A hunger for fiction

Hello all! I'm starting this blog because I want to deal with issues of representation, the presence or absence and the nature thereof, and the hunger that arises when you cannot see yourself in the stories you read or watch or hear or play, as well as the tendency to imagine yourself, or someone like you, into these stories. I will most likely also write about the history of women's and gay and trans movements, among others, as well as legal issues or current events.


I chose the name in reference to lesbian goggles, or the tendency for lesbians to read characters as lesbian (in response to the dearth of officially lesbian characters) and to the fact that I'm in library school.