Lust Longing Love is the result of an ongoing conversation between artists Sue Williams and Marilyn Allen from which a series of critical questions relating to gender and identity emerge. Each page formulates a visual and textual discussion where issues of power and performativity are negotiated. The wilful voices of Williams and Allen are never opposed but rather offer different perspectives on what it is to live as a ‘woman’ in the 21st Century. Williams’ images are simultaneously endearing and confrontational and articulate the complexities of human relationships in a contemporary cultural context. Williams’ autoethnographic practice, using both visual and textual gestures, demonstrates a vulnerability which invariably elicits an affective response from its audience. In this book Williams’ visceral voice is in conversation with Allen’s playful objectivity. The narratives generated challenge the classification and codification of gender norms, serving to disrupt the legacy of heterosexual romanticism. The voices of the book’s two protagonists are identifiable by typeface; Williams’ autoethnographic voice is expressed through the artist’s handwritten musings while Allen’s cultural critique appears in an austere type suggestive of a journalistic aesthetic. Lust Longing Love is the result of a series of collaborative provocations and responses generated between Williams and Allen via email over a period of twelve months. This sustained conversation provided a space where personal and cultural narratives could coexist to enable a multifaceted discourse on cultural meanings inscribed and imposed upon the female body.