Medusa is a lesbian icon. Medusa’s head enacts aesthetic judgment. In my version of the myth, Athena comes across as a cruel whyte bitch, on the level of a Camille Grammar. Who defends Brett Kavanaugh. Poseidon raped Medusa in Athena’s temple. And Athena punished Medusa for being raped—freezing her meaning in that terrifying moment of physical,ontological, and spiritual invasion. Athena cursed her beauty by morphing Medusa’s wavy locks into live snakes. But Medusa’s pricking mirada undulates with plurality, a Man-killer.Tentacular tendrils dentata, hydra-halo of many small eyes: what horrifies Man protectswomen. Which, in part, is why Medusa is reclaimed as a lesbian icon, where lesbian has to dowith women desiring women, yes, and as much to do with the role of queerly hot anti-herowho resignifies, disperses, and undoes the phallus in an episteme that punishes women for their desires and for Man’s bad behavior.