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Don’t ignore butch lesbians, says T.S. Eliot prize winner Joelle Taylor

Don’t ignore butch lesbians, says T.S. Eliot prize winner Joelle Taylor

ELLA BRAIDWOOD BRITISH poet Joelle Taylor, winner of this year's prestigious T.S. Eliot prize for a collection exploring lesbian identity, says it is time the mainstream media gave a voice to "butch dykes" like herself. Taylor, 54, said she hoped her prize-winning "C+nto & Othered Poems" could act as a catalyst for other under-represented LGBT+ people to offer "an alternative narrative", urging TV production companies to embrace them as writers. "It's about the media accepting a far more diverse set of narratives, and the way we look and owning the fact that they own the narrative to begin with," Taylor…
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