Everywhere and nowhere — and still here

The Lesbian Snapshot Collective (LSC) is a growing, ever-evolving gathering of lesbians, dykes, and queer women across Scotland, reclaiming visibility on our own terms — through images, storytelling, and shared creative action.

Newly formed, our pilot project Becoming Archived coming soon to the Glasgow Women’s Library and Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive (Edinburgh) is an open invitation to lesbians to bring a personal snapshot of themselves, share the stories behind them and reflect on what it means to self-archive in real time: to choose how we are seen, remembered, and represented.

The LSC is grounded in friendliness and care, not hierarchy. We come together through similarities and differences and crucially through shared purpose. If you claim “lesbian” in any way, you are already part of this collective.

We celebrate lesbian presence across time, place, and form, creating ways to be seen and recognised that mainstream culture and archives often miss. We’re especially keen to hear from those who came out in Scotland during the Section 28 era, as well as younger dykes coming out now — exploring what it means to be a lez, dyke and/or queer in Scotland today.