Poet Joelle Taylor has written in the “Independent” paper ahead of a new exhibition of working class butch lesbian culture. In it she says “Thanks to punk feminism and magazines like Spare Rib and Shocking Pink I began to understand what a contentious space the female body is, what a no man’s land. …I am a butch lesbian, an identity which has a hard-won lineage of survival and cunning, of community and compassion.