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Companionship, kinship and continuum: Reflections with lesbian identifying older persons in Mumbai and Kolkata. 陪伴、亲缘关系和连续性：对孟买和加尔各答的女同性恋识别老年人的思考。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2026-02-06 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2026.2620925

Ranjita Biswas, Srabasti Majumdar, Niharika Banerjea

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Minnie Bruce Pratt's Longed-for but Unrealized World: A Roundtable with Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Margo Okazawa-Rey, and Matt Richardson. 米妮·布鲁斯·普拉特渴望但未实现的世界：与钱德拉·塔尔帕德·莫汉蒂、马戈·冈泽雷伊和马特·理查森的圆桌会议。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2026-02-04 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2026.2620930

Taylor Marie Doherty

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Messages to the future? Lesbian subversion of official categories in the 1921 UK census. 给未来的信息？女同性恋颠覆了1921年英国人口普查中的官方分类。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2026-02-01 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2026.2622097

Caroline Derry

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Remembering Las Hermanas: Collective care in lesbian feminist memory work. 铭记拉斯·赫马纳斯：女同性恋女权主义记忆工作中的集体关怀。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-21 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2026.2619244

Guadalupe Ortega

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(Pro)creating queer futures: queer mothers challenge the anti-social turn in queer theory. （支持）创造酷儿未来：酷儿母亲挑战酷儿理论的反社会转向。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-14 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2026.2612801

Laura Brightwell

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The Lesbian(s') Body in Italy. 意大利的女同性恋团体。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2025.2610931

Eva Feole, Irene Villa

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Exiles of love?: uncovering lesbian voices in interwar Czechoslovakia. 爱的流放者：发现战时捷克斯洛伐克女同性恋的声音》。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-30 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2401264

Mark Cornwall

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Interview with Mária Takács, documentary filmmaker, journalist and activist, founding member of the first Hungarian lesbian organization, Labrisz. 采访Mária Takács，纪录片制片人，记者和活动家，匈牙利第一个女同性恋组织，拉布里兹的创始成员。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-08 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2025.2543155

Aniko Imre

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Izabella Gustowska's Victim series as a case of queer feminist art in Central Eastern Europe. 伊莎贝拉·古斯托斯卡的《受害者》系列是中东欧酷儿女权主义艺术的一个案例。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-10 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2025.2514360

Paweł Leszkowicz

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On refusing to become, or to remain, heterosexual. 拒绝成为或保持异性恋。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-21 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2025.2513842

Meg Wesling

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