Michigan Womyn's Music Festival Stories
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Chef and Queer Rights Activist
La Quinta, CA
Betty C. Berrysmith was born on April 4, 1953 in Seattle, Washington and raised alongside her three siblings. Facing unjust working conditions and limitations due...
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Women's music pioneer, Olivia Records founder
Oakland, CA
Ginny Berson was born on April 25, 1946 in Hartford, Connecticut. She attended college in Massachusetts where she began developing her personal political identity through...
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Drummer, creator of women's drumming spaces
Cheltenham, PA
Carolyn Brandy was born in Tampa, Florida on July 20, 1946. With a father in the US Army special forces, Carolyn lived in Georgia, Maryland,...
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Lead Plaintiff to Legalize Gay Sex in Montana
Helena, MT
Linda Gryczan was born on September 23rd, 1953, the oldest of five siblings, and grew up in Western Colorado. At 11 years old, she read...
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Groundbreaking folk and protest musician
Ukiah, CA
Holly Near was born on June 6th, 1949 in Potter Valley, California, a remote enclave in Mendocino County, and grew up on a farm where...
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Political and non-profit activist
Santa Monica, CA
Torie Osborn was born in 1950 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and moved with her family to Madrid, Spain at the age of five. In Madrid, Torie...
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artist, bisexual lesbian
Tucson, AZ
Penelope Starr was born in 1945 in New York, NY. As the daughter of two eccentric artists – her mother a jeweler and her father...
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Lincoln City Councilmember, Racial Equity Advocate
Lincoln, NE
Sändra Washington was born on October 6th, 1960, in Columbus, Ohio. She and her identical twin sister, Sharon, spent their first four years in Westerville,...
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Transgender author and activist
Miami Beach, FL
Riki Wilchins was born on April 3rd, 1952, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was a high-achieving student, performing the valediction at her high school, before earning...
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