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Amy Hale on the Magical Life and Art of Ithell Colquhoun

Oddcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

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Sex Magic - A Woman Artist's Work

After this we see all of this very sexy stuff going on in her artwork and then in the 1940-41 period she does some pieces dealing with alchemical conjunction based on the sex magic theory. She had other, I'm sure that she would never have labeled herself as queer although she did realize that she was interested for a time in lesbian sexuality. But queer as a positive self-identifier didn't exist until the 90s really so. Exactly. If anything it was just an insult you wouldn't have claimed it for your own. And even the degree to which she would have identified as lesbian or sexual or sapphic the women she knew around her in that milieu would have

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