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A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
No full textJake Adam York reads four poems in and near his hometown of Gadsden, Alabama, in January 2008. York's poetry blends themes and imagery drawn from his experiences and those of his family members, framed with the natural, industrial, and social histories of the northern Alabama landscape. In these four poems, York conjures events, places, and people in ways that highlight landscape, history, memory, and experience
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
No full textJake Adam York and Natasha Trethewey discuss psychological geographies, southern regions, music and form in writing, estrangement and familiarity in poetry, self and the city in an interview recorded in Decatur, Georgia, on May 13, 2010
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
No full textPoet Sandra Beasley discusses her food allergies, their effect on family and social gatherings, and her travels through the US South in this September 4, 2011 interview with Jake Adam York in Decatur, Georgia. She also reads several poems from her collection I Was the Jukebox
Anniversary
No full textJake Adam York reads poems in and near Montgomery and Anniston, Alabama, in January 2010. York's poetry reflects on acts of violence that occurred in these areas during the Civil Rights Movement. It seeks, as well, to discover the ghosts that remain in Alabama and to find ways to answer them
Jake
No full textWhen ten-year-old Jake's widowed mother breaks her leg just before Christmas while her sister and best friend are both away, a grandfather Jake barely remembers must come to Baltimore, Maryland, to help a neighbor take care of hi
Fashion Culture: Worn In New York
No full textOn Tuesday, October 30, 2018, New York Times bestselling author Emily Spivack presented Worn in New York, a contemporary cultural history of well-loved clothes and the people who wore them. Contributors in and out of the public eye share personal, wild, poignant, funny stories about the clothes that are part of their New York lives. A book signing followed the presentation
Kulaw, Jake
No full textJake Kulaw is a white transman born in Buffalo New York, who now lives in Portland Maine. His pronouns are he, him, his. Jake is a high school health teacher in Portland Maine, who is an activist and is involved in community engagement. He is passionate about teaching high school students on LGBTQ+ identities and safe sex. He talks first on his childhood and feeling like he was born in the wrong body. He had a lot of depression and turned to drugs and alcohol in high school and received substance abuse treatment in Albany New York. He talks on coming out as a butch lesbian to his mother and his experience feeling like he did not belong in the butch lesbian community. He has recently come out as a transman and has started transitioning. He shares his experiences with discrimination in the workplace as a former butch lesbian teacher from other staff and his superiors. He expresses concerns about the Trump administration and LBGTQ+ rights. He closes with advice for young trans people who have or may not have come out yet, highlighting building strong friendships.
Citation
Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Collection, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, University of Southern Maine Libraries.
For more information about the Querying the Past: Maine LGBTQ Oral History Project, please contact Dr. Wendy Chapkis.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/1056/thumbnail.jp
York County History - Accession 68 - M30 (42)
No full textThe York County History collection consists of a brief summary of York County, SC history from its settlement in 1750 to the Great Depression in the 1930s. The author is unknown.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1119/thumbnail.jp
Edith L. Fisch, First Female Law Professor in New York State
No full textEdith Fisch, author of the treatise Fisch on New York Evidence, was the first female law professor in New York State when she began teaching at New York Law School in 1962. She was also the first woman to earn the J.S.D. degree at Columbia University Law School and the first person ever to earn all degrees awarded by the law school, receiving her LL.B. in 1948, her LL.M. in 1949, and her J.S.D. in 1950. Professor Fisch served as president of the New York Women\u27s Bar Association from 1970 to 1971. Her accomplishments are all the more significant because Professor Fisch had contracted polio at the age of 12 and was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life.https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/firsts/1007/thumbnail.jp
Edith L. Fisch, Associate Professor, 1962-1965. President, New York Women\u27s Bar Association, 1970-1971.
No full textEdith L. Fisch, Associate Professor, 1962-1965. Professor Fisch served as president of the New York Women\u27s Bar Association from 1970 to 1971. She was the author of the treatise Fisch on New York Evidence and was the first female law professor in New York State when she began teaching at New York Law School in 1962. She was also the first woman to earn the J.S.D. degree at Columbia University Law School and the first person ever to earn all degrees awarded by the law school, receiving her LL.B. in 1948, her LL.M. in 1949, and her J.S.D. in 1950. Her accomplishments are all the more significant because Professor Fisch had contracted polio at the age of 12 and was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life.https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/bar_leaders/1003/thumbnail.jp
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