On Adrienne Rich, 1929–2012

I was a first-semester high-school senior in 1987, grappling with a sexual-identity crisis, when an older friend — a used-book-store owner — gave me a Xerox copy of “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence,” Adrienne Rich’s essay about the spectrum of female intimacy, positing that all women have a place on … More »