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Interview with Carolyn Gage: Pat Cramer, a Virginia Woolf scholar, interviewed lesbian playwright Carolyn Gage in August for off our backs. (Interview).

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From: off our backs
Date: 20020101
Author:Cramer, Pat

Cramer: How does your publicly identifying yourself as a lesbian and radical feminist direct your work and, as importantly, your life?

Gage: It gives me a center, and it's accurate. It identifies me as a playwright/performer who defines her own reality and who places herself at the center of her experience. It says, "This is my context. Deal with it!" And, yes, that's an aggressive stance and, yes, I am oppressed for adopting it, but, and hear this, because it's critical to my keeping going: it renders my oppression intelligible.

Because I own the context of my work, the ...

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