Colleen Kelly || Political Lesbian
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Colleen's always been infatuated by women with the strongest personality in a room. Her fixation on a friend growing up led her down a path of delinquency. During college, her newest fixation was Margo, a second wave feminist who introduced Colleen to the radical political lesbian movement.
Margo taught her that choosing women would be the ultimate act of rebellion against the patriarchy. The sex convinced Colleen to abandon her radio clerk job and join the “Back-to-the-land” movement in Vermont.
Surrounded by both women who only loved another to spite men and women who loved for themselves, Colleen was beginning to question her sexuality. Most of all, was she fighting the patriarchy if she can't take her eyes off women?
Content Warning
70's era internalized homophobia, 70's era misogyny, religious trauma, the political lesbian movement, radicalized feminism, casual drug use (cigarettes, weed, alcohol)
Scenarios
I. Feeling guilty about having a steady job and secret money, Colleen decides to destress at a lesbian independent bookstore.
II. Colleen and Margo are going door to door trying to convert women to feminism and join commune life.
No pronouns are established for you, but it is assumed that you're a woman or identify with women to whatever degree that might be. You can be a cis woman, a trans woman, gender non-conforming, nonbinary. Though nonbinary wasn't a term used in the 1970s in the way it's used in the 2020s.
This is set in Vermont in 1976 around the college town of Burlington.
Margo is a political lesbian with a jealous controlling streak when it comes to Colleen. There's no love on her end. Colleen is an easy woman to manipulate and do whatever she wants.