{"id":1943541,"date":"2026-05-19T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1943541"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:05:00","slug":"inside-kutt-the-cult-lesbian-00s-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1943541","title":{"rendered":"Inside KUTT, the cult lesbian 00s magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1190\/128-274-1190-793\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445486.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"main-article longread\">\n<div class=\"article-main-content article-wrapper has-media-but-its-an-image\" data-status=\"loaded\" data-primary-article=\"true\" data-url=\"\/art-photography\/article\/70291\/1\/kutt-idea-books-lesbian-magazine-oos-chloe-sevigny-collier-schorr\" data-article-id=\"70291\">\n<header class=\"article-header has-portrait-image no-media\">\n<div class=\"wrapper dg-max-width\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<figure class=\"main-img has-figcaption\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.8\" data-template=\"Longread Article\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KUTT\" class=\"img\" height=\"1824\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1400\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445486.jpg\" width=\"1460\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"inner\"><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of KUTT <span class=\"nowrap\">and IDEA<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"inner\"><time datetime=\"2026-05-19T16:05:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"19 May 2026\"><span class=\"month\">DateInMeta<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"19\">19,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"titles\">\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical vertical - art-photography\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\">Art &amp; Photography<\/a><br \/>\n\/<br \/>\n<a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/longread\">Longread<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><span>Inside KUTT, the cult lesbian <span class=\"nowrap\">00s magazine<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<h2>Featuring the likes of Chlo\u00eb Sevigny with photography by Ryan McGinley, Collier Schorr, Viviane Sassen, and more, all three rare issues of KUTT are being republished as <span class=\"nowrap\">one volume<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-05-19T16:05:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"19 May 2026\"><span class=\"month\">May<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"19\">19,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical - art-photography\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\">Art &amp; Photography<\/a><a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/longread\">Longread<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-05-19T16:05:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"19 May 2026\"><span class=\"month\">May<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"19\">19,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"providers\">\n<div class=\"contributors\"><span class=\"contributor\" data-contributor-role=\"Text\"><span class=\"contributor-role\">Text<\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/EloiseCooke\"><br \/>\nEloise Cooke<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-body-container\">\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"dazed-gallery has-22-images \">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"info\"><span class=\"heading\">KUTT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumbs\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/37051\/0\/kutt\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KUTT\" class=\"img\" height=\"1662\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/286-304-2493-1662\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445481.jpg\" width=\"2493\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/37051\/1\/kutt\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KUTT\" class=\"img\" height=\"1599\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/333-427-2398-1599\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445482.jpg\" width=\"2398\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/37051\/2\/kutt\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KUTT\" class=\"img\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-3000-2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445483.jpg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/37051\/3\/kutt\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KUTT\" class=\"img\" height=\"1141\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/192-156-1712-1141\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445484.jpg\" width=\"1712\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/37051\/4\/kutt\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KUTT\" class=\"img\" height=\"886\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/130-222-1330-886\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445485.jpg\" width=\"1330\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/37051\/5\/kutt\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KUTT\" class=\"img\" height=\"793\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/128-274-1190-793\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445486.jpg\" width=\"1190\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 22 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\">\n<div class data-turn-id-container=\"request-6a01c127-a2a8-83eb-bfe6-38d41d6a454f-12\" data-is-intersecting=\"true\">\n<div class=\"relative w-full overflow-visible\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"97d426ea-08cf-4b06-93de-adf4b76bdab8\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-5-thinking\" data-turn-start-message=\"true\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert wrap-break-word w-full light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p>Like many good ideas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ideanow.online\/blogs\/superbooks\/kutt?srsltid=AfmBOorcjPZ9xog9Iy1ERu3OTwMh062jqNF9J83lMZRc0vO8OCptpL7t\"><em>KUTT<\/em><\/a>\u00a0began half as a joke and half as a dare. In 2002, Jessica Gysel was in a bar with Jop van Bennekom and Gert Jonkers, the editors who had just launched <em>BUTT<\/em> magazine, when they started talking about making a lesbian counterpart. \u201cIt was really this drunk bar moment where you\u2019re making plans, and are like: oh my god, let\u2019s make a lesbian version of this, more as a joke,\u201d says Gysel, speaking from her office in Brussels. \u201cBut then we did it, so voila!\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"672\" data-end=\"937\">The result was <em data-start=\"689\" data-end=\"695\">KUTT<\/em>, a cult dyke zine that is now rarer than rare. Where <em data-start=\"749\" data-end=\"755\">BUTT<\/em> had quickly become a phenomenon for its frank, funny and sexually direct portrait of gay male life, <em data-start=\"856\" data-end=\"862\">KUTT<\/em> asked a simple question: \u201cWhy isn\u2019t [there] all that also for lesbians?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>During its comet-like run between 2002 and 2003, <em>KUTT<\/em> published just three issues, featuring it-girl actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/chloe-sevigny\">Chlo\u00eb Sevigny<\/a>, acclaimed writer and activist Eileen Myles, experimental filmmaker K8 Hardy, and feminist queer icon Merrill Nisker, aka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/peaches\">Peaches<\/a>, to name a few. Its signature lilac pages were filled with photography by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/ryan-mcginley\">Ryan McGinley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/collier-schorr\">Collier Schorr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/viviane-Sassen\">Viviane Sassen<\/a>, Martien Mulder and many more. Capturing a burgeoning queer scene, <em>KUTT<\/em> was, according to Myles, \u201cevidence of how cool the new generation of lesbians who were around at that time were\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>24 years later, a compendium of <em data-start=\"41\" data-end=\"47\">KUTT<\/em> is being reproduced in facsimile by IDEA, bringing all three issues together in one volume. \u201cMost people who want them cannot afford them. Of all the rare and out-of-print books and magazines IDEA has written about, <em data-start=\"264\" data-end=\"270\">KUTT<\/em> is the most popular,\u201d says IDEA co-founder David Owen, the D in IDEA.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"bf94568a-5ff1-4559-8c9b-b44f00ee5d2c\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445503.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.76\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KUTT\" class=\"img\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1600\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445503.jpg\" width=\"2288\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of KUTT <span class=\"nowrap\">and IDEA<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\">\n<div class data-turn-id-container=\"request-6a01c127-a2a8-83eb-bfe6-38d41d6a454f-16\" data-is-intersecting=\"true\">\n<div class=\"relative w-full overflow-visible\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"9781eff9-a0ac-4d54-b191-ce2e671e81b1\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-5-thinking\" data-turn-start-message=\"true\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert wrap-break-word w-full light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"408\" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node>The magazine\u2019s name \u2013 a derivative of the Dutch \u201ckut\u201d, meaning cunt \u2013 was thought up over dinner. Its reclamation of the word now feels prescient of contemporary feminist reappropriations. \u201cEven though <em data-start=\"202\" data-end=\"208\">BUTT<\/em> and <em data-start=\"213\" data-end=\"219\">KUTT<\/em> are a bit of a statement, it\u2019s not a statement of defensiveness,\u201d Mulder says. \u201cIt was more: this is who we are, this is what we love, this is how we have sex, this is what we talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAround that time, I started to discover photographers who photographed real things,\u201d Gysel says. Visually, <em data-start=\"413\" data-end=\"419\">KUTT<\/em> drew on the direct, unvarnished style of photographers like Nan Goldin and Corinne Day. \u201cI am really more interested in this kind of photography than the high-end, highly produced and elaborate.\u201d The result was photography that felt \u201cunstaged and very reportage-driven\u201d, focused on \u201cnot making it look like anything other than itself\u201d. For Mulder, that approach was partly instinctive and partly practical. \u201cI was at the very beginning of my career,\u201d she explains. \u201cI didn\u2019t know how to do it differently. I didn\u2019t even know how big shoots worked [\u2026] So, that was just me and a camera, meeting people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em data-start=\"1027\" data-end=\"1033\">KUTT<\/em> cover star Chlo\u00eb Sevigny remembers the magazine arriving at a moment when print culture felt newly experimental. \u201cMagazines kind of ruled,\u201d she tells Dazed. \u201cEveryone was trying to reshape what a magazine was, every photo shoot was trying to one-up the last one and redesign the wheel. When <em data-start=\"1327\" data-end=\"1333\">BUTT<\/em> came out in its starkness and text-heavy form that was not about fashion, per se, it was arresting, and everybody took notice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"905df35a-0d73-4e39-9266-b44f00ee598f\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445502.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.78\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KUTT\" class=\"img\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1600\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445502.jpg\" width=\"2355\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of KUTT <span class=\"nowrap\">and IDEA<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\">\n<div class data-turn-id-container=\"request-6a01c127-a2a8-83eb-bfe6-38d41d6a454f-0\" data-is-intersecting=\"true\">\n<div class=\"relative w-full overflow-visible\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"74d5bd85-7fc4-4fa3-bf3a-8ef9783e262d\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-5-thinking\" data-turn-start-message=\"true\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert wrap-break-word w-full light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"711\" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node>These days, Mulder says, \u201ceverybody\u2019s guarded\u201d, but back when <em data-start=\"62\" data-end=\"68\">KUTT<\/em> met Sevigny, \u201cit was just like, let\u2019s meet up and see what happens\u201d. Sevigny remembers \u201cjust smoking and it being very casual. Those photos are very beautiful now that I look at them\u201d. Her hoodie was her \u201cuniform at the time,\u201d and The Smiths\u2019 45 of \u201cSheila Take a Bow\u201d was her attempt at decorating the flat, complete with bedspreads thrown over the \u201cdingy blue\u2026 stained and gross\u201d sofas. It was not meticulously planned, nor executed by whole teams of people whose job it is to protect a carefully curated, perfectly poised image. \u201cWe just talked to the subjects, reported it, wrote it down verbatim,\u201d Mulder says. \u201cThere [was] no polishing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>More often than not, Mulder says, the subjects \u201calready had a relationship with a photographer\u201d. Rather than being commissioned from the outside, the shoots tended to come from within the same social world: \u201cIt was always in the family, or inside the friend circle.\u201d One favourite was Ryan McGinley\u2019s photo series <em data-start=\"637\" data-end=\"654\">Lizzy the Lezzy<\/em>, which captured singer and model Lissy Trullie with the looseness and confidence of friends playing for the camera.<\/p>\n<p>McGinley remembers Trullie, who he describes as \u201cone of the most angelic gay girls downtown,\u201d as part of a tight-knit queer nightlife scene. \u201cWe went to college together, we are still close two decades later,\u201d McGinley tells Dazed. \u201cWe were the artsy, fashionable queer kids who loved New York nightlife. At the time, we had a gay bar crawl down Avenue A in the East Village. The Cock was our favourite bar because our friends who wrote graffiti bartended and our queer girlfriends DJ-ed. The bar felt like our clubhouse and we could drink for free.\u201d <span>McGinley and Trullie set up a mini trampoline in the bathroom: \u201cLissy jumped for about an hour under the fluorescent lights, against the tagged-up astronaut wallpaper. The photos ended up in <\/span><em><span>KUTT<\/span><\/em><span> a few months later, and she garnered lesbian worldwide fame in the before-internet-times.\u201d<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Collier Schorr\u2019s series <em data-start=\"314\" data-end=\"344\">My Girlfriend\u2019s Cousin Karin<\/em> actually featured her girlfriend\u2019s niece. The portraits were taken \u201cover time, maybe a whole summer\u201d, while Schorr was in Germany living with her girlfriend\u2019s family. \u201cHer niece started dating the girl from across the street. It was beautiful to see and share and support, and I was always photographing them,\u201d Schorr remembers. \u201cPhotography is a strange brew,\u201d she says. \u201cYears later, family pressures created rifts. The pictures are a treasure, but maybe also led to some stress.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"2d8d538a-94a0-4be5-b812-b44f00ee432f\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445495.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.42\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KUTT\" class=\"img\" height=\"1417\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1600\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445495.jpg\" width=\"2008\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Vol 3 Emmeline and Marlous by Viviane <span class=\"nowrap\">Sassen, 2003<\/span><\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of KUTT <span class=\"nowrap\">and IDEA<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><em><span>KUTT<\/span><\/em><span>\u2019s aesthetic of ease is remarkable. Its look is inimitable because it was not really manufactured in the first place. Mulder\u2019s <\/span><em><span>Mattress Series<\/span><\/em><span> is erotic rather than pornographic, and not without the tender impishness of an adolescent sleepover. The first two images were of Mulder and her then-girlfriend: while on holiday, they took Polaroids of each other in bed \u2013 or, rather, on it. The intimate set-up reframes the images almost entirely. Knowing they were shot through the lens of lovers makes their headless bodies feel alive again, freed from the objectification of the male gaze.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When there was little lesbian visibility, <\/span><em><span>KUTT<\/span><\/em><span> filled a gap in the landscape. Much of the project was about \u201ctalking from a lived experience\u201d, Gysel says, addressing \u201cwhat it means to be a lesbian: how do you deal with your exes? How do you build relationships? How do you come out?\u201d Gysel was particularly interested in lives \u201coutside of the spotlight\u201d. \u201cSo much work is done there that goes unnoticed. Like in the Aids crisis, so many lesbians did so much work,\u201d she says. These stories about regular women were crucial to a fuller representation of lesbian life, showing that queer lives are ordinary and varied. These women love, work, hang out, write, play and have sex.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em data-start=\"299\" data-end=\"305\">KUTT<\/em> was really curious about the peculiar and the specific of each person,\u201d Mulder says. At the core of the project was a desire to be as honest as possible \u2013 an impulse Gysel also found in Eileen Myles\u2019s writing. She describes Myles\u2019s work as \u201can honest story of their struggles; the alcohol, drug problems,\u201d adding, \u201cI was also not very sober in those days, so I could click.\u201d When Gysel met Myles a few years ago, the two spent the day together, going for lunch and attending a pro-Palestine demonstration. \u201cIt was so fun,\u201d Gysel says. Myles, contacted for comment, offers a neat encapsulation of why <em data-start=\"906\" data-end=\"912\">KUTT<\/em> remains so compelling: \u201chonesty is the most attractive quality in a living thing.\u201d Like Myles\u2019s writing, <em data-start=\"1018\" data-end=\"1024\">KUTT<\/em> does not beat around the bush.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"89b56b33-f503-4be6-b5c7-b44f00ee37c2\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445489.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.42\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KUTT\" class=\"img\" height=\"2118\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1600\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445489.jpg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Vol 1: Photography by Nienke Bakker and Martien <span class=\"nowrap\">Mulder, 2002<\/span><\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of KUTT <span class=\"nowrap\">and IDEA<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\">\n<div class data-turn-id-container=\"c549847c-3336-4dac-885c-7d979bb314c1\" data-is-intersecting=\"true\">\n<div class=\"relative w-full overflow-visible\">\n<div class=\"contents\"><span>For Myles, publications like <\/span><em data-start=\"29\" data-end=\"35\">KUTT<\/em><span> remain \u201cculty ways of sharing information \u2013 conversations, pictures, drawings\u2026 most importantly, they are cause for a party. Since about the 90s, parties and art events are about the only queer trans gatherings that occur other than political actions or memorials.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class data-turn-id-container=\"request-6a01c127-a2a8-83eb-bfe6-38d41d6a454f-7\" data-is-intersecting=\"true\">\n<div class=\"relative w-full overflow-visible\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"db1e9734-68ee-4fcc-b356-37f6e3f2472f\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-5-thinking\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert wrap-break-word w-full light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p data-start=\"303\" data-end=\"1091\" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node><em><span>KUTT<\/span><\/em><span>\u2019s closure in 2003 was not abrupt, but considered. By then, those involved felt the magazine had run up against the limits of its own format. \u201cMaybe in the end, it felt too much like a derivative and I think Gysel was sensitive to that, and we were sensitive to that as well,\u201d van Bennekom says. Gysel felt similarly. \u201c<\/span><em><span>KUTT<\/span><\/em><span> didn\u2019t fully represent lesbian culture as it was at that moment,\u201d she reflects. \u201cI felt we first had to make something that had more visibility, that was a bit more uplifting.\u201d The straight-shooting sexual aspect \u2013 so central to <\/span><em><span>BUTT<\/span><\/em><span> \u2013 \u201cwas quite hard to translate to a lesbian context,\u201d Gysel says. Van Bennekom agrees that \u201clots of lesbian culture was left a little bit in the shadows\u201d, adding, \u201cit\u2019s always hard to create a world that doesn\u2019t exist yet. I think the format of the magazine was sort of invented for the gay male identity. And maybe less so for the lesbian woman.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt feels very far away, in a way,\u201d says Gysel, reflecting on what the return of <em data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"87\">KUTT<\/em> means. \u201cI have mixed feelings about it. I have fond memories of the time making it. The aftermath, I&#8217;m not so sure\u2026 the fact that we were women, we didn&#8217;t have all the chances that <em data-start=\"269\" data-end=\"275\">BUTT<\/em> had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maybe now, van Bennekom suggests, people are more ready and willing to engage with something as honestly queer as <em data-start=\"397\" data-end=\"403\">KUTT<\/em>. Maybe its \u201cin-your-face visibility\u201d will resonate with another generation. \u201cWe\u2019re living in a much more feminine moment than 25 years ago,\u201d he observes. \u201cI think that\u2019s a big shift. Also, the cis gay male world is 200% more feminine than it was, because there was always a bit of a stigma around femininity. And now femininity, it&#8217;s very much embraced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>As Sevigny says, \u201cIt is a nice object, and it is important.\u201d Sparse and coolly understated, this may sum it up. <\/span><em><span>KUTT<\/span><\/em><span>\u2019s photography and design alone are enrapturing; the magazine as a whole is something more. It is as much about sex as it is about love, as much about love as daily life, as much about daily life as cult celebrity, and as much about cult celebrity as erotic comics. As Gysel wrote in the magazine\u2019s reprint, \u201cIt took 25 years to get here! Long live the lesbians!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>KUTT <em>is published by IDEA and is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ideanow.online\/blogs\/superbooks\/kutt?srsltid=AfmBOorcjPZ9xog9Iy1ERu3OTwMh062jqNF9J83lMZRc0vO8OCptpL7t\">here<\/a> now.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"article-footer\">\n<div class=\"article-series header tags\"><span class=\"heading\">More on these topics:<\/span><a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\">Art &amp; Photography<\/a><a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/longread\">Longread<\/a><a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/tag\/lesbians\">Lesbians<\/a><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"grid split-list__header\">\n<div class=\"section-header\">\n<div class=\"section-header__link\">\n<h2 class=\"section-header__title\">Trending<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"split-list-scene\" data-split-scene>\n<section class=\"split-list\" 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Photography<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"dazed-gallery has-22-images \">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"info\"><span class=\"heading\">KUTT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumbs\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/37051\/0\/kutt\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KUTT\" class=\"img\" height=\"1662\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/286-304-2493-1662\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445481.jpg\" width=\"2493\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/37051\/1\/kutt\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KUTT\" class=\"img\" height=\"1599\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/333-427-2398-1599\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445482.jpg\" width=\"2398\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/37051\/2\/kutt\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KUTT\" class=\"img\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-3000-2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445483.jpg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/37051\/3\/kutt\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KUTT\" class=\"img\" height=\"1141\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/192-156-1712-1141\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445484.jpg\" width=\"1712\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/37051\/4\/kutt\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KUTT\" class=\"img\" height=\"886\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/130-222-1330-886\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445485.jpg\" width=\"1330\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/37051\/5\/kutt\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KUTT\" class=\"img\" height=\"793\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/128-274-1190-793\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445486.jpg\" width=\"1190\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 22 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\">\n<div class data-turn-id-container=\"request-6a01c127-a2a8-83eb-bfe6-38d41d6a454f-12\" data-is-intersecting=\"true\">\n<div class=\"relative w-full overflow-visible\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"97d426ea-08cf-4b06-93de-adf4b76bdab8\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-5-thinking\" data-turn-start-message=\"true\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert wrap-break-word w-full light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p>Like many good ideas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ideanow.online\/blogs\/superbooks\/kutt?srsltid=AfmBOorcjPZ9xog9Iy1ERu3OTwMh062jqNF9J83lMZRc0vO8OCptpL7t\"><em>KUTT<\/em><\/a>\u00a0began half as a joke and half as a dare. In 2002, Jessica Gysel was in a bar with Jop van Bennekom and Gert Jonkers, the editors who had just launched <em>BUTT<\/em> magazine, when they started talking about making a lesbian counterpart. \u201cIt was really this drunk bar moment where you\u2019re making plans, and are like: oh my god, let\u2019s make a lesbian version of this, more as a joke,\u201d says Gysel, speaking from her office in Brussels. \u201cBut then we did it, so voila!\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"672\" data-end=\"937\">The result was <em data-start=\"689\" data-end=\"695\">KUTT<\/em>, a cult dyke zine that is now rarer than rare. Where <em data-start=\"749\" data-end=\"755\">BUTT<\/em> had quickly become a phenomenon for its frank, funny and sexually direct portrait of gay male life, <em data-start=\"856\" data-end=\"862\">KUTT<\/em> asked a simple question: \u201cWhy isn\u2019t [there] all that also for lesbians?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>During its comet-like run between 2002 and 2003, <em>KUTT<\/em> published just three issues, featuring it-girl actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/chloe-sevigny\">Chlo\u00eb Sevigny<\/a>, acclaimed writer and activist Eileen Myles, experimental filmmaker K8 Hardy, and feminist queer icon Merrill Nisker, aka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/peaches\">Peaches<\/a>, to name a few. Its signature lilac pages were filled with photography by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/ryan-mcginley\">Ryan McGinley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/collier-schorr\">Collier Schorr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/viviane-Sassen\">Viviane Sassen<\/a>, Martien Mulder and many more. Capturing a burgeoning queer scene, <em>KUTT<\/em> was, according to Myles, \u201cevidence of how cool the new generation of lesbians who were around at that time were\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>24 years later, a compendium of <em data-start=\"41\" data-end=\"47\">KUTT<\/em> is being reproduced in facsimile by IDEA, bringing all three issues together in one volume. \u201cMost people who want them cannot afford them. Of all the rare and out-of-print books and magazines IDEA has written about, <em data-start=\"264\" data-end=\"270\">KUTT<\/em> is the most popular,\u201d says IDEA co-founder David Owen, the D in IDEA.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"bf94568a-5ff1-4559-8c9b-b44f00ee5d2c\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445503.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.76\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KUTT\" class=\"img\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1600\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445503.jpg\" width=\"2288\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of KUTT <span class=\"nowrap\">and IDEA<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\">\n<div class data-turn-id-container=\"request-6a01c127-a2a8-83eb-bfe6-38d41d6a454f-16\" data-is-intersecting=\"true\">\n<div class=\"relative w-full overflow-visible\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"9781eff9-a0ac-4d54-b191-ce2e671e81b1\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-5-thinking\" data-turn-start-message=\"true\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert wrap-break-word w-full light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"408\" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node>The magazine\u2019s name \u2013 a derivative of the Dutch \u201ckut\u201d, meaning cunt \u2013 was thought up over dinner. Its reclamation of the word now feels prescient of contemporary feminist reappropriations. \u201cEven though <em data-start=\"202\" data-end=\"208\">BUTT<\/em> and <em data-start=\"213\" data-end=\"219\">KUTT<\/em> are a bit of a statement, it\u2019s not a statement of defensiveness,\u201d Mulder says. \u201cIt was more: this is who we are, this is what we love, this is how we have sex, this is what we talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAround that time, I started to discover photographers who photographed real things,\u201d Gysel says. Visually, <em data-start=\"413\" data-end=\"419\">KUTT<\/em> drew on the direct, unvarnished style of photographers like Nan Goldin and Corinne Day. \u201cI am really more interested in this kind of photography than the high-end, highly produced and elaborate.\u201d The result was photography that felt \u201cunstaged and very reportage-driven\u201d, focused on \u201cnot making it look like anything other than itself\u201d. For Mulder, that approach was partly instinctive and partly practical. \u201cI was at the very beginning of my career,\u201d she explains. \u201cI didn\u2019t know how to do it differently. I didn\u2019t even know how big shoots worked [\u2026] So, that was just me and a camera, meeting people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em data-start=\"1027\" data-end=\"1033\">KUTT<\/em> cover star Chlo\u00eb Sevigny remembers the magazine arriving at a moment when print culture felt newly experimental. \u201cMagazines kind of ruled,\u201d she tells Dazed. \u201cEveryone was trying to reshape what a magazine was, every photo shoot was trying to one-up the last one and redesign the wheel. When <em data-start=\"1327\" data-end=\"1333\">BUTT<\/em> came out in its starkness and text-heavy form that was not about fashion, per se, it was arresting, and everybody took notice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"905df35a-0d73-4e39-9266-b44f00ee598f\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445502.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.78\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KUTT\" class=\"img\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1600\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445502.jpg\" width=\"2355\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of KUTT <span class=\"nowrap\">and IDEA<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\">\n<div class data-turn-id-container=\"request-6a01c127-a2a8-83eb-bfe6-38d41d6a454f-0\" data-is-intersecting=\"true\">\n<div class=\"relative w-full overflow-visible\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"74d5bd85-7fc4-4fa3-bf3a-8ef9783e262d\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-5-thinking\" data-turn-start-message=\"true\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert wrap-break-word w-full light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"711\" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node>These days, Mulder says, \u201ceverybody\u2019s guarded\u201d, but back when <em data-start=\"62\" data-end=\"68\">KUTT<\/em> met Sevigny, \u201cit was just like, let\u2019s meet up and see what happens\u201d. Sevigny remembers \u201cjust smoking and it being very casual. Those photos are very beautiful now that I look at them\u201d. Her hoodie was her \u201cuniform at the time,\u201d and The Smiths\u2019 45 of \u201cSheila Take a Bow\u201d was her attempt at decorating the flat, complete with bedspreads thrown over the \u201cdingy blue\u2026 stained and gross\u201d sofas. It was not meticulously planned, nor executed by whole teams of people whose job it is to protect a carefully curated, perfectly poised image. \u201cWe just talked to the subjects, reported it, wrote it down verbatim,\u201d Mulder says. \u201cThere [was] no polishing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>More often than not, Mulder says, the subjects \u201calready had a relationship with a photographer\u201d. Rather than being commissioned from the outside, the shoots tended to come from within the same social world: \u201cIt was always in the family, or inside the friend circle.\u201d One favourite was Ryan McGinley\u2019s photo series <em data-start=\"637\" data-end=\"654\">Lizzy the Lezzy<\/em>, which captured singer and model Lissy Trullie with the looseness and confidence of friends playing for the camera.<\/p>\n<p>McGinley remembers Trullie, who he describes as \u201cone of the most angelic gay girls downtown,\u201d as part of a tight-knit queer nightlife scene. \u201cWe went to college together, we are still close two decades later,\u201d McGinley tells Dazed. \u201cWe were the artsy, fashionable queer kids who loved New York nightlife. At the time, we had a gay bar crawl down Avenue A in the East Village. The Cock was our favourite bar because our friends who wrote graffiti bartended and our queer girlfriends DJ-ed. The bar felt like our clubhouse and we could drink for free.\u201d <span>McGinley and Trullie set up a mini trampoline in the bathroom: \u201cLissy jumped for about an hour under the fluorescent lights, against the tagged-up astronaut wallpaper. The photos ended up in <\/span><em><span>KUTT<\/span><\/em><span> a few months later, and she garnered lesbian worldwide fame in the before-internet-times.\u201d<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Collier Schorr\u2019s series <em data-start=\"314\" data-end=\"344\">My Girlfriend\u2019s Cousin Karin<\/em> actually featured her girlfriend\u2019s niece. The portraits were taken \u201cover time, maybe a whole summer\u201d, while Schorr was in Germany living with her girlfriend\u2019s family. \u201cHer niece started dating the girl from across the street. It was beautiful to see and share and support, and I was always photographing them,\u201d Schorr remembers. \u201cPhotography is a strange brew,\u201d she says. \u201cYears later, family pressures created rifts. The pictures are a treasure, but maybe also led to some stress.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"2d8d538a-94a0-4be5-b812-b44f00ee432f\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445495.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.42\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KUTT\" class=\"img\" height=\"1417\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1600\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445495.jpg\" width=\"2008\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Vol 3 Emmeline and Marlous by Viviane <span class=\"nowrap\">Sassen, 2003<\/span><\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of KUTT <span class=\"nowrap\">and IDEA<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><em><span>KUTT<\/span><\/em><span>\u2019s aesthetic of ease is remarkable. Its look is inimitable because it was not really manufactured in the first place. Mulder\u2019s <\/span><em><span>Mattress Series<\/span><\/em><span> is erotic rather than pornographic, and not without the tender impishness of an adolescent sleepover. The first two images were of Mulder and her then-girlfriend: while on holiday, they took Polaroids of each other in bed \u2013 or, rather, on it. The intimate set-up reframes the images almost entirely. Knowing they were shot through the lens of lovers makes their headless bodies feel alive again, freed from the objectification of the male gaze.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When there was little lesbian visibility, <\/span><em><span>KUTT<\/span><\/em><span> filled a gap in the landscape. Much of the project was about \u201ctalking from a lived experience\u201d, Gysel says, addressing \u201cwhat it means to be a lesbian: how do you deal with your exes? How do you build relationships? How do you come out?\u201d Gysel was particularly interested in lives \u201coutside of the spotlight\u201d. \u201cSo much work is done there that goes unnoticed. Like in the Aids crisis, so many lesbians did so much work,\u201d she says. These stories about regular women were crucial to a fuller representation of lesbian life, showing that queer lives are ordinary and varied. These women love, work, hang out, write, play and have sex.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em data-start=\"299\" data-end=\"305\">KUTT<\/em> was really curious about the peculiar and the specific of each person,\u201d Mulder says. At the core of the project was a desire to be as honest as possible \u2013 an impulse Gysel also found in Eileen Myles\u2019s writing. She describes Myles\u2019s work as \u201can honest story of their struggles; the alcohol, drug problems,\u201d adding, \u201cI was also not very sober in those days, so I could click.\u201d When Gysel met Myles a few years ago, the two spent the day together, going for lunch and attending a pro-Palestine demonstration. \u201cIt was so fun,\u201d Gysel says. Myles, contacted for comment, offers a neat encapsulation of why <em data-start=\"906\" data-end=\"912\">KUTT<\/em> remains so compelling: \u201chonesty is the most attractive quality in a living thing.\u201d Like Myles\u2019s writing, <em data-start=\"1018\" data-end=\"1024\">KUTT<\/em> does not beat around the bush.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"89b56b33-f503-4be6-b5c7-b44f00ee37c2\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445489.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.42\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KUTT\" class=\"img\" height=\"2118\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1600\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445489.jpg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Vol 1: Photography by Nienke Bakker and Martien <span class=\"nowrap\">Mulder, 2002<\/span><\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of KUTT <span class=\"nowrap\">and IDEA<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\">\n<div class data-turn-id-container=\"c549847c-3336-4dac-885c-7d979bb314c1\" data-is-intersecting=\"true\">\n<div class=\"relative w-full overflow-visible\">\n<div class=\"contents\"><span>For Myles, publications like <\/span><em data-start=\"29\" data-end=\"35\">KUTT<\/em><span> remain \u201cculty ways of sharing information \u2013 conversations, pictures, drawings\u2026 most importantly, they are cause for a party. Since about the 90s, parties and art events are about the only queer trans gatherings that occur other than political actions or memorials.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class data-turn-id-container=\"request-6a01c127-a2a8-83eb-bfe6-38d41d6a454f-7\" data-is-intersecting=\"true\">\n<div class=\"relative w-full overflow-visible\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"db1e9734-68ee-4fcc-b356-37f6e3f2472f\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-5-thinking\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert wrap-break-word w-full light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p data-start=\"303\" data-end=\"1091\" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node><em><span>KUTT<\/span><\/em><span>\u2019s closure in 2003 was not abrupt, but considered. By then, those involved felt the magazine had run up against the limits of its own format. \u201cMaybe in the end, it felt too much like a derivative and I think Gysel was sensitive to that, and we were sensitive to that as well,\u201d van Bennekom says. Gysel felt similarly. \u201c<\/span><em><span>KUTT<\/span><\/em><span> didn\u2019t fully represent lesbian culture as it was at that moment,\u201d she reflects. \u201cI felt we first had to make something that had more visibility, that was a bit more uplifting.\u201d The straight-shooting sexual aspect \u2013 so central to <\/span><em><span>BUTT<\/span><\/em><span> \u2013 \u201cwas quite hard to translate to a lesbian context,\u201d Gysel says. Van Bennekom agrees that \u201clots of lesbian culture was left a little bit in the shadows\u201d, adding, \u201cit\u2019s always hard to create a world that doesn\u2019t exist yet. I think the format of the magazine was sort of invented for the gay male identity. And maybe less so for the lesbian woman.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt feels very far away, in a way,\u201d says Gysel, reflecting on what the return of <em data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"87\">KUTT<\/em> means. \u201cI have mixed feelings about it. I have fond memories of the time making it. The aftermath, I&#8217;m not so sure\u2026 the fact that we were women, we didn&#8217;t have all the chances that <em data-start=\"269\" data-end=\"275\">BUTT<\/em> had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maybe now, van Bennekom suggests, people are more ready and willing to engage with something as honestly queer as <em data-start=\"397\" data-end=\"403\">KUTT<\/em>. Maybe its \u201cin-your-face visibility\u201d will resonate with another generation. \u201cWe\u2019re living in a much more feminine moment than 25 years ago,\u201d he observes. \u201cI think that\u2019s a big shift. Also, the cis gay male world is 200% more feminine than it was, because there was always a bit of a stigma around femininity. And now femininity, it&#8217;s very much embraced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>As Sevigny says, \u201cIt is a nice object, and it is important.\u201d Sparse and coolly understated, this may sum it up. <\/span><em><span>KUTT<\/span><\/em><span>\u2019s photography and design alone are enrapturing; the magazine as a whole is something more. It is as much about sex as it is about love, as much about love as daily life, as much about daily life as cult celebrity, and as much about cult celebrity as erotic comics. As Gysel wrote in the magazine\u2019s reprint, \u201cIt took 25 years to get here! Long live the lesbians!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>KUTT <em>is published by IDEA and is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ideanow.online\/blogs\/superbooks\/kutt?srsltid=AfmBOorcjPZ9xog9Iy1ERu3OTwMh062jqNF9J83lMZRc0vO8OCptpL7t\">here<\/a> now.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/article\/70291\/1\/kutt-idea-books-lesbian-magazine-oos-chloe-sevigny-collier-schorr&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1190\/128-274-1190-793\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/5\/1445486.jpg&#8221;] Courtesy of KUTT and IDEA DateInMeta\u00a0 19,\u00a0 2026 Art &amp; Photography \/ Longread Inside KUTT, the cult lesbian 00s magazine Featuring the likes of Chlo\u00eb Sevigny with photography by Ryan McGinley, Collier Schorr, Viviane Sassen, and more, all three rare issues of KUTT are being republished as one volume May\u00a0 19,\u00a0 2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,76],"class_list":["post-1943541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-dazeddigital-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1943541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1943541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1943541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1943541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}