A roundtable on lesbian generations Rachel Corbman Arizona State University, USA Ann Cvetkovich University of Texas at Austin, USA Jack Jen Gieseking CUNY Graduate Center, USA Stacy Macias CSU Long Beach, USA Joan Nestle Lesbian Herstory Archives, USA Olivia R Polk University of Minnesota, USA SaraEllen Strongman University of Michigan, USA Mairead Sullivan Loyola Marymount University, USA Abstract The following written dialogue began as an intergenerational conversation, hosted by the lesbian feminist literary journal Sinister Wisdom, about Mairead Sullivan’s book Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer, and continued over a series of Zoom conversations in the spring of 2024. We discuss what the term lesbian means to Corresponding author: Rachel Corbman, Arizona State University, 4701 W Thunderbird Rd, Glendale, AZ 85306, USA. Email: rachelcorbman@gmail.com Special issue: Intergenerational feminisms Feminist Theory 1–21 © The Author(s) 2025 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/14647001251316096 journals.sagepub.com/home/fty