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Between Betty and Me: Art, Activism, and Accessibility

Between Betty and Me: Art, Activism, and Accessibility

Betty Bird with Ellie

Susan Robinson writes about her then partner Betty Bird, and tells the story of how she and others began a system for recording feminist journals like *Sinister Wisdom* and distributing those recordings through services for the blind.

Posted on August 19, 2024 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services Tagged with Atlanta, Betty Bird, blind, Blizzard, Catherine Nicholson, College of William and Mary, Columbia South Carolina, Commission for the Blind, Conditions, Connie Panzarino, Durham Chapel Hill, Eileen Pagan, exclusion from literary discussion, Feminary, Feminist Taping for Handicapped Readers, Free Matter for the Blind, Harriet Desmoines, Henri Cole, independent mobility, Jelly, Kady van Deurs, Kathy Hagar, lesbian journals on tape, library of Congress, Marj Schneider, minneapolis, Monticello, Nebraska, New York, New York City, New York Lighthouse for the Blind, North Carolina, off our backs, Peaches lesbian bar, planning meetings, print handicapped, Ramon, Recordings for the Blind, Shorty, Sinister Wisdom, southern lesbian writers, Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Susan Robinson, Susan Wood Thompson, The Me in the Mirror, The Paris Review, University of Texas, Vicki Gabriner, visual memory, Washington DC, Williamsburg Virginia, WomanWrites, Womomwrites, Womyns Braille Press

Mary Anne Adams, Champion for Change

Mary Anne Adams, Champion for Change

Mary Anne Adams

A dedicated woman’s journey, making her way from the segregated south, through the civil rights movement, into today’s complex lesbian feminist environment.

Posted on July 10, 2023 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian-Owned Enterprises, Social and Political Groups, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services Tagged with aging, Angela Denise Davis, Audre Lorde, Audre Lorde Scholarship Fund, Black Lesbians, Black nationalists, Black Student Union, blind, Community Engagement Core, Eddie Sandifer, feminist, First Existentialist Congregation, Frederica Sands, Gay Community News, intersectionality, LGBTQ, NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Organization of Black Lesbians on Aging, old lesbians organizing for change, OLOC, racism, Rev Lanier Clance, Rev. Wayne Johnson, Sister Harriet, Southern Rural Women’s Network, the Black House, Tougaloo College, Womonwrites, ZAMI, ZAMI NOBLA

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