This Fact Is Overdue #20

 

Circuit Breaker

Jackie Shane relaxing at home

The Chitlin’ Circuit, some early rock ‘n’ roll, and the fabulous Jackie Shane

REFERENCES

Banks, E. (2010) I Got Mine: The Story of Jackie Shane. CBC Radio Listened to on Sound Cloud.

Chambers, S., et al eds. (2017) Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer. Toronto: Coach House Books.

Farber, J. (2019) Jackie Shane: remembering the groundbreaking trans soul singer. The Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/25/jackie-shane-groundbreaking-trans-soul-singer

Fensterstock, A. (2017) Jackie Shane, A Force Of Nature Who Disappeared, Has A Story All Her Own. NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/10/25/559775225/jackie-shane-a-force-of-nature-who-disappeared-has-a-story-all-her-own

Fosgren, L. (2019) From the Black Arts Movement to the Contemporary Chitlin Circuit Journal of DramaticTheory and Criticism, 33(2); 61-80.

Iannacci, E. (2017) Searching for Jackie Shane, R&Bs Lost Transgender Superstar. Globe & Mail.

Jeffries, F. (2019) Black Performers’ Soulful Showcase During Segregation. The Atlanta Constitution.

The late Jackie Shane in her own words: A rare interview with the pioneering musician CBC Radio.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/friday-feb-8-2019-david-foster-jackie-shane-and-more-1.5009904/the-late-jackie-shane-in-her-own-words-a-rare-interview-with-the-pioneering-musician-1.5010217

Lauterbach, P. (2011) The Chitlin Circuit and the Road to Rock and Roll. New York: W.W. Norton.

McGowan, D. (2018) Jackie Shane: It’s Just, “Yes Ma’am, No Ma’am.” Southern Cultures, 24 (3); 30-44.

McKenna, B. (2018) Jackie Shane, a Legend Among Us. Nashville Scene.

Portsmith, J. (2019) Jackie Shane, Soul Singer and Transgender Pioneer, Dead at 78. Rolling Stone.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jackie-shane-soul-singer-transgender-obituary-798820/

Stack, L. (2019) Jackie Shane, Transgender Pioneer of 1960s Soul Music, Dies at 78. New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/obituaries/jackie-shane-dead.html

Ugwu, R. (2017) Jackie Shane, a Transgender Soul Pioneer, Re-emerges After Four Decades. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/arts/music/jackie-shane-transgender-soul-pioneer.html?action=click&module=RelatedCoverage&pgtype=Article&region=Footer

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitlin%27_Circuit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Shane

This Fact Is Overdue #19

 

NYC Library Firsts

A comparison of the very different lives of Pura Belpre and Belle da Costa Greene

Pura Belpre (left) and Belle Da Costa Greene (right)

REFERENCES

American Library Association
https://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/belpre

Benedict, M. and V.C. Murray (2021) The Personal Librarian: a novel. Berkeley: Penguin Random House.

Colorin Colorado
https://www.colorincolorado.org/books-authors/pura-belpr%C3%A9-her-life-and-legacy

Guide to the Pura Belpré Papers, Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños
https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/collections/pura-belpr%C3%A9-biographical-essay

Guzman, W. (2020) PURA BELPRÉ (1903-1982) Black Past
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/pura-belpre-1903-1982/

Hernandez-Delgado, J. (1992) Pura Theresa Belpre, Storyteller and Pioneer Puerto Rican Librarian. The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy, 62(4); 425-440.

Knapp, F. (2020) She Was a Black Librarian Who Could Equal America’s Most Powerful Man
https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/06/03/she-was-a-black-librarian-who-could-equal-americas-most-powerful-man/

Marie Benedict
https://www.authormariebenedict.com/

Nielsen, E. (2021) BELLE DA COSTA GREENE (1883-1950) Black Past
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/belle-da-costa-greene-1883-1950/

Rosenberg, R. (2020) PURA BELPRÉ, THE FIRST PUERTO RICAN LIBRARIAN IN NYC (AND MY LIBRARY HERO) Book Riot  https://bookriot.com/pura-belpre/

The Attic (2019)
https://brucewatson4.medium.com/the-black-woman-who-managed-morgans-millions-f067b31d1024

The Morgan Library & Museum
https://www.themorgan.org/belle-greene

Ulaby, N. (2016) How NYC’s First Puerto Rican Librarian Brought Spanish To The Shelves
https://www.npr.org/2016/09/08/492957864/how-nycs-first-puerto-rican-librarian-brought-spanish-to-the-shelves

Wellesley, M. (2015) Forged Lives. Lapham’s Quarterly

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/forged-lives

This Fact Is Overdue #18

500 club

Dr. Lauren Espisito

REFERENCES

500 Women Scientists (2018) Comin Out of the Shadows
https://500womenscientists.org/updates/2018/6/4/coming-out-of-the-shadows

Advocate eds. (2018) 500 Queer Scientists to Make Your Day Smarter

https://www.advocate.com/people/2018/7/19/500-queer-scientists-make-your-day-smarter#media-gallery-media-1

Duncombe, J. (2019) Shining a Spotlight on LGBTQ+ Visibility in STEM.
https://eos.org/articles/shining-a-spotlight-on-lgbtq-visibility-in-stem

Esposito, L. (2018) 500 Queer Scientists: A new campaign for a more inclusive STEM future

https://500queerscientists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/eb0b9c_71f94bbb8f9741a2bbf579817052aa74.pdf

Esposito, L (2018) We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We Have a Place in Science https://medium.com/marchforscience-blog/were-here-we-re-queer-and-we-have-a-place-in-science-78f251d10fff

Gorman, J. (2017) Scorpions Are Ancient, but Some Species Are New to Science. New York Times (Online), New York: New York Times Company.

Madhusoodanan, J. (2018) Visibility matters: A conversation with the co-founder of 500 Queer Scientists,

https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2018/06/visibility-matters-conversation-co-founder-500-queer-scientists

Ronnigen, T. (2019) NOGLSTP Recognizes Chan, Morales, and Freeman as LGBTQ+ Educator, Engineer, and Scientist of the Year for 2019, Esposito is Walt Westman Awardee https://www.noglstp.org/publications-documents/announcements/2019-02-04-noglstp-recognizes-chan-morales-and-freeman-as-lgbtq-educator-engineer-and-scientist-of-the-year-for-2019-esposito-as-walt-westman-award-winne/

Shultz, K. (2016) World's only female scorpion expert on lookout for new species. San Francisco Chronicle.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/World-s-only-female-scorpion-expert-on-lookout-6720569.php

Tabak, L. (2016) Lauren Esposito x Charles Darwin

https://www.laurentabak.com/remodel-project/lauren-esposito-charles-darwin

Untamed Science (2016) Lauren Esposito- Scorpion Biologist
https://untamedscience.com/entomologists/lauren-esposito-entomologist/

Walrath, R. (2018) They’re Here. They’re Queer. They’re Scientists. https://www.motherjones.com/media/2018/06/500-queer-scientists-gay-pride/

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500_Queer_Scientists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Esposito

Yoder, J. and A. MAttheis. (2016) Queer in STEM: Workplace Experiences Reported in a National Survey of LGBTQA Individuals in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Careers JOURNAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY  63(1); 1–27.

This Fact Is Overdue #17

The BLF

Barbara Smith

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Barbara Smith, Black, feminist, lesbian, socialist writer, and an obscure fact about Ayn Rand.  — Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/diane-t-sands/support

REFERENCES

Anzaldua, G. and C. Moraga. (1983) This Bridge Called My Back. Boston: Kitchen Table Press.

Blain, K. (2019) Barbara Smith Looks Back on a Lifetime of Black Feminist Struggle. Ms. https://msmagazine.com/2019/12/16/the-ms-qa-barbara-smith-looks-back-on-a-lifetime-of-black-feminist-struggle/

Chay, D. (1993) Rereading Barbara Smith: Black Feminist Criticism and the Category of Experience. New Literary History. 24(3); 635-652.

Hull, A., P. Bell-Scott and B. Smith eds. (2015) All the Women Are White, All the Men Are Black, But Some of Us Are Brave. New York: Feminist Press. 

Iovannone, J. (2018) Barbara Smith: Mother of Black Feminism, Revolutionary Publisher.
https://medium.com/queer-history-for-the-people/barbara-smith-mother-of-black-feminism-revolutionary-publisher-4189232e15b0

Moraga, C. and B. Smith. (2014) Lesbian Literature: A Third World Feminist Perspective. The Radical Teacher. No. 100, 93-96.

Ross, L. (2003) Voices of Feminism Oral History Project. Northampton, MA : Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.

Smith, B. (2000) Establishing Black Feminism. Souls: Critical Journal of Black Politics and Culture. 2(4); 50-54.

Smith, B. ed. (2000) Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.

Smith, B. (1998) The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.

Smith, B. (1998) Where’s the Revolution? The Nation.
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/wheres-revolution/

Smith, B. (1980) Racism and Women’s Studies. Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, 5(1); 48-49.

Smith, B. (1979) Notes for Yet Another Paper On Black Feminism, Or Will the Real Enemy Please Stand Up? Conditions: Five. 123-127. 

Smith, B. (1978) Towards a Black Feminist Criticism. The Radical Teacher. No. 7, 20-27

Smith, B. (1976) Doing Research on Black American Women. The Radical Teacher. No. 3; 25-27.

Smith, B. (1974) Teaching About Black Women Writers. Women’s Studies Newsletter, 2(2); 2.

Taylor, K-Y. (2017) How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. Chicago: Haymarket Books.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Smith 

This Fact is Overdue #16

 

Lovely Limu Lady

Dr. Isabella Aiona Abbott and Central Pacific Algae!!!

REFERENCES

Abbott, I. (1976) Marine Algae of California. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Abbott, I. (2001) Interpreting Pre-Westerm Hawaiian Culture as an Ethnobotanist. Economic Botany; 56(1): 3-6.

Abbott, I. and D. Ballantine. (2012) Veleroa setteana, n. Sp. (Rhodophyta: Rhodomelaceae), from the Hawaiian Archipelago, Including Notes on the Generitype. Pacific Science; 66(3). 

Bergeron, L. (2010) Isabella Abbott, world-renowned Stanford algae expert, dies at 91.
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/december/izzie-abbott-obit-120710.html

Bishop Museum Press. (2018) Lāʻau Hawai‘i: Traditional Hawaiian Uses of Plants.
https://bishopmuseumpress.org/products/laau-hawaii

Huisman, J. and I. Abbott. (2003) The Liagoraceae (Rhodophyta: Nemaliales) of the Hawaiian Islands. Pacific Science; 57(3): 267-273.

Howe, K. (2010) ‘Seaweed lady’ Isabella Abbott dies. Monterey Herald; 11.17.2010
https://web.archive.org/web/20140201170240/http://www.montereyherald.com/local/ci_16635188

Kassinger, R. (2019) Slime. Boston: Houghton Miflin Harcourt.

Kozloff, E. (1973) Seashore Life of the Northern Pacific Coast. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Long Story Short with Leslie Wilcox. (2009) PBS Hawaii.
http://www.pbshawaii.org/ourproductions/longstory_transcripts/LSS%20126%20Transcript%20-%20Isabella%20Abbott.pdf

Shetterly, S. (2018) Seaweed Chronicles. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books.

University of Hawaii web page: Dr. Isabella Abbott
https://web.archive.org/web/20111026080459/http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/abbott/

University of Hawaii at Mānoa. (2010) Campus mourns ‘First Lady of Limu’ Isabella Abbott.
https://manoa.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=4000