These Old Queers

Episode 9: Marcel Moore & Claude Cahun: Surrealist Antifa Revolutionaries!


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Megan shares the story of artists, activist antifa couple: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.


Here's hoping in these dark, despotic times their story of courage and radical activism can inspire us moving forward.


CW: anorexia, suicide


Sources:

2018 novel, Never Anyone But You, RupertThomson


https://www.huckmag.com/article/claude-cahun-jerseys-queer-anti-nazi-freedom-fighter


https://greyartmuseum.nyu.edu/2015/12/claude-cahun-as-anti-nazi-resistance-fighter/


Cole,Julie, "Claude Cahun, Marcel Moore and the Collaborative Construction of a Lesbian Subjectivity", in Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard (eds.), ReclaimingFemale Agency: Feminist Art History after Postmodernism(California: University of California Press, 2005), 343–60.

Jeffrey, Jackson (2020). Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis. New York: Algonquin Books. pp. 122–23. ISBN 978-1616209162.Don't Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore - Aperture/Tate; First Edition (June 15, 2006) Editor: Louise Downie

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