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Hine, Rook, Ty Bolduc

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

Rook Hine is a 47-year-old transfemme non-binary person from Connecticut. In this interview, Hine describe their life experiences, from challenges in her household, zir benefits and complications within education, and finding their identity as ze grew up. They discuss masking, performing arts as an outlet for gender expression, activism in college and beyond. Ze also mentions developing their non-binary identity, use of the term metagender, polyamory, and internalized transphobia, as well as adventures around the country - attending Sarah Lawrence College in New York, spending time in New Orleans as a tarot card reader, stripper, and phone sex operator after …

Amjambo Africa! (May 2022), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In this Issue Moonglade .............................2/3

Boys and Girls Club program .4

Color of Climate .......................5

Kwibuka..................................... 6

New Voices ................................7

Financial literacy ...........8-11/33

Market Basket ...................14/15

Karkangee drink

Coffee in Burundi

rice in Maine

Update from Augusta ............16

Revolution from Afar ............17

On being Black ......................18

Armenian genocide ...............18

Scots-Irish immigrants ..........19

Community happenings ..20/21

Photos from community events Tips & Info .............................. 22

Health&Wellness. ..............24-31

Sexually Transmitted disease

Tuberculosis

Ask the doctor In english & translation

Columns ..................................32

Professional Development .....33

Arts Section .......................34/35

land of Peace

ebenezer Akakpo

Maine Humanities Council

Moon in Full book release

Racism in …

Mccormick, Dale, Wendy Chapkis

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

In this interview, Dale McCormick discusses her early life in New York City and in Iowa City. She describes a college era lesbian relationship that, when discovered by her mother, led to several years of failed psychiatric conversion therapy. McCormick describes the vibrant second-wave feminist community in Iowa City of the 1960s and 1970s and the role anti-(Vietnam)war activism played in her life. She discusses in detail the process of becoming a union carpenter apprentice and the harassment she faced as the only woman on construction crews. With the publication of her book “Against the Grain, a Carpentry Manual for …

August 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

Newsletter Archive

Contents: From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Stan Tetenman,Community Notices

The Free Press Vol 51, Issue 2, 09-16-2019, Alyson Peabody

Free Press, The

Residential Life changes occupancy priorities--USM Libraries join The Open Textbook Network--New distracted driving law in Maine--New parking policies on campus

Elze, Diane, Wendy Chapkis

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

Diane Elze is and has been an active member of the LGBTQ community in Portland, Maine for many years. Diane has spent most of her adulthood and professional life participating in activism and advocacy for LGBTQ adolescents. She was involved with the Wilde Stein club at the University of Maine at Orono, where she also founded the Greater Bangor Rape Crisis Center. After being unable to find a job in the Bangor area, Diane moved to Portland where she began working with the MLGPA, the Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and taking a leadership role with Outright, among many other …

Amjambo Africa! (April 2019), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In This Issue...

Editorial: Migration ................Page 3

Senegalese Storytelling .......Page 12

Time Away, Loren Hart Francis

Stonecoast MFA Theses and Capstones

Loren Francis planted himself squarely into his life in 2008, and looked around from there, trying to remember what the view was like from then: a time of building, music, creativity and expansiveness followed by an accident, panic attacks, and the deep rout of alcohol and drug addiction. He picks up the threads, tugging on them and letting them take him where they would back through his family tree to his Irish farmer grandparents on his mother’s side, and his British and Lebanese grandparents on his father’s. Music, addiction, family and entrepreneurism all play a salient part in his life …

Kawamoto, Eric, Cosette Holmes, Tiana Cope-Ferland

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

This interview with Eric Kawamoto reveals a journey of self-discovery in Chicago, L.A., Boston, and Portland; an intersection between being Asian American and being queer; and survival of AIDS as a result of reserve. Kawamoto places these personal themes among his account of the LGBTQ+ and Asian American communities’ overarching struggles, like the fight for domestic partnership benefits, representation of Asian American gay men, and spreading awareness about Japanese American internment in California.

Citation

Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Collection, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in …

College Connections Newsletter, Fall 2018, Cahs Dean's Office Staff

CAHS College Connections Newsletter

In this issue:

• Program Activities
• New Center for the Arts Project
• Alumni Notes

The Free Press Vol. 50, Issue No. 04, 10-01-2018, Julie Pike

Free Press, The

Public policy forum at USM -- Residential students sign petition for better food -- College advising for veterans could face funding cuts -- Free tuition part two: programs across the U.S. -- Student discounts

Raw, Roast Or Half-Baked? Hogarth’S Beef In Calais Gate, Piers Beirne Phd

Department of Criminology

Scholars of human–animal studies, literary criticism and art history have paid considerable attention of late to how the visual representation of nonhuman animals has often and sometimes to great effect been used in the imagining of national identity. It is from the scrutinies of these several disciplines that the broad backcloth of this article is woven. Its focus is the neglected coupling of patriotism and carnism, instantiated here by its deployment in William Hogarth’s painting Calais Gate (1749). A pro-animal reading is offered of the English artist’s exhortation that it is in the nature of ‘true-born Britons’ to consume a …

May 2018, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

Newsletter Archive

Contents: Café Shalom; From the Rabbi; Presidents Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices; Food,Film and Commentary; Passover Seder Success

College Connections Newsletter, Spring 2018, Cahs Dean's Office Staff

CAHS College Connections Newsletter

In this issue:

• 2018 Commencement
• Annual CAHS Scholarship Awards Event
• Program Activities
• Student and Alumni Notes

O'Day, Janet, Johnna Ossie

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

Janet O'Day is 71 years old. She lives in Maine with her wife, Rosemary. She has one adult son. She was raised in a Catholic Family in Quincy, Massachusettes. She came out later in life after being married to a man and having a son. Religion is important to Janet and she was involved with Dignity in Boston and Maine, an organization that provides Catholic Mass and religious support to Catholic LGBTQ people. Janet continues to stay involved in her church community. During the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Janet worked at the Deaconness hospital in Boston as a discharge nurse with patients …

The Free Press Vol. 49, Issue No. 4, 10-02-2017, Sarah Tewksbury

Free Press, The

Freedom of speech includes opinions you hate -- Right wing rally draws counter protestors in Augusta -- Woodbury Campus Center under construction -- New senator elected as senate thinks METRO and financial aid -- USM requested safety audit report suggests campus changes -- Changes to the MBA program continue to plague USM

One Bruised Apple, Stacie Mccall Whitaker

Stonecoast MFA Theses and Capstones

The Quinn Family is always moving, and sixteen-year-old Sadie is determined to find out what they’re running from. In yet another new neighborhood, Sadie is befriended by a group of teens seemingly plagued by the same sense of tragedy that shrouds the Quinn family. Sadie quickly falls for Trenton, a young black man, in a town and family that forbids interracial relationships. As their relationship develops and is ultimately exposed, the Quinn family secrets unravel and Sadie is left questioning all that she thought she knew about herself, her family, and the world.

Wearing Bare Feet, J. P. Schlottman

Stonecoast MFA Theses and Capstones

Wearing Bare Feet is a linked collection of wry short stories about a family of three on fictional Eel Island, three miles off the coast of Maine, an island that revolves around lobstering, tourism, billionaire movie stars, department store heirs, jewelry store heiresses, people who houseclean for snowbirds ... and the old, rich and entitled summer people who come back from Florida for the annual Fourth of July Parade, and then die. Because it is easier to die there. It is why the 13-mile-long "rock off America" has more ambulances per capita than anywhere else in New England.

It also …

The Free Press Vol. 48, Issue No. 9, 11-14-2016, Krysteana Scribner

Free Press, The

To much surprise, Trump elected next president of the United States -- USM to provide off-campus housing in Bayside apartments -- Silenced voices: members of the military during political upheaval -- Drills shows students need more safety training -- Protests break out across nation after Trump wins nomination

The Free Press Vol. 47, Issue No. 21, 04-25-2016, Krysteana Scribner

Free Press, The

Alumni band performs with two retiring professors -- The minds of USM showcase work at Thinking Matters -- Fourth annual day of electronic recycling -- Angus King joins climate change panel -- USM Chemistry Lab to Open Next Semester -- SGA: What you need to know about it -- Small businesses look for skilled lawyers

The Free Press Vol. 47, Issue No. 13, 02-01-2016, Krysteana Scribner

Free Press, The

Students gather to weigh options abroad -- Workshop aims to dispel stereotypes around disabilities -- Governor LePage suggests Lewiston and Auburn merge into one city -- Professor’s showcase vast knowledge in their field by publishing books -- Potential changes coming to USM after Board of Trustees meeting -- USM Socialists analyze world refugee crisis through discussion -- Could cost of books lead to more theft in campus store? -- Academic horizons expanding for interested students

When Lonesome Rains Come Close Inside, Mary Katherine Spain Mfa

All Student Scholarship

When Lonesome Rains Come Close Inside is a collection of short written works by Mary Katherine Spain. In “Out Shelby,” we witness the corrosive effects of familial co-dependency and manipulation in rural Kentucky and the struggles of its ten-year old female narrator, Laura Neil, as she tries to protect the one thing she can relate to: the family hound dog; “Take My Hand” is an urban caper that explores the dependency of strangers in the struggle for self-preservation and the comic relief such shenanigans can often yield; “Look for the Octopus” follows a loosely-tethered elementary school teacher named Penelope Richards …

The Free Press Vol. 47, Issue No. 05, 10-05-2015, Krysteana Scribner

Free Press, The

Bayside could be location for future Portland dorms -- Petition circling to bring a bar to Gorham campus -- MU initiative gets students involved in the community -- Sukkah constructed on campus for week long Jewish festival -- International Socialist Organization gets new club on campus -- 385 students opted out of vaccines this year at USM

The Free Press Vol. 47, Issue No. 01, 08-31-2015, Krysteana Scribner

Free Press, The

New president shares his vision for USM -- Sexual assault training necessary on campus -- Important information for incoming students: Everything you need to know about add/drop policies and bus schedules -- SHIP effective for all students August 1, 2015 -- Cummings trying to repair AAUP sanctions

The Free Press Vol 46 Issue 13, 01-19-2015, Sam Hill

Free Press, The

‘We are on the verge of being censured.’--Obama proposes two free years of community college--Enrollement continues to decline this semester--Former Maine AG makes case for immigration--USM professors help The Phoenix rise from the ashes--New dean to takover UMaine law school in July

The Free Press Vol 46 Issue 9, 11-17-2014, Sam Hill

Free Press, The

Admins continue to work on teach-out plan--Chronicling USM’s national media attention--USM combines student services for savings--USM Preservation Fund meets $10,000 goal--Student worries about value of her education--Transfer students unaware of budget crisis

The Free Press Vol 46 Issue 2, 09-15-2014, Sam Hill

Free Press, The

Group demands BoT move meeting back to USM--Faculty concerned about budget cut timeline--Work-study awards offered to the waitlisted--LePage a no-show for energy forum at USM--Health insurance required

English Department Newsletter 2014, English Department, University Of Southern Maine

Department of English Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Free Press Vol 45 Issue 14, 02-03-2014, Kirsten Sylvain

Free Press, The

Tar sands oil debate hits Portland campus--Direction Package Board nears next phase--Officials discuss active shooter policies--Students to urge Board to go green

The Free Press Vol 45 Issue 9, 11-11-2013, Kirsten Sylvain

Free Press, The

Students have mixed reactions to renovations--Direction Package Board holds first meeting--USM’s labs to get a makeover thanks to Q2--Senate and Chancellor discuss hiring issues--Legislators and students to discuss education--Student profile: Shadiyo Hussainali shares her aspirations--“Politics Then and Now” becomes a “then”