OLOC's 2010 National Gathering
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Old Lesbian Pride: Sharpening the Radical Edge, was held July 14-18 in Cleveland, Ohio. There were 4 keynote speakers who are long time community activists. An activist in her own right, Alix Dobkin provided entertainment.
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Keynote Speakers
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Margaret (Peg) Cruikshank, 1940
has worked for decades in Women's and Gay & Lesbian Studies and wrote Learning to be Old, Gender Culture and Aging and Fierce with Reality: An Anthology of Literature on Aging.
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Vera Martin, 1923
who currently lives in the Apache Junction, Arizona, is a founder of OLOC and a noted activist for social justice, has worked against ageism for many decades, and is of African descent.
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Sheila Ortiz Taylor, 1939
is a beloved and respected teacher, a prolific writer, and author of Faultline, which featured a Lesbian Chicana. She and her partner won a legal battle to have their relationship recognized in Florida.
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Marilyn "Jezz" Jesmain, 1931
whose Native heritage is Mohawk, is an archaeologist with a passion for petroglyphs significant to women and a wealth of stories and myths about women and the land from many cultures.
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Entertainment
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Alix Dobkin, 1940
is an entertainer, songwriter, raconteur, author of a songbook and a pre-Lesbian memoir, My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, & Coming Out in the Feminist Movement, has worked in women's music and Lesbian culture and released six albums, currently a member of the OLOC Steering Committee.
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