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Title
Robin Cohen Oral History
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Date Created
2020
Subject
Oral History
Description
Robin Cohen reflects on growing up Jewish, intellectually precocious, left-handed, athletic, and increasingly aware of lesbian difference in the Chicago suburbs. She describes family divorce, early isolation, painful messages about homosexuality, and coming out through bars, reading, and public speaking. Her story follows college, rugby, Israel, lesbian pulp fiction collecting, Seattle counseling and education work, mental health trainings, and efforts to document lesbian history. She also discusses adoption and foster-care barriers, workplace diversity failures, aging, and the lifelong labor of turning shame, exclusion, and invisibility into knowledge, humor, advocacy, and community memory.
Type
Moving Image
Is Part Of
Colorado LGBTQ History Project
Format
video/mp4