Joan Nestle

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Joan Nestle

Joan Nestle (born May 12, 1940 ) is an American teacher, author and editor of books. She is co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives , which have been collecting LGBT documents and materials since 1978 .

Life

Nestle grew up with her mother, Regina Nestle, a bookseller in New York City . She wrote that she owed her mother's “belief in a woman's inalienable right to enjoy sex”. Her father died before she was born. Nestle attended Martin Van Buren High School in Queens . and received her BA from Queens College in 1963. In the mid-1960s, she joined the US civil rights movement and traveled to the southern United States to join the Selma-Montgomery March . After this time she achieved her Masters in English at New York University in 1998 and then worked on her PhD for two years. In 1970 she decided to go to Queens to teach as a teacher.

Since the late 1950s, Nestle was part of the lesbian community in New York City, where she visited, among other things, the Sea Colony . After the Stonewall uprising in 1969, Nestle became involved in the gay liberation movement. She joined the Lesbian Liberation Committee in 1971 and helped found the Gay Academic Union (GAU). From 1972 onwards she and friends began collecting and keeping LGBT documents and materials. This resulted in the Lesbian Herstory Archives in New York City, which opened in 1976 and has been located in Brooklyn's Park Slope since 1992 after moving . Today the archive contains more than 20,000 books, 12,000 photographs and 1,600 periodicals.

Nestle began working as a fiction writer in 1978 when an illness forced her to cut back on teaching. In the 1980s she came under criticism for her erotic narratives. She has been rated a controversial author by radical feminists because of the eroticism in her works. Members of the US organization Women Against Pornography called for these stories to be censored.

Nestle influenced current LGBT writers with her work . Lillian Faderman described Nestle as an obstetrician in a revised look at lesbian relationships. In 1992 the anthology The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader appeared , which became the standard work in this subject area. In 1995, Nestle had to quit her teaching career entirely because she got colorectal cancer . In 2001 Nestle was also diagnosed with breast cancer. She currently resides in Australia with her partner, Diane Otto , a law professor .

Nestle's life was the subject of Joyce Warshow's documentary Hand on the Pulse .

Works by Nestle

  • A Fragile Union: New and Collected Writings , 1998
  • A Restricted Country , 1988

As editor

  • GENDERqUEER: Voices from Beyond the Binary , 2002 (jointly edited with Clare Howell and Riki Wilchins)
  • Best Lesbian Erotica 2000 , 1999, (jointly edited with Tristan Taormino )
  • The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction , 1999, (jointly edited with Naomi Holoch)
  • Women on Women 3: An Anthology of Lesbian Short Fiction , 1996, (jointly edited with Naomi Holoch )
  • Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write about Their Lives Together , 1994, (jointly edited with John Preston )
  • Women on Women 2: An Anthology of Lesbian Short Fiction , 1993, (jointly edited with Naomi Holoch)
  • The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader , 1992
  • Women on Women 1: An Anthology of Lesbian Short Fiction , 1990, (jointly edited with Naomi Holoch)

Prizes and awards

  • 1991: Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Anthology for Women on Women 1
  • 1993: Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Anthology for The Persistent Desire
  • 1995: Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian and Gay Anthology-Nonfiction for Sister and Brother
  • 1997: Lambda Literary Award Best Lesbian & Gay Anthology — Fiction for Women on Women 3
  • 1998: American Library Association Gay / Lesbian Book Award for A Restricted Country
  • 1999: Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Studies for A Fragile Union
  • 2000: Lambda Literary Award Best Lesbian & Gay Anthology — Fiction for The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nestle, Joan. My Mother Liked to Fuck. In Golding, Sue: The Eight Technologies of Otherness . Routledge, New York 1997, ISBN 0-415-14579-1 , pp. 159-161.
  2. ^ Joan Nestle , Gay & Lesbian Biography, St. James Press, 1997. Republished in: Biography Resource Center, 2007, Farmington Hills, Michigan: Thomson Gale
  3. ^ Joan Nestle , Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2002. Republished in: Biography Resource Center, 2007, Farmington Hills, Michigan: Thomson Gale
  4. ^ Joan Nestle, Sixty and Sexy , Ripe, January-April 2001
  5. ↑ The Lesbian Herstory Archives ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lesbianherstoryarchives.org
  6. ↑ glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Culture ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.glbtq.com
  7. ^ Joan Nestle , Gay & Lesbian Biography, St. James Press, 1997. Republished in: Biography Resource Center, 2007, Farmington Hills, Michigan: Thomson Gale
  8. ↑ Lillian Faderman , April 1992, The Return of Butch and Femme: A Phenomenon in Lesbian Sexuality of the 1980s and 1990s , Journal of the History of Sexuality 2 (4): 578-596
  9. ^ Martha Stone, October 31, 1997, What is called fem (me)? , The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review 4 (4): p. 51.
  10. ↑ Linda Rapp, 2005, Nestle, Joan on glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Culture

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personal data
SURNAME Nestle, Joan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City