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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.

Posted on September 11, 2023 Posted in Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with abortions, adoption, Alachua General Hospital, Amazon Opera, Amelia Earhart, Amelia’s, Ann Gill, artificial insemination, Arts in Medicine, Barbara Esrig, Carol Aubin, Cassadaga, Cheryl LaMay, childbirth, Clair Englander, Connie Jylanki, Corky Culver, Dotty Faibisy, Eloise Page, Eugene Oregon, Flash Silvermoon, Gail Atkins, Gainesville Florida, Gainesville Women’s Health Center, Gerry Green, Gwen Demeter, home birth, Jewish religion, Joan McTigue, La Leche, Lamaze, lay midwives, lesbian seders, lesbian variety show, Linda Wilson, Lynda Lou Simmons, Marcia Zeimer, Marilyn Mesh, Megan, midwifery, New York City, oral histories, Pam Smith, Practical nurse, Randi Cameon, registered nurse, RN, Ruth Segal, Sallie Ann Harrison, San Francisco, Sandy Cosgrave, Sandy Malone, segregated hospital, Shands Hospital, the Red House, turkey baster, Wild Iris, Womonwrites, writer in residence

Sonja Franeta: Writer, Translator, Educator, and Socialist Workers Party Candidate for Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama

Sonja Franeta

Sonja Franeta, born in New York City of immigrant parents, ran for mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, on the Socialist Party ticket in 1983.

Posted on September 8, 2023 Posted in Social and Political Groups, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services Tagged with Argentina, Berkeley, Birmingham Alabama, Bronx, civil rights activism, coal miners union, comparative literature, Gulfport Public Library, journeyman machinist, Lesbians WriteOn, mayoral candidate, National Organization for Women, New York City, New York University, Pathfinder Press, Pink Flamingos, ReadOut, Russian language, San Francisco Bay Area, Serbo-Croatian, Slavic ethnicity, Socialist Workers Party, Soviet Union, St. Petersburg Florida, translator, Ukraine, United Mine Workers of America, Wheeled Mobility Center, Yugoslavia

Mindy Dyke: Leaving New York and Finding the Miami Dykes

Mindy Dyke sought out the dykes when she moved from the Bronx to Miami when she was twenty-two, and did she ever find them!

Posted on May 22, 2023 Posted in Social and Political Groups Tagged with A Few Loving Women, Anita Bryant, Bagelgrams, Berkeley Women’s Music Collective, Blackie’s, Bronx, Carol Cotton, Charlotte Brewer, Cherry Grove, Connie L, Connie R., Deanna, Flash Silvermoon, Florida, Friday Night Womyn’s Group, Helise Dubnick, Jack Campbell, Judy Thayer, Lavender Jane Loves Women, Lele, Lesbian Art Show, Lesbian Bizarre, Lesbian Feminist Liberation, Lesbian Pride Week, Lesbian Switchboard, Lesbian task Force of NOW, Lilly Harris, Linda Shear, Lou Rivers, Louise Griffin, Lucy and Martha Wilde, Mary Sims, Maryanne Powers, Miami, Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, Miller Lake, Morgana MacVicar, National Organization for Women, New York City, Pandora Lightmoon, Patti Jo West, Ramona, Sandy McFarlane, Save Our Children, Something Special, The Firehouse, the Lesbian Liberation Committee (LLC) of the Gay Activist Alliance (GAA), the Pagoda, Tops, Tropical Park, women’s music, Women’s Preservation Society, womyn’s music, x-ray technician, Zum Alten Fritz

Bonnie Netherton: Traveling a Winding Path to Women’s Community

Bonnie Netherton in the rowboat she used to travel back and forth to her Chinese junk, Ming Meng

The very best years of my life were the years that I lived on the water, on the boat. I think of those years as the best, the best I ever lived.

Posted on January 30, 2023 Posted in Lesbian Land Groups Tagged with ALFA, Atlanta, Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance, Barbara Deming, Barbara Deming Money for Women Fund, Barbara Lieu, Blue Lunden, Bonnie Netherton, Chicago, Chinese junk, Coast Guard, consciousness raising groups, feminist lawyer, Florida, Frances Pici, Ft Lauderdale, Gainesville, Georgia, Harriett Green, Hurricane Wilma, Jewish, joint custody, Key West, LaGuardia Airport, Latvia, Lavender Lieu, Lesbian Connection, lesbian hotel, Manhattan, Margie Pitts Hames, Mermaid Inn, Mexico, Mickey Alberts, Ming Meng, Mobile Alabama, Morgana, New Orleans, New York City, New Yorker, Pagoda, Pearls, Pici, pograms, Rainbow Williams, real estate license, Red Dyke Theatre, San Francisco, Sandy Hagan, school bus, scooter, Skyler Maxwell, St Simons Island, Star, storm surge, Sugarloaf Community, Sugarloaf Key, Sugarloaf Womens Village, Wilma, Womens Peace Walk

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

Sonja Franeta: Writer, Translator, Educator, and Socialist Workers Party Candidate for Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama

Mindy Dyke: Leaving New York and Finding the Miami Dykes

Bonnie Netherton: Traveling a Winding Path to Women’s Community