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Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Season Greetings!, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada
Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Season Greetings!, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada
Newsletters
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Degoosh, Milo, May Hohman
Degoosh, Milo, May Hohman
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Milo Degoosh is a 28 year old FTM transgender adult. He works at Bard Coffee Shop in Portland, and competes in National Barista competition. He elaborates on how the Queer community has influenced the Barista competition and how he is a Queer figure in this environment. Milo has two moms and big family, all of which have helped him in his transition. He started hormones in 2015 and has had many changes since, such as mood, attitude, and work ethic. Milo participating in the National Campaign for Marriage Equality by knocking on doors. The necessity and cost for transition …
Beck-Poland, Sherry, Ariana Wenger, Johnna Ossie
Beck-Poland, Sherry, Ariana Wenger, Johnna Ossie
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Sherry Beck-Poland is 64 years old and lives in Lewiston, Maine with their wife Dee, and two sons, Jacob and Joe. Sherry has dedicated much of their life helping others including fostering over ten children, adopting their two sons, working for DHHS with individuals with PTSD, personality disorders, and other disabilities, as well as their involvement with political activism for marriage equality, and their help in organizing pride in Lewiston.
Sherry has attended the University of Southern Maine for their undergraduate degree where they graduated with honors, then attended Seminary where they received their master’s degree in theology. Sherry is …
A Community In Motion: Preventing Trauma And Abuse Where We Are [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Women's And Gender Studies Program.
A Community In Motion: Preventing Trauma And Abuse Where We Are [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Women's And Gender Studies Program.
Women’s and Gender Studies Program Documents
No abstract provided.
Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada
Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada
Newsletters
No abstract provided.
Fenton-Snell, Butch, Danielle Fraser, Jarod Wescot
Fenton-Snell, Butch, Danielle Fraser, Jarod Wescot
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Butch is 68 years old and was born in Youngstown Ohio, One of 6 children, Moved to Maine in 1980 to be with his husband. Family life was relatively normal for Butch in terms of coming out. However his father was not very emotionally available in general. Butch Knew he was gay from a very young age and did not feel as if he was ever confused about his sexuality. Butch later joined the military and was in the Vietnam War. Continued to move to different states and eventually ended up in Maine later becoming owner of Blackstones in Portland. …
Brushaber, Skip, Jack Barrett, Branden Pratt
Brushaber, Skip, Jack Barrett, Branden Pratt
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Skip Brushaber is a 71-year old gay man who uses he/his/him pronouns. Skip worked as a nurse and social worker during the AIDS crisis. He was born in Buffalo, New York, on January 9th, 1947. Skip studied English in college but later became a nurse and social worker. He lived in New York and Pennsylvania before moving to Portland in 1980. He helped found the AIDS Project in 1983, a group in Portland that helped support individuals dealing with AIDS, and founded and wrote for Our Paper throughout the 80s, an LGBTQ paper aimed at covering issues related to queerness …
Kawamoto, Eric, Cosette Holmes, Tiana Cope-Ferland
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.
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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 …
Mckenzie, Ellen, Caroline Wheeler, Marwa Ibrahim
Mckenzie, Ellen, Caroline Wheeler, Marwa Ibrahim
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
This interview features Ellen McKenzie, an African-American lesbian woman living in Portland, Maine. Having lived in Portland for almost her entire life, Ellen can provide insight on growing up in one of the only black families in her community, the intersections between race and sexuality, co-parenting children from a spouse’s previous marriage and generally navigating the world and her career as a queer woman of color. Throughout this interview, we hear a lot about her childhood and her family’s history as civil rights activists in Maine, her relationship with her spouse and and co-parenting their children with both her spouse, …
Cusack, Ralph, Hannah Cain
Cusack, Ralph, Hannah Cain
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Ralph Cusack was born in Maine and has lived most of his life in the state. He is one of the founders of The Harbor Masters of Portland Maine, men’s leather club, and an active member of the leather community and a navy veteran. This interview covers his participation in the Harbor Masters of Portland, Maine, living through the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 80s, his participation in many years of gay pride events and the march on Washington in 1987, owning the gay bar Blackstones in Portland, ME, and his service in the US Navy.
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Hopkins, Susan, Ysanne Bethel
Hopkins, Susan, Ysanne Bethel
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Susan Hopkins is a 53-year-old member of the LGBTQIA community, living in Westbrook, Maine. Susan grew up with her family on the small island of Vinalhaven in Penobscot Bay, hearing tales of her anti-racist bisexual aunt. A self-identified feminist in her adolescence, Susan recognized that she was not straight early on, but did not feel safe to come out in her small community. Going to the University of Maine, Orono, Susan experienced her first lesbian relationship and taste of chosen family. Eventually, Susan found herself at the Howard University School of Law, where she interned at Whitman Walter Clinic in …
Leveille, Lee, Student Interviewer
Leveille, Lee, Student Interviewer
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Lee Leveille is a 30-year-old Californian transplant that grew up in Sumner and Greene, ME. S/he works as an intentional peer support specialist in central Maine and is currently finishing up his/her bachelor’s in Psychology and Community Studies at the University of Maine at Machias. S/he is an active member of his/her local synagogue after beginning the conversion process to Judaism in 2016.
Lee considers him/herself to be a transgender butch, or someone who lives simultaneously as both a butch woman and transman. His/her pronouns are thus conditional in order to provide him/her with the flexibility to adapt to different …
Elias, Richard, Benjamin Cornwall
Elias, Richard, Benjamin Cornwall
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Richard Elias grew up in Northern Maine and moved to Portland at a young age. In this interview, we discuss: coming out as a gay man, his family life, his experience with Portland gay bars (The Phoenix, Roland’s and Blackstones), some of his travel stories, his love for dancing, and the effect of the AIDS epidemic on his life.
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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 Maine, University of Southern Maine Libraries.
For more information about the Querying the Past: …
Ward, Jeffrey, Benjamin Cornwall
Ward, Jeffrey, Benjamin Cornwall
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Jeffrey Ward, from Northern Maine, talks about his experience interacting with the Portland LGBTQ community and his experience coming out as a gay man at the age of 47. Some subjects include: his experience with the Casco Gay Men group, Portland Pride Parade, The Front Porch, Blackstones, his involvement in the Methodist Church, his family life, and how he met his partner of 16 years.
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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 Maine, University of Southern Maine Libraries.
For more …
Maceachern, Meredith, Skylar Hebert, Emma Chapin
Maceachern, Meredith, Skylar Hebert, Emma Chapin
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Meredith MacEachern is a 25 year old graduate of Acadia University in Canada, and has completed the Stonecoast MFA program. The only child of two archeologists, Meredith spent her childhood in Canada and South Africa, with most of her middle and high school years in Brunswick, Maine. She is passionate about activism for the indigenous populations of Canada, and uses her voice as a writer to speak about stigma towards psychosis and mental illness. She is hoping to move back to Canada in the next year and act as a supporter of justice for indigenous peoples.
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Implicit Bias: Unconscious Associations Influenced By Experience [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Women's And Gender Studies Program.
Implicit Bias: Unconscious Associations Influenced By Experience [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Women's And Gender Studies Program.
Women’s and Gender Studies Program Documents
No abstract provided.
Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada
Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada
Newsletters
No abstract provided.
The Clothesline Project [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Women's And Gender Studies Program.
The Clothesline Project [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Women's And Gender Studies Program.
Women’s and Gender Studies Program Documents
No abstract provided.
Quezada, Alzenira, Wendy Chapkis
Quezada, Alzenira, Wendy Chapkis
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Alzenira Quezada, also known as Lady Zen, is a queer artist, singer and performer. Quezada was born to Brazillian parents and raised by white adoptive parents who were members of the Church of the Nazarene, a branch of evangelical Christianity. She was cut off by her adoptive parents when she came out at 17. She studied music at Evergreen College in Washington State. She grew up in Arkansas and spent many years in Portland, Maine before moving to Mexico where she currently resides. Quezada owns a production company in Mexico and also works at a queer run bar. Her current …
Teaching And Managing Faculty-Student Interactions As An International Faculty Member [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Women's And Gender Studies Program.
Teaching And Managing Faculty-Student Interactions As An International Faculty Member [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Women's And Gender Studies Program.
Women’s and Gender Studies Program Documents
No abstract provided.
Hart, Bunny, Johnna Ossie
Hart, Bunny, Johnna Ossie
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Frederica 'Bunny' Hart was born in 1930. She spent the first nine years of her life living with her grandparents in Boston. Her mother died when she was three. When she was nine her father remarried and the family moved to Newton Center. She graduated from Junior College in 1950 where she studied History and English. From there, she traveled to New York City to look for work. Bunny first started dating women in the 1950s while she was living in New York. She worked as a stage manager in NYC in a time where it was very difficult for …
Feminism In Music & Film, Alexandra Callaway, Keila San Pedro, Jili "Gigi" Chen
Feminism In Music & Film, Alexandra Callaway, Keila San Pedro, Jili "Gigi" Chen
Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive
No abstract provided.
No Means No, Payton Miller, Sydney Mcafee, Kait Kenyon
No Means No, Payton Miller, Sydney Mcafee, Kait Kenyon
Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive
No abstract provided.
Women Proudly Roaring Their Feminist Ideas, Juliana Tarallo, Lia Weed, Jessica Gibbons
Women Proudly Roaring Their Feminist Ideas, Juliana Tarallo, Lia Weed, Jessica Gibbons
Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive
No abstract provided.
Women & Healthcare, Phybie Le, Paige Goedderz, Jerry Hu, Vafa Fanaii
Women & Healthcare, Phybie Le, Paige Goedderz, Jerry Hu, Vafa Fanaii
Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive
No abstract provided.
More Than A Woman, Dalal Alfaris, Madison Park, Caitlin Dinh, Jasmine Mares
More Than A Woman, Dalal Alfaris, Madison Park, Caitlin Dinh, Jasmine Mares
Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive
No abstract provided.
Reproductive Justice, Lucy Ebers, Mia Fowler, Amy Magsam, Olivia Schroeder
Reproductive Justice, Lucy Ebers, Mia Fowler, Amy Magsam, Olivia Schroeder
Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive
No abstract provided.
Why We Don't "Just Smile", Tory Allen, Taylor Mavroudis, Amber Skytte
Why We Don't "Just Smile", Tory Allen, Taylor Mavroudis, Amber Skytte
Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive
No abstract provided.
Untamed, Corinne Tam, Kyla Stone, Norma Mendoza
Untamed, Corinne Tam, Kyla Stone, Norma Mendoza
Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive
No abstract provided.
Relationships The Feminist Way, Grace Henderson, Elizabeth Rebello, Maddie Fabricant
Relationships The Feminist Way, Grace Henderson, Elizabeth Rebello, Maddie Fabricant
Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive
No abstract provided.