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Renate Stendhal  // Posts published by Renate Stendhal

16 Dec Posted by in Guest Writers | 4 comments

A Lesbian Guide to Holiday Grudges

A Lesbian Guide to Holiday Grudges

The holidays are in full swing. In fact, we’re right in the thick of it– preparations are being made, money is being spent, and that deeply ingrained sense of doom which occurs every year around this time is rising to the surface: The Grudge Beast is getting ready to unleash. Every Christmas, couples go through […]

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02 Sep Posted by in Guest Writers | 1 comment

The Sex That Dare Not Speak Its Name?

The Sex That Dare Not Speak Its Name?

Brave new world of e-publishing: We changed the title of our book. Not while we were writing it, not prior to publication, not before anyone had caught sight of the original title and cover. The book had been out in the world and circulating, physically and electronically; we’d read it from it at public events, […]

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24 Jul Posted by in Guest Writers | 1 comment

The New Art of Capturing Love

The New Art of Capturing Love

The New Art of Capturing Love by Kathryn Hamm and Thea Dodds is a great new book for lesbians and their gay and straight friends and families. A book that captures love from “until death do you part“ in gorgeous photography and beautiful writing. How refreshing to see conventions fall and be replaced by the new images that […]

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18 May Posted by in Guest Writers | 1 comment

Marriage is a Trickster

Marriage is a Trickster

Excerpt from Lesbian Marriage: A Sex Survival Kit By Kim Chernin and Renate Stendhal Marriage is not the remedy for couple trouble! But there is a lot of magical and wishful thinking about it: marriage will give you a new start, fix your problems, fulfill your dreams… It’s the myth of the “Make-Over Marriage.” (Should […]

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31 Mar Posted by in Guest Writers | 1 comment

Lesbian Marriage: YES I DO

Lesbian Marriage: YES I DO

A conversation between Kim Chernin and Renate Stendhal, authors of the forthcoming guide book Lesbian Marriage: A Sex Survival Kit KIM: It’s curious, isn’t it, that it took us almost three decades before we wanted to get married? RENATE: It is, although I always had a thing about weddings. As a child, and all through […]

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12 Nov Posted by in Guest Writers | 5 comments

How Sexy is ‘Blue Is The Warmest Color’?

How Sexy is ‘Blue Is The Warmest Color’?

We went to see the opening of the French director Abdellatif Kechiche’s movie Blue is the Warmest Color that won all the prizes at the Festival of Cannes this year. A three-hour-long lesbian movie. One of my friends said, “I know why this is so long and boring: to hide the fact that it’s essentially […]

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23 Sep Posted by in Guest Writers | 3 comments

Much Ado About Vaginas

Much Ado About Vaginas

Let’s continue on the heels of Jewelle Gomez and her thought-provoking post Care to Speculate? from August 21st. I often wonder how much of the radical-lesbian, feminist gains from our Second Wave revolution have survived the backlash of so-called family values and the onslaught of the religious right? Which one of us would have imagined, […]

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