunt into a life that didn’t fit, i.e. making her queer just because I was? This was the moment when an essay by Stanford historian Estelle Freedman became crucial. In her brilliant essay, called “The Burning of Letters Continues,” she makes the argument that when researching lesbian lives, the lack of evidence is in fact itself evidence. How, throughout history, lesbians have hidden their lives, burned their letters, to avoid detection. This essay rang so true for my research. Every single person I interviewed told me how funny, warm, friendly, and smart my aunt had been. Making me wonder, how could a person like that have no intimate life? The absence of any personal information was most intriguing.

THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW with Lucy Jane Bledsoe.

#Interviews #Lucy Jane Bledsoe #A Thin Bright Line #Elizabeth Stark

[365daysoflesbians]

FEBRUARY 1: Lucy Jane Bledsoe (1957-)

Lucy Jane Bledsoe is a contemporary US writer hailing from Portland, OR, who’s written about topics as diverse as science, basketball, and the Cold War.

Her books and writings range from children’s literature and literay fiction to nonfiction and magazine articles, and mainly focus on LGBT themes. Her work has garnered praise and earned her a few awards & fellowships - notably the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award (1985) and the Stonewall Book Award (1989, for Working Parts) - and she has been a four-times finalist of the Lambda Literary Awards.

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Lucy Jane Bledsoe’s also traveled three to Antarctica; three of her books discuss her experience: How to Survive in Antarctica, The Ice Cave: A Woman's Adventures from the Mojave to the Antarctic, and The Big Bang Symphony.In parallel, her writing showcases her interest in science and education: she’s written CD-ROM scripts for National Geographic and several other educational organizations, as well as a high school level biology text book back in the 1990s (though it’s been criticized for inaccuracies).

Her latest novel, A Thin Bright Line, has received a lot of praise. It’s been marketed as “an American love story with Cold War complications” and centers on the character of Bledsoe’s aunt, Lucybelle, who died in a fire when Bledsoe was very young. The book deals with themes as broad as climate change and queer love. Though it’s heavily rooted in biography, Bledsoe still considers it fiction - or at least straddling the line between the two, as she explained in an interview:

As for the book being fiction, truly I wrote much of the story as nonfiction. If I were a different kind of writer, I’d even call this book nonfiction today. Most of it is. But I wanted to explore her inner thoughts and feelings. I wanted to write dialogue. And even as the entire framework for the novel is nonfiction, I can never claim to have access to the thoughts and conversations of a woman who died in 1966. But more, I actually believe fiction can present a truer story than nonfiction. So I’d say that I wrote the book as nonfiction but knew, at least halfway into the project, that I would call it fiction, for complete disclosure.

Find her website here, and her twitter here!

- AK

#365daysoflesbians #lucy jane bledsoe #literature #writer #usa #20th century #lgbt #lgbt history #lgbt literature #lesbian #lesbian history #people #wlw #queer #queer history #queer women #lesbian writers

[persephones-stenographer]

Love has no mass or density; it's immeasurable. It might even be illusory. It's the purest risk.

Lucy Jane Bledsoe - A Thin Bright Line

#quotes #book quotes #Lucy Jane Bledsoe #A thin Bright Line

[clevvered-a]

❤  𝐏𝐄𝐎𝐏𝐋𝐄 𝐈'𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑!

1. alias / name: rose

2. birthday: june 24

3. zodiac sign: cancer

4. height: 4′11″

5. hobbies: writing, reading, ukulele, piano, my cat (yes he is a whole ass hobby)

6. favorite color: idk that i have one. i like different colors for different things.

7. favorite book: The Book Theif by Markus  Zusak, I am The Messenger also by Markus Zusak (agree with jas!! these are so good.) i do love the hp books tho (not you jkr) and also this wild silence by lucy jane bledsoe

8. last song: chosen family by rina sawayama

9. last film / show: jungle cruise / i’m currently rewatching stranger things

10. recent reads: i’m on book 6 of my hp reread

11. inspiration: rereading or rewatching source material. music.  

12. story behind url: bc she’s the ‘cleverest witch of her age’ lmao. i’m not creative.

13. fun fact about me: my cat is passed out on a paper bag like a drunk man

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#* dash game. //

[queerbookcorner]

Pride Alphabet continues with L for Lesbian! For my picks, I went with lesser known titles as opposed to the big ones (Carol, Fingersmith, Ash, etc) which are pretty standard “must reads” for anyone looking for f/f.

Previous Rec Lists: {A for Asexual+Aromantic | B for Bisexual | G for Genderqueer | G for Gay | I for Intersex} {POC 1 | POC 2}

Top 3 (Uncommon) Picks: 

The Dark Wife by S.E. Diemer Sassy Summary: Lesbian retelling of Persephone and Hades with a focus on love and companionship instead of the usual darker/edgier retellings. (And the author has it up for FREE on their site here!)

Rep: Both leading ladies and a secondary lady are all lesbians.

Miranda in Milan by Katherine Duckett Sassy Summary: If you've ever felt that Miranda from Shakespeare's The Tempest was too awesome for where her story went- this is the retelling for you! Exploring Miranda, the place of women, and now her relationship with a woman of color- this Gothic reimagining of Miranda’s tale gives one of Shakespeare’s heroines the love story she deserved.

Rep: Love interest is from Marrakech.

A Study in Honor by Claire O'Dell Sassy Summary: Black. Sapphic. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. In a political thriller in a post Trump-era world. And it's a series with a new book coming out in July!

Rep: Both leads are black lesbians and there are poc amongst the side characters.

The rest of the list: 

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by by Jeanette Winterson

Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard

The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

10 Things I Can See from Here by Carrie Mac

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins

Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule

Odd Girl Out by Ann Bannon

Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden

Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno

Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller

Wildthorn by Jane Eagland

Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by by Jaye Robin Brown

Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour

Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue

Get it Together, Delilah! by Erin Gough

Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel

Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake

Ruby-Fruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata

Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls

How to Talk to Nice English Girls by Gretchen Evans 

Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin

Carol by Patricia Highsmith

A Thin Bright Line by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Who is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht 

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling

Ash by Malinda Lo

#lesbian #lesbian books #wlw books #wlw #queer books #queer book recs #rep: lesbian

[dykelit]

lesbian book titles!

I’ll be adding more and categorizing as the blog grows, I haven’t read all of these, but I have read many if them already, I’ll start (re)reading and reviewing these books in the coming weeks!

Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

The price of Salt (Carol) by Patricia Highsmith

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

Dykes to Watch out For by Alison Bechdel

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily Danforth

Ash by Malinda Lo

Huntress by Malinda Lo

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline Davis

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

S/He by Minnie Bruce Pratt

Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule

Odd Girl Out by Ann Bannon

A Thin Bright Line by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour

The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie

Bend by Nancy Hedin

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

#lesbian #dyke #wlw #lgbt books #sapphic #alison bechdel #rubyfruit jungle #fingersmith #carol 2015 #the price of salt #tpos #leslie feinberg #stone butch blues #tipping the velvet #annie on my mind #the well of lonliness #fried green tomatoes #the miseducation of cameron post #the color purple #alice walker #dykes to watch out for #dtwof #fun home