Joan Nestle: An Interview
1998 | 00:00:00 | United States | English | Color | Mono | 4:3 | Hi8 video
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Tags: Gender, History, Interview, LGBTQ, Politics, VDB Interviews, Visiting Artists Program


In 1973 Joan Nestle co-founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives, an essential collection of documents, writings, and artifacts of lesbian cultural history. In 1979 she began writing erotic stories and has published two collections of writings: A Restricted Country (1987) and A Fragile Union (1998). She took a controversial stance in opposition to the 1980s feminist anti-pornography movement, thus becoming a fervent pro-sex activist in the “Sex Wars.” Interview by Nina Levitt.