Thread by @VABVOX

Oct 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
#MphoTutuVanFurth is an Anglican priest, feminist activist, daughter of #DesmondTutu & lesbian.

Oct 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
#QuiJin was a Chinese scholar, revolutionary, feminist, writer, warrior & lesbian. She was executed at 31.

Oct 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
#Chrystos is a #NativeAmerican/indigenous poet, activist, two-spirit, lesbian.

Oct 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
#LenoreChinn is an Asian-American painter, activist & lesbian. She gives lectures on lesbians & art.

Oct 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
Here is another painting by Asian-American lesbian artist #LenoreChinn because I ♥ her work so much.

Oct 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
#EndomoniaWildfireLewis was an African American sculptor. She moved abroad to live freely as a lesbian.

Oct 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
#PratibhaParmar is a British filmmaker, here with Pulitzer Prize winner #AliceWalker, both lesbians.

Oct 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
#Lesbians have often been reduced to our sexuality and/or been used to titillate men, as in pulp fiction.

Oct 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
#SallyRide was an astrophysicist, astronaut, first American woman in space & a lesbian.

Oct 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
I was the 1st out lesbian w/a daily newspaper column on LGBT issues &was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Oct 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
Please learn more about lesbians I've written about here&seek out further histories as we're being erased.

Oct 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
Twitter kicked out my tweet of #EndomoniaWildfireLewis's sculpture. She worked primarily in marble.

Oct 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
One more sculpture by African American lesbian sculptor #EndomoniaWildfireLewis. A bust of her lover.

Oct 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
#KatherineLeeBates was a poet, educator & lesbian. She wrote #AmericaTheBeautiful, a better nat'l anthem.