On 4 January 1971, Ti-Grace Atkinson delivered a talk entitled ‘Strategy and Tactics: A Presentation of Political Lesbianism’. The talk was later published in her collected essays, Amazon Odyssey. The essay contains thirty-five diagrams: ten ‘Strategy Charts’, three ‘Tactical Charts’ and twenty-two ‘Tactical-Strategy Charts’, which map a strategy of the ‘Oppressor’ (men) and the tactics that the ‘Oppressed’ (women) might develop to lead to a revolution – lesbians, significantly, are the ‘Buffer Zone’ between these two classes. In the only reference I have managed to find to these diagrams, they are referred to as ‘crazy’. This article re-visits these diagrams, exploring the role of the diagram in how Atkinson attempts to map patriarchal relations and also imagine a feminist revolution. Taking Atkinson’s diagrams as a starting point, the article then uses them to begin to narrate a genealogy of the diagram in feminist theory, exploring a diagrammatic imaginary that is an often-used but rarely discussed tactic in feminist writing. Finally, the article opens out to consider how this history of feminist diagrams might be a precursor to more contemporary feminist data visualisations.

1971年1月4日，蒂格蕾丝·阿特金森（Ti-Grace Atkinson）发表了题为“战略与策略：政治女同性恋主义的介绍”的演讲。演讲后来发表在她收集的文章《亚马逊奥德赛》中。本文包含35张图表：十张“策略图表”，三张“战术图表”和二十二张“战术图表”，它们描绘了“压迫者”（男人）的策略和“压迫者”的策略（女性）可能会引发一场革命–女同性恋者显然是这两类人之间的“缓冲区”。在我设法找到的这些图表的唯一参考文献中，它们被称为“疯狂”。本文将重新审视这些图表，探讨该图表在阿特金森尝试绘制父权关系以及想象女性主义革命中的作用。本文以阿特金森的图为起点，然后使用它们来开始描述女权主义理论中的图谱，探索一种图解虚构的东西，这是女权主义写作中经常使用但很少讨论的策略。最后，