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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

#lennkeller #bayarealesbianarchives #blacklesbians

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🧡🧡🧡 #rp @bayarealesbianarchives With a heavy heart we announce that BALA founder, Lenn Keller, has passed away at the age of 69. She died at home on December 16, 2020. Born Helen Lenora Keller September 29, 1951 in Evanston, Illinois, Lenn was a photographer, fierce lesbian and community organizer. Lenn came to the Bay Area in 1975 and began collecting documentation of lesbian events and existance everywhere. This became the foundation of the collection that started Bay Area Lesbian Archives. An online memorial will be held Jan. 31, 2021. Follow the Bay Area Lesbian Archives Facebook page for details. Donations in her honor can be made to BALA: https://www.bayarealesbianarchives.org Photo credit: Brittany Hosea-Small, Special to The Chronicle Article in SF Chronicle’s Datebook linked in bio. https://www.instagram.com/p/CJct1PCl-7X/?igshid=1x4qfy8g613u

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I heard you & got you Lenn. Don’t even trip!! Rest In Peace to a Legend 🔥 #LennKeller @bayarealesbianarchives #blacklesbianarchives #blacklesbians #lesbianhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CI6nd29FWib/?igshid=1frkpsp6373nd

#lennkeller #blacklesbianarchives #blacklesbians #lesbianhistory

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“After forming as a non-profit in 1992 The Aché Project debuted our first board.” - Lisbet Tellefsen For the month of July we will focus in on ACHÉ & how we can use this organization as a conduit (Oakland, CA 1992) for Grassroots organizing & community building through these current times. #2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #LisbetTellefsen @bayarealesbianarchives #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory https://www.instagram.com/p/CDSZZH3jRex/?igshid=122nxlyzrwnf0

#2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #lisbettellefsen #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory

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Would y’all be interested in creating a physical Black Lesbian Zine/Publication? Leave a comment below!! Seven months in, co-founder Pippa Fleming moved to London. Question: How do you publish a 44-pg. monthly journal by yourself? Answer: You don't--you call in some serious cavalry. This is what serious cavalry looks like. (photo by Annie Valva) Lisbet Tellefesen For the month of July we will focus in on ACHÉ & how we can use this organization as a conduit (Oakland, CA 1992) for Grassroots organizing & community building through these current times. #2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #LisbetTellefsen @bayarealesbianarchives #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory https://www.instagram.com/p/CDM6bNmDUao/?igshid=qlx2u2wxggq4

#2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #lisbettellefsen #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory

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How are y’all playing hard during these times? It’s finally Leo Season 🔥 have some fun. Enjoy some time in the Sun when you can 🌞 “We worked hard and played hard. The house parties were epic!” - Lisbet Tellefsen For the month of July we will focus in on ACHÉ & how we can use this organization as a conduit (Oakland, CA 1992) for Grassroots organizing & community building through these current times. #2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #LisbetTellefsen @bayarealesbianarchives #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory https://www.instagram.com/p/CC__G6kjbAz/?igshid=1jzo1543n4azp

#2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #lisbettellefsen #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory

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Tag a black lesbian artist ⚡️”Our first issue featured the poetry and artwork of Storme Webber @stormewebberapalimpsest” - Lisbet Tellefsen For the month of July we will focus in on ACHÉ & how we can use this organization as a conduit (Oakland, CA 1992) for Grassroots organizing & community building through these current times. #2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #LisbetTellefsen @bayarealesbianarchives #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory https://www.instagram.com/p/CC7CipMjvxH/?igshid=1b9uws2h2wc1u

#2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #lisbettellefsen #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory

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- Lisbet Tellefsen For the month of July we will focus in on ACHÉ & how we can use this organization as a conduit (Oakland, CA 1992) for Grassroots organizing & community building through these current times. #2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #LisbetTellefsen @bayarealesbianarchives #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory https://www.instagram.com/p/CCrGAQ_FpZJ/?igshid=19mtpx8r8sxnj

#2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #lisbettellefsen #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory

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How are y’all holding up? Cover artwork by Alicia Stiles - Lisbet Tellefsen For the month of July we will focus in on ACHÉ & how we can use this organization as a conduit (Oakland, CA 1992) for Grassroots organizing & community building through these current times. #2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #LisbetTellefsen @bayarealesbianarchives #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory https://www.instagram.com/p/CChPO-lDT4f/?igshid=1igbjbolgwqsy

#2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #lisbettellefsen #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory

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What are some words that give you power? “Slightly ambitious we thought: let's make it a free monthly!” Cover artwork by Tobe Correal. Lisbet Tellefsen For the month of July we will focus in on ACHÉ & how we can use this organization as a conduit (Oakland, CA 1992) for Grassroots organizing & community building through these current times. #2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #LisbetTellefsen @bayarealesbianarchives #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory https://www.instagram.com/p/CCZ5l4BjLeK/?igshid=17tvasw8wb0hn

#2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #lisbettellefsen #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory

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What’s the best lesbian publication you read over the years? “ACHÉ (a•chāy) from the Yoruba word ase/ashé] the breath that gives life, the-power-to-make-things-happen; literally “so be it” may it happen” For the month of July we will focus in on ACHÉ & how we can use this organization as a conduit (Oakland, CA 1992) for Grassroots organizing & community building through these current times. #2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #LisbetTellefsen @bayarealesbianarchives #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory https://www.instagram.com/p/CCFGiAXDU_N/?igshid=1ufafee7jokey

#2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #lisbettellefsen #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory

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Would y’all be interested in putting together a Black Lesbian Publication? “Despite knowing nothing about publishing, suddenly we've got a full-blown journal on our hands. Neither of us being particularly "literary", we considered this more of a "grassroots community publishing project..." For the end of June into July we will focus in on ACHÉ & how we can use this organization as a conduit (Oakland, CA 1992) for Grassroots organizing & community building through these current times. If you wanna join the #2swim (@2swim.plus) app, hit me up for the code 🎉 Lisbet Tellefsen #2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #grassroots #LisbetTellefsen @bayarealesbianarchives #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory https://www.instagram.com/p/CB4F5lIjdMq/?igshid=1jp8qhwjplavd

#2swim #2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #grassroots #lisbettellefsen #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory

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I hope everybody got all they needed out the Cancer New Moon Eclipse. My bad for the delay for video/website updates. Will have them up this week — Continuing our @2swim.plus conversations for the end of June into July we will focus in on ACHÉ @bayarealesbianarchives & how we can use this organization as a conduit (Oakland, CA 1992) for Grassroots organizing & community building through these current times. If you wanna join the #2swim plus app, hit me up for the code 🎉 “In February of 1989 the first issue of Aché: A Journal for Black Lesbians was published as a pet project by two friends, Lisbet Tellefsen and Pippa Fleming. Within 3 months the journal had tripled in size and was being distributed across the country and what had started with 2 women had become a community effort of many. The journal would grow to have subscribers in 12 countries. A total of 27 issues were published between 1989 and 1995 featuring the writings and artwork of over 200 writers and visual artists—most never before published. As the journal expanded, so did the organizing efforts and Aché began producing events in the community. Over the years Aché produced over 40 events bringing together diverse audiences. In 1992 Aché became a non-profit organization, The Aché Project, and opened an office on Shattuck Ave. in Berkeley--on the same block that had housed the Black Panther Party back in the day. Though the organization was laid to rest in 1995, the women of Aché have gone on to become celebrated authors, scholars, web gurus, anthropologists, performance artists, historians, professors, photographers, tradeswomen, archivists and slam poet divas who continue to change the world to this day. The camaraderie and friendships forged during these years endure. These random photos don't begin to tell the story. But it's a start. Aché! So be it. May it happen.” Lisbet Tellefsen Art by Storme Webber @stormewebberapalimpsest #2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #LisbetTellefsen @bayarealesbianarchives #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory https://www.instagram.com/p/CBywVFjDcBT/?igshid=xuc8hmwkmhyb

#2swim #2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #lisbettellefsen #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory

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Where is the local crash pad in your community? 🌍 “My house was the crash pad for all manner of international folk. Here are Pippa & I hosting the Black Brit contingent.” - Lisbet Tellefsen For the month of July we will focus in on ACHÉ & how we can use this organization as a conduit (Oakland, CA 1992) for Grassroots organizing & community building through these current times. #2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #LisbetTellefsen @bayarealesbianarchives #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory https://www.instagram.com/p/CCUpcSNDjn6/?igshid=6kib8axvllmm

#2swimconversations #ache #archives #blacklesbians #lisbettellefsen #blacklesbianarchives #lesbianherstory