She currently resides in Australia with her partner.
Her other publications include Women on Women: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction and The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader. Nestle is the author of A Fragile Union (1998) and A Restricted Country (1988).
She helped launch the Gay Academic Union in 1972 and founded the Lesbian Herstory Archive in 1973, a rich collection of documents and memorabilia of lesbian history and culture. She was active in protesting against the House Un-American Activities Committee, the Vietnam War, segregation and apartheid, and supporting civil rights, women’s rights, and Gay Liberation. in English from NYU, she began to teach writing. After graduating from Queens College and receiving her M.A. Joan Nestle was born in the Bronx in 1940. Timecode outlines which provide more detail on topics covered in the interviews are available to researchers upon request.
Nestle also talks about the difficulty of being a lesbian in the 1950's through the 1970's and about discovering that she was a lesbian. In the second interview from 1992, Melissa Thomas talks to Joan Nestle about her writing career, her upbringing, her relationship with her mother and most especially her dear friend Mabel Hampton. She reflects on the negative and positive aspects of teaching a multicultural program in an all white environment, discusses her illness and the development of her writing career. Nestle details her experience with the Queens College SEEK community and her lesbian feminist community. In the first interview from 1991, Melissa Thomas talks to Joan Nestle about her role in the Queens College Seek Program the Lesbian Herstory Archives her writing career and her background as a Queens College student and as a lesbian and feminist.
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