This is a quick homage to James Tiptree Jr./Alice Sheldon by the Chicagoist on what would have been her 97th birthday last year.
The article is brief but the author includes a biography-ish video that is just so weird and mildly informative and has jazz sax and weird dissolving mask graphics. Just scroll down and watch it.
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October 23rd, 2013 at 7:31 pm
That video was surprisingly comprehensive, despite the jazz.
October 23rd, 2013 at 7:34 pm
I haven’t finished the Julie Phillips biography, but I’m not sure Sheldon ever identified as lesbian. But anyway… I hadn’t yet heard the bit about the “file of birds” being the record of women she was in love with– she calls russ “swan” toward the end of their correspondence.
Hmmm…