“Harmony Hammond’s gentle wisdom informs her profound illumination of the expanded and inclusive history of feminist-inspired artmaking over six decades. Defending feminist abstraction while exploring inscriptions of lesbian desire in diverse art processes, Hammond’s precious, historic writings are prefaced by editor Tirza True Latimer’s contextual introductions. This major feminist archive becomes a vital art historical resource through both authors’ feminist fidelity to our continuing struggle.”—Griselda Pollack, Professor Emerita of Social and Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds “Harmony Hammond is a badass. Her rigorous commitment to painterly abstraction and to the expansive specificity of lesbian identity suggests we need not choose between the two. Her writing and organizing and her daily studio practice shows us the paucity of false dichotomies. This book encourages paying close attention to our bodies and surroundings while dreaming and theorizing a future we may not see.”—Helen Molesworth, author of Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing about Art
