Mitchell - Deep Lez

Interview
• Deep Lez is a social experiment
• DL is about rescuing lesbian and radical feminism from being forgotten or discarded ** link to Gever
• queer people constantly have to reinvent the wheel **link to shifting issues of representation
• lesbian feminism is seen as a joke or cliché - misogynist sentiment
• contemporary queer movement uses many of these principles without giving it credit
• about "practices rather than figuring out who "belongs" in or out of an identity" (23)
• originated from discarded handcraft

Manifesto
• Deep Lez is about commitment, staying power and significance **link to feminist conceptions of history
• Deep Lez seeks to map out the connections between the second position feminisms that have sustained radical lesbian politics and the current 'third wave' feminisms that look to unpack many of the concepts upon which those radical politics have been developed.
• This project is carefully situated not to simply hold on to history, but rather to examine how we might cull what is useful from lesbian herstories to redefine contemporary urban lesbian (and queer) existence. In so doing, 'lesbian' is resurrected as a potential site of radical identification, rather than one of de-politicized apathy (or worse, shame).
• Deep Lez originally began as a cultural project of mine, largely informing my art practice. I
• Deep Lez is meant as to be a macramed conceptual tangle for people to work though how they integrate art into their politics and how they live their lives and continue to get fired up about ideas. ** link to moore
• Deep Lez can offer alternative ways of imagining the world and who we are. It is meant to be passed hand-to-hand from crafter to filmmaker to academic to students to teachers to leaders and back again.
• We can band together through Deep Lez to imagine and realize our way out of this dysfunctional habitat to create new ecologies, new policies and new styles without war, poverty, violence and waste.
• Deep Lez is the volunteer, the workshop coordinator, the curator, the consumer, the first initiated and the instigator - anyone who gets intrigued by this bell-bottomed fat-assed catch all: whether they are dykes or not, they are still Deep Lez.