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Laurel Ferejohn: Building Lesbian Community

Laurel Ferejohn at Table Rock Writers Workshop in 2018

A believer in the power of community-oriented periodicals, Laurel Ferejohn helped create the The Newsletter, a vital, lesbian underground publication.

Posted on October 30, 2023 Posted in Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Social and Political Groups Tagged with “Community Connections”, “The Newsletter”, 1986 Durham mayoral antirecall effort, antiracism discussion group, Chapel Hill town council, Duke University LGBT Task Force, Durham Human Relations Commission, Durham Lesbian Feminist Community, Durham Morning Fishwrap, Durham Morning Herald, Durham North Carolina, Ellen Hines, Ferron, first annual gay and lesbian pride march in Durham in 1986, homophobia, Jack Adams, Joe Hertzenberg, Laurel Ferejohn, Lesbian and Gay Health Project, Loli Oates, Louise Kessel, Mandy Carter, NARAL Pro-Choice America, OOP, Our Own Place, Raleigh, Raleigh News and Observer, Reproductive Freedom for All, Rick Kaspar, Roxanne Seagraves, Tracy Drach, Triangle Lesbian Gay Alliance, Trillium, U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, WRAL

Patricia R. Corbett: Girl in a Tie

Patricia R. Corbett with a framed poster for Fall of the House of Snow

It is my goal to fight harder for human rights than individual rights; and to leave a legacy of love and of the value of community service for my family.

Posted on October 3, 2023 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services Tagged with Aunt Maggies MoJo and the Devil Angel Brown, Black invisible lesbian, Black protest writers, Brown Girls in the Ring, civil rights activist, dramaturg, Fall of the House of Snow, Gladys Bentley, Goddard College, Harlem Renaissance, Harriet Jacobs, Jacqui Singleton, JustaSISTA, Maryland State Arts Council award, Patricia R Corbett, Perils of a Southern Black Woman: stories tales and nightmares told in the light, Phil Crosby, playwright, Rap Brown, Rev Linwood Corbett Sr, Richmond Triangle Players, Richmond Virginia, Sisters Rising Mentoring Organization, Stokely Carmichael, storytelling, transgender Barbie, Virginia Christian, Warehouse Theatre Washington DC, Why I Hate the Circus

Barbara Esrig: Writer, Oral Historian, Nurse, and Cook Extraordinaire

Barbara Esrig. Photo by Elizabeth Daneman and Tammy Bernard.

Barbara Esrig, a founding member of Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project, describes her work as a midwife, and her recovery from a near-fatal car accident.