Not long ago, I read Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. One line stayed with me: “Then I may tell you that the very next words I read were these—‘Chloe liked Olivia. . .’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.”


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Sydney Minor is a New York-born, UK-based arts writer and musician. She is currently an MPhil candidate in Musicology at Cambridge.