Meet Judy Grahn

Poet, activist, and scholar Judy Grahn was born in Chicago and grew up in New Mexico. She joined the Air Force but was discharged at 21 for being openly gay. A central member of the West Coast feminist poetry movement of the 1970s, Grahn received a PhD from the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Judy Grahn is coming to the Billy DeFrank Center

Free Event: Sunday, November 8th, 2pm - 4pm

Judy will talk about what it was like to be a lesbian in the 1970's and 80's - this will be a taste of herstory for young queer womxn and

nostalgia for the older folks.

Julie Enszer of Sinister Wisdom recently published an updated version of her 1985 book The Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition. She may read from that and a bit of earlier work too.

She also has new work, ecopoetic poems, and poetic renderings of some rather radical and heretical teachings from The Gospel of Mary Magdalen = no sin, for instance. No father God.

If you want to help organize this event with one of our amazing authors/activists please email: [email protected]