Judy Rae Grahn (born July 28, 1940, in Chicago) is an American poet. She has written many lesbian / feminist works.
Judy Grahn is a poet who writes about women's lives, including lesbian experience. She was a member of the Gay Women's Liberation Group, the first lesbian feminist collective on the west coast, founded around 1969. The collective established A Woman's Place, a bookstore, and The Women's Press Collective, an all-woman publisher.
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Judy Rae Grahn (born July 28, 1940, in Chicago) is an American poet. She has written many lesbian / feminist works.
Judy Grahn is a poet who writes about women's lives, including lesbian experience. She was a member of the Gay Women's Liberation Group, the first lesbian feminist collective on the west coast, founded around 1969. The collective established A Woman's Place, a bookstore, and The Women's Press Collective, an all-woman publisher.
The Women's Press Collective (WPC) began in Oakland in 1969, with a barrel mimeograph machine, and ultimately was closed in 1978 due to the vandalization of the press and equipment. Diana Press was an offshoot of the WPC. WPC titles included A Woman is Talking to Death, Lesbians Speak Out, and Edward the Dyke.
Grahn is co-director and core faculty of the Women's Spirituality MA program starting at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, California in September 2008 (pending WASC approval.) She is also editor of the online academic...
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