In August 2023, FQ Board member Amy Villarejo sat down with Phyllis Nagy, Academy Award–nominated screenwriter of the lesbian hit Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015), to talk about her newest project: a limited-series biopic of the writer Patricia Highsmith, whom Nagy knew from her early adulthood until Highsmith’s death in 1995. Their conversation asks what was at stake in the name “lesbian” now and then.

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