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Two middle-aged lesbians are heaped on couch that has seen better days. The women, too, have seen better days; one is in her early seventies, while the younger is close to sixty. Their home — a small bungalow - is crumbling into the creek bed upon which it was built a hundred years ago. From the stew of books and papers, the low murmur of PBS, you’d guess they were professors, listening to TV as they graded papers surrounded by dogs, some tucked into laps, some perched on furniture, some draped on other dogs.
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Hughes, H. (2015). It’s Hard to Spot the Queerness in this Image. In: Orozco, L., Parker-Starbuck, J. (eds) Performing Animality. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137373137_12
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