Aradia, Susan Wiseheart Collection

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  • Date Range: 5-1-1982
  • Collection Summary:
  • Description: One of four reels recording Alix Dobkin's performance at "celebrating ARADIA" Davenport College, Grand Rapids. Michigan. Susan Burns, sign language interpreter. Slide show.
  • Biographical/Historical Note: Musician and activist Alix Dobkin was born in 1940. She first performed at NYC's Gaslight Cafe in 1962. In 1965 she married Sam Hood, then manager of the Gaslight. They had a daughter Adrian in 1970. A year later, the marriage dissolved and in 1972 she and Liza Cowan became partners and came out as lesbians. Dobkin's first album "Lavender Jane Loves Women" was released in 1973. In all she released seven albums between 1973 and 1992. She also appeared frequently at womyn's music festivals and, toured abroad. She's a co-director and steering committee member of Old Lesbians Organizing for Change. [Source material: Alix Dobkin, My Red Blood; Harvard Finding Aid, Alix Dobkin Papers.]
    Susan Burns had been working as a sign interpreter for about two years at the time of this concert.
  • Genres: Concert, Documentary
  • Subjects: Women's music, Lesbians, Lesbian separatism-United States
  • Places: Grand Rapids, MI; Davenport College, Grand Rapids, MI
  • Creators: Aradia
  • Collaborators & Participants: Alix Dobkin
    Susan Burns, sign language interpreter
    If you or friends were present for this event, we hope you'll email us at info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org & let us know. We'll share your input if that's okay, or just preserve it.
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  • Access & Use: Contact Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org. No re-use without permission. LHMP must contact donor Susan Wiseheart with regard to any re-use.
  • Rights: Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) shares rights with Susan Wiseheart during her lifetime. Participants also have the right to approve uses of material they appear in during their lifetimes.

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  • Preferred Citation: Aradia Susan Wiseheart Collection, Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP)