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Group 1: Lisbet Tellefsen
Lisbet Tellefsen Papers (GEN MSS 1431), Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Link to the Archives at Yale finding aid for the collection.
Overview of the collection: Materials created and collected by Lisbet Tellefsen (born 1961). Many of the materials center around the creation of Aché, which was first issued in 1989 as a journal and existed as a collective in the Bay Area until 1994. The rest of the materials generally relate to allied groups and other events that Tellefsen participated in and helped to organize, such as the National Black Gay and Lesbian Conference's Video Project. Tellefsen--a political activist, feminist, and community organizer--is a Bay Area native who co-founded Aché along with Pippa Fleming, and has worked as an editor, recording engineer, and producer, receiving a number of awards for her service to the lesbian and gay community.
Collection material used in class session:
May 2012 Accession, Box 1, Folder: Aché , correspondence received, circa 1990-1997.
May 2012 Accession, Box 1, Folder: Correspondence, Audre Lorde, circa 1989-1991.
May 2012 Accession, Box 1, Folder: ULOAH: United Lesbians of African Heritage, circa 1991-1999.
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Keller started the Bay Area Lesbian Archives in 2014. The organization’s massive collection isn’t just a place for exhibits, but also teaches archiving workshops and hosts community meetings.
The co-curators of the archives announced Keller’s death on December 17. The group said this is a “profound loss to our community.”
Founder of Bay Area Lesbian Archives dedicated her life to documenting queer communities of color
“Lenn Keller was an extraordinary person who touched many lives,” they wrote in a Facebook post. “A proud butch lesbian, Lenn was committed and determined to preserve and protect lesbian history in the Bay Area. We will miss her deeply.”
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Trans Sistas of Color Project Detroit: Exists to uplift, impact and influence that lives and welfare of transgender women of color in Detroit.
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Black Trans Fund: The first national fund in the country dedicated to uplifting and resourcing Black trans social justice leaders. BTF seeks to address the lack of funding for Black trans communities in the U.S. through direct grantmaking, capacity building support, and funder organizing to transform philanthropy.
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Black Trans Men Inc.: The first national nonprofit social advocacy organization with a specific focus on empowering African American transgender men by addressing multi-layered issues of injustice faced at the intersections of racial, sexual orientation, and gender identities.
SisTers/Brothers PGH: A transgender drop-in space, resource provider and shelter transitioning program based in Pittsburgh, PA.
Love Me Unlimited for Life: A catalyst that helps our transgender community members reach their goals and fulfill their potential through advocacy and outreach activities.
My Sistah's House Memphis: Designed to bring about social change within the Trans Community in Memphis, by providing a safe meeting space and living spaces for those who are most vulnerable in the LGBTQ+ community.
Black LGBTQIA Migrant Project: Builds and centers the power of Black LGBTQIA+ migrants through community-building, political education, direct services, and organizing across borders. BLMP is providing cash assistance to Black LGBTQ+ migrants and first generation people dealing with the impact of COVID-19.
Taja’s Coalition at St. James Infirmary: Empowers their community in navigating housing, medical services, legal services, and the workplace, as well as regularly training agencies in the SF Bay Area.
Marsha P. Johnson Institute: Helps employ black trans people, build more strategic campaigns, launch winning initiatives, and interrupt the people who are standing in the way of more being possible in the world for BLACK Trans people, and all people.
Black Trans Protestors Emergency Fund organized by Black Trans Femme in the Arts Collective : Supports Black trans protestors with resources like bail and medical care.
Black & Pink Bail Fund: A national prison abolitionist organization dedicated to dismantling the criminal punishment system and the harms caused to LGBTQ+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS who are affected by the system through advocacy, support, and organizing.
Black Visions Collective (MN): Black Visions Collective centers their work in healing and transformative justice principles and develops Minnesota’s emerging Black leadership, creating the conditions for long term success and transformation.
SNaPCo: A Black, trans-led, broad-based collaborative to restore an Atlanta where every person has the opportunity to grow and thrive without facing unfair barriers, especially from the criminal legal system.
Brave Space Alliance: Created to fill a gap in the organizing of and services to trans and gender-nonconforming people on the South and West Sides of Chicago, where very few LGBTQ advocacy networks exist.
Okra Project/Tony McDade and Nina Pop Mental Health Fund: Provides Black Trans people with quality mental health & therapy. Also addresses food security in Black trans communities.
House of GG: A nonprofit, founded by legendary trans activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, that is raising money to build a permanent home where Transgender people can come, feel safe, and be part of a growing network of Southern trans people who are working for social justice.
TGI Justice Project: TGI Justice Project is a group of transgender, gender variant and intersex people -- inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers -- challenging and ending human rights abuses committed against TGI people in California prisons, jails, detention centers and beyond.
Trans Women of Color Collective: TWOCC exists to create revolutionary change by uplifting the narratives, leadership, and lived experience of trans people of color.
Youth Breakout: BreakOUT! seeks to end the criminalization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth to build a safer and more just New Orleans, organizing with youth ages 13-25 who are directly impacted by the criminal justice system.
Translash: A trans-led project uses the power of individual stories to help save trans lives, shifting the cultural understanding of what it means to be transgender, especially during a time of social backlash, to foster inclusion and decrease anti-trans hostility.
TRANScending Barriers: A trans-led trans-issue focused organization whose mission is to empower the transgender and gender non-conforming community in Georgia through community organizing with leadership building, advocacy, and direct services.
My Sistah's House: A trans-led nonprofit providing first hand experience as well as field research to create a one-stop shop for finding doctors, social groups and safe spaces for the trans community, providing emergency shelter, access to sexual health services, and social services.
Dem Bois: A national organization with the mission to provide charitable economical aid for female to male, FTM, trans-masculine identified person(s) of color ages twenty-one years old and older for them to obtain chest reconstruction surgery, and or genital reassignment surgery in order to help them on their journey to live a more fulfilled physical, mental, and self-authentic life.
G.L.I.T.S: Approaches the health and rights crises faced by transgender sex workers holistically using harm reduction, human rights principles, economic and social justice, along with a commitment to empowerment and pride in finding solutions from our own community.
Emergency Release Fund: Aims to ensure that no trans person at risk in New York City jails remains in detention before trial; if cash bail is set for a trans person in New York City and no bars to release are in place, bail will be paid by the Emergency Release Fund.
HEARD: Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities: Supports deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, deafdisabled, and disabled (“deaf/disabled”) people at every stage of the criminal legal system process, up to and including during and after incarceration.
Black Trans Advocacy Coalition COVID-19 Community Response Grant: Works daily to end discrimination and inequities faced in health, employment, housing and education to improve the lived experience of transgender people.
Princess Janae Place: Provides referrals to housing for chronically homeless LGBTQ adults in the New York Tri-state area, with direct emphasis on Trans/GNC people of color.
The Transgender District: Aims to stabilize and economically empower the transgender community through ownership of homes, businesses, historic and cultural sites, and safe community spaces.
Assata’s Daughters: A Black woman-led, young person-directed organization rooted in the Black Radical Tradition. AD organizes young Black people in Chicago by providing them with political education, leadership development, mentorship, and revolutionary services.
Collective Action for Safe Spaces: A grassroots organization that uses comprehensive, community-based solutions through an intersectional lens to eliminate public gendered harassment and assault in the DC area.
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Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition (Minneapolis, MN): is committed to improving health care access and the quality of health care received by trans and gender non-conforming people through education, resources, and advocacy.
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Transgender Emergency Fund of Massachusetts: recently helped organize a Trans Resistance Vigil and March through Boston, in place of the Boston Pride Parade that was cancelled due to COVID-19.
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San Francisco Pride parade, June, 1991. Lenn Keller. Collection of Bay Area Lesbian Archives
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I met with a lesbian archive yesterday about volunteering to start creating a filing system bc right now it’s just two Emeryville storage units crammed full of boxes and they were like “ok great! Can you come on Wednesdays and Thursdays?” to which I was obviously like well no, I have a full time job so really weekends are it for me. And they (3 older lesbians) were like Well we really like to have our weekends free 😒 I s2g something happens to the brains of Bay Area boomers who were super into 60s 70s and 80s counterculture/lefty organizing to make them forget that when someone is offering you their time and labor FOR FREE it’s really not on you to dictate the terms lol. I hate nonprofits!!! Still gonna volunteer if they can get a weekend shift going tho
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“Remembering Lenn Keller, founder of Bay Area Lesbian Archives A prominent activist, Keller chronicled the communities she was a part of, telling stories of joy and resistance.” Article here: https://oaklandside.org/2020/12/18/remembering-lenn-keller-founder-of-bay-area-lesbian-archives/?fbclid=IwAR1h6muhty4ZCTaYrE1ctNs219aTr5hZeb_cewmVGTB2KzFn_r7LMN6hNb0 #lennkeller #bayarealesbianarchives #blacklesbians https://www.instagram.com/p/CJCLj0wlxE3/?igshid=ivn4d61lcdi7
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“Over the last 30 years, we’ve seen the rise and fading back of a lesbian feminist movement. When I came into the community of lesbians as a baby dyke in the late 1970’s, the bay area was ground zero but lesbian movement was found literally everywhere – Madison, Lincoln, Nebraska, Chapel Hill NC, Cincinnati, Tallahassee, St. Louis, all were hotbeds of lesbian feminism in the 70’s.
Today, one would be hard pressed to identify lesbian centers in this clear a way.
The lesbian cultural movement was the backbone of our community – through this network of cultural workers, we built the modern lesbian community. The network of independent women producers, the coffehouses, the feminist bookstores, the tours that Olivia Records and Redwood records and Roadwork and other independent women’s producers organized were the vehicles through which we built a self-conscious lesbian culture.
This was a separatist culture initially – in the sense that its values were grounded in a singular focus on women, not men; and that it was aggressively against patriarchy in every form and against heterosexism in every form.
And it was an explicitly political and radical culture – you did not go to the Michigan women’s music festival to get marketed to by major corporations, but to get immersed in a sense of community. You went to see and be among thousands of other lesbians of every type and to hear messages from the stage that were political and progressive and feminist – messages which all expressed the interconnectedness of lesbian issues with social justice issues. We proclaimed to each other that we were warriors against racism, we marched against the US intervention in El Salvador in the 1980’s, we led the women’s peace actions at the arms depot in Seneca and a lesbian organized the million person march on the United Nations for nuclear disarmament in 1982. We were providing support to prisoners, and organizing labor unions, we were volunteering and building the battered women’s shelter network and the rape crisis centers and the women’s self help health movement; we were fighting with each other about sex and the role of sexuality in our culture and lives, we were fighting the right wing and the homophobic left wing.
...I would argue that the explicitly radical lesbian feminist mass movement collapsed in the mid-1980’s for two reasons. Because it could not support or sustain itself financially. And because the external realities of AIDS and the fights against the Right occupied the energies of lots of lesbian political activists. It could not support itself – women did not support the independents, the rigid politics of that era alienated many other women and they did not want to support the artists, a backlash against feminism (so beautifully detailed by Susan Faludi) affected our perception of our own brand of lesbian feminism….and changes in our community institutions resulted in the co-gendering of a previously all-male political movement…this co-gendering ironically happened in the context of an epidemic that disproportionately affected gay and bisexual men, and heterosexual women.
In the 1990’s, lesbian feminism has been nearly invisible, even as lesbians have become more culturally visible. So in 1993, KD Lang was on the cover of New York Magazine, Vanity Fair and a host of other publications and we were told this was the era of lesbian chic…Chastity, Candace, Ellen, Melissa and Julie, and other prominent dykes are out or have been outed in the worlds of entertainment as never before…and today more lesbian political leaders exist in our nation than openly gay men – from the wonderful Carole Migden to Sheila Keuhl to the scores of judges and openly lesbian elected and appointed officials throughout this state; the great Tina Podlodowski in Seattle’s City Council; the wonderful black lesbian Mary Morten who works as the Mayor’s Liaison to sexual minority communities in Chicago; Maine State Treasurer Dale McCormick; NYC City Councilwoman Margarita Lopez, and State Assemblywoman Deborah Glick; Former White House Assistant to the President Ginny Apuzzo, and current Deputy Chief of Staff Karen Tramantano – are just a few examples of lesbians in positions of political power.
Ironically, all this power and visibility have come at the same time that lesbian movement and movement building have collapsed – in other words we have made progress in visibility and political power not necessarily because of a formal organized effort on the part of dykes, but despite it.
In the 1990’s the institutions that served lesbians grew only modestly in power and influence, nor were new ones formed (the Lesbian Herstory Archives, National Center for Lesbian Rights, Lesbian Community Project, in Portland, and Astraea Foundation are examples of survivors who have continued against the odds. Indeed today only a handful of lesbian specific programs and projects exist around the country – most lesbian movement is found in the grassroots organizations of ad hoc lesbians who produce the nation’s dyke marches; or form lesbian avenger chapters. Lesbians are now a diaspora. Not a Movement.
Mainstream institutions like the one I work for [NGLTF], began to be increasingly run by lesbians or straight women, but are not necessarily feminist in their program – indeed today it is controversial to argue that we should not be a single-gay-rights- issue alone movement but one that screens politicians around their support for choice, and their positions on racial justice.
And the sense among lesbians of what constitutes our movement, what forms our agenda, radically shifted in the 1990’s to the present time – where I would argue that lesbians do not know what constitutes our issues, don’t know what we ought to do with our political energies, don’t know how to support each other and not working in a strong way to build a society that respects and values and cherishes women.”
—Urvashi Vaid, from “Notes on Lesbians, History and Philanthrophy.” Read the full article here.
#urvashi vaid#south asian lesbians#desi lesbians#indian lesbians#lesbian feminism#lesbian history#history#writing#lesbian herstory
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Queer California: Untold Stories April 13–August 11, 2019 at the Oakland Museum of California Image: Brown Rainbow Eclipse Explosion, 2017, Young Joon Kwak. Photo: Ruben Diaz @pingpongpaw , courtesy @commonwealthandcouncil Work by artists and collaborators including Absolute Empress III Shirley, Chloe Aftel, Laura Aguilar, Tina Valentin Aguirre, D-L Alvarez, Steven Arnold, Gilbert Baker, Lisa Ben, Andrea Bowers, Kaucyila Brooke, Ginger Brooks-Takahashi, Craig Calderwood, Pat Campano, Monica Canilao, Tammy Rae Carland, Cassils, Jerome Caja, Willy Chavarria, Kate Clark, Torreya Cummings, Amanda Curreri, Cyclona, Cecil Davis, Reed Erickson, Rhys Ernst, Edie Fake, Eve Fowler, William P. Gaddis Jr., Clay Geerdes, Rick Gerharter, James Gobel, Nicki Green, James Gruber, Barbara Hammer, Mick Hicks, William E. Jones, Lenn Keller, Joseph Richard Kapps, Young Joon Kwak, Vero Majano, DJ Brown Amy (Amy Martinez), Jaguar Mary, Helen Nestor, Yetunde Olagbaju, Kari Orvik, Frances Reid, Augie Robles, Peaches, Grace Rosario Perkins, Marlon Riggs, Nica Ross, Julio Salgado, Helen “Sanders” Sandoz, Jose Sarria, Patrick Staff, Chuck Stallard, Eric A. Stanley, A.L. Steiner, Elizabeth Stevens, Sylvester, Tina Takemoto, Xara Thustra, Wu Tsang, Chris E. Vargas, Lex Vaughn, Travis Y., and Cathy Zheutlin. Additional participants include L. Frank, Joseph Byron Jones, Miss Major, Toshio Meronek, Deborah A. Miranda, Donovan Nation, Kenny Ray Ramos, Kanyon Sayers-Roods, Kayla Strickland, and Karen Vigneault. Contributing archives include The American Philosophical Society; The Archives of the Archdiocese of San Francisco (AASF); Bay Area Lesbian Archives; California State Archives; The Collections of the Kinsey Institute, Indiana University; The Digital Transgender Archive; The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Historical Society; Lambda Archives; The Lesbian Herstory Archives; ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries; San Francisco Public Library; James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center; The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center; and Willard Library. Curated by Christina Linden @hotcorners (at Oakland Museum of California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BviSLVrl1Lf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=nb5az71pdl0l
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Group 6: Lisbet Tellefsen
Lisbet Tellefsen Papers (GEN MSS 1431), Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Link to the Archives at Yale finding aid for the collection.
Overview of the collection: Materials created and collected by Lisbet Tellefsen (born 1961). Many of the materials center around the creation of Aché, which was first issued in 1989 as a journal and existed as a collective in the Bay Area until 1994. The rest of the materials generally relate to allied groups and other events that Tellefsen participated in and helped to organize, such as the National Black Gay and Lesbian Conference’s Video Project. Tellefsen–a political activist, feminist, and community organizer–is a Bay Area native who co-founded Aché along with Pippa Fleming, and has worked as an editor, recording engineer, and producer, receiving a number of awards for her service to the lesbian and gay community.
Digitized collection material:
May 2012 Accession, Box 6, Folder 191: Aché layout, volume 1, number 10 (November 1989).
May 2012 Accession, Box 7, Folder 195: Aché layout, volume 2, number 3 (May/June 1990).
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OCTOBER 5: Lani Ka'ahumanu (1943-)
Happy 74th birthday to Lani Ka'ahumanu! The bisexual activist, editor of Bi Any Other Name, and the only bisexual speaker to speak at the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation was born on this day in 1943.
Lani photographed for The Out Words Archive (x).
Lani was born on October 5, 1943 in Edmonton, Canada to a white mother and a Japanese father. She grew up to marry her childhood sweetheart, a man with whom she had two children. Lani describes herself in the 1960s as having been “a full-time suburban housewife, Little League mom, and Another Mother for Peace.” That all changed in 1974 when Lani and her husband divorced and she left the suburbs for San Francisco, California. In those first few years in San Francisco, she came out as a lesbian, became the first member of her family to graduate from college, and became active in the social justice movements of the day. In 1980, her life changed once again when she realized she was bisexual and came out for a second time.
Lani marching in San Francisco’s 1984 Lesbian and Gay Freedom Day Parade holding signs that read “Biphobia Shield” and “Bi and Large” (x).
During the 1980s, Lani started creating a substantial bisexual community from the ground up with organizations such as BiPOL, BiNet USA and the San Francisco Bay Area Bisexual Network (BABN). In 1991, she co-edited the groundbreaking bisexual anthology Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out along with Loraine Hutchins, and in 1993 she led a successful campaign to get bisexual people included in the title of the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, of which she was also the only bisexual activist to speak. Lani was the very first bisexual person to be invited to join the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force board of directors. She is currently a member of the editorial board for The Journal of Bisexuality and is working on her next two books, My Grassroots Are Showing: Stories, Speeches, and Special Affections and Passing For Other: Primal Creams and Forbidden Dreams – Poetry, Prose, and Performance Pieces.
-LC
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