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Oral History Interview with Loree Cook-Daniels, January 30, 2011
No full textLoree Cook-Daniels has been an active member in the Milwaukee LGBT community, affiliated with FORGE, Diverse and Resilient, the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center, SAGE Milwaukee, and the Lesbian Alliance of Metro Milwaukee. Cook-Daniels discusses her marriage to her partner, Marcelle, in the mid-1980s; Marcelle's transition to a man while Loree remained a lesbian; and the lesbian community's rejection of them as a couple. She also recounts her frustration with the transgender community as it existed in the mid-1990s, and her role in advocating for the importance of Significant Others, Friends, Families, and Allies (SOFFAs) to transgender people. Cook-Daniels describes her involvement with FORGE, a Milwaukee-based organization formed to provide to provide peer support primarily to those on the female-to-male (FTM) gender spectrum and SOFFAs. She identifies two important moments in the recent history of Milwaukee's transgender community: the 2007 FORGE Forward conference, which was the first national FTM/SOFFA conference to be held in the Midwest, and the 2010 murder of Dana A. "Chanel" Larkin, which focused local attention on violence against transgender people.Milwaukee Transgender Oral History Project
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Loree Cook-Daniels
Interviewed by Brice Smith
January 30, 2011 at Cook-Daniels’ home
Transcribed by Matt Eidem
Copyright © 2011 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. All rights reserved.
Brice Smith – BS
Loree Cook-Daniels – CD
BS: All right, if you could please state your name, first and last.
CD: Loree Cook-Daniels.
BS: All right, it looks like we’re good for the sound. Okay, alright Loree, thanks for agreeing to
participate in the Milwaukee Transgender Oral History Project. If we could first start just with
some general biographical information. Well for starters how is it that you identify?
CD: (laughs) Oh, start with the hard one!
BS: (laughs)
CD: I no longer claim a sexual-orientation label. I gave that up many years ago when my first
partner transitioned, and I continued at that point to call myself a lesbian and a number o
Oral History Interview with michael munson and Loree Cook-Daniels, February 16, 2007
No full textmichael munson and Loree Cook-Daniels discuss their seven year-long relationship. They talk about raising their son, and they discuss marriage between transgender people. Additionally, they react to the passage of Wisconsin Referendum 1 and envision the future of their relationship
A critical analysis of the plays of Sarah Daniels.
No full textAs one of the forerunners of 'second wave' feminist playwriting, Sarah Daniels has for the
past fifteen years been one of Britain's most prolific writers for the stage. This thesis is the
first to offer a detailed critical analysis of all her published plays along with a developmental
account of her career. My approach throughout is text-based and non-prescriptive,
although I do at certain points indicate where Daniels reflects or voices differing feminist
perspectives. I also consider, beginning in Chapter Three, the critical reception and
'gendered' reviewing the playwright has received over the years.
The thesis is organised into five chapters with an Afterword. Chapter One, the
Introduction, offers an overview of Daniels' career as well as certain key characteristics of
her work. In Chapter Two I analyse the early plays, Ripen Our Darkness, The Devil's
Gateway and Neaptide, and consider in particular how they reflect, along with other
women's playwriting at the time, certain ideals of the Women's Liberation Movement.
Chapter Three is devoted entirely to Masterpieces, Daniels' most controversial and, on
many levels, successful play to date. Chapter Four is an analysis of the 'history plays',
Byrthrite and The Gut Girls. In addition to giving voice to women traditionally silenced in
and by history, these plays (especially Byrthrite) also echo particular strands of modern
feminist debate. Chapter Five examines Daniels' plays of the 1990s (Beside Herself, Head-
Rot Holiday and The Madness of Esme and Shaz) with their central theme of 'women and
madness'. This is also a fitting theme with which to conclude the thesis as it brings together
and expands on the most significant motif running throughout the playwright's work. In the
Afterword I consider the effect of Esme and Shaz's critical reception on Daniels, as well as
her current 'work in progress'. Finally, the two Appendices provide a chronological table of
Daniels' productions and a list of subsequent professional productions as well as awards
Michael Rodriguez interviews Jim Daniels, Professor of English and Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University
No full textDetroit native Jim Daniels, Professor of English and Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University, talks about being identified as a Detroit writer and poet, reading in Detroit with author Philip Levine, script and short story writing, challenging himself to try new things and developing a character over time. Daniels also explains how our ideas of movies have influenced expectations in writing and changed the way many writers approach their craft and suggests that contemporary writers have dropped the idea of writing the great American novel for writing the great American screenplay. Daniels is interviewed by Michael Rodriguez for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Kate Daniels, 12th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textKate Daniels, a Norfolk native who now teaches at Louisiana State University, is the author of two volumes of poetry, The White Wave, 1984, and The Niobe Poems, 1988, as well as the forthcoming Muriel Rukeyser: A Life of Poetry. Since 1979 she has co-edited the magazine Poetry East. In addition, she is the co-editor of On Silence: Writings on Robert Bly, 1982, and of the forthcoming The Achievement of Muriel Rukeyser. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Associated Writing Programs
Letter from J.W. Cook to Thomas Lamb Eliot
No full texthttps://rdc.reed.edu/v1/resources/5e17b7c9-4bca-4fcf-8784-0915783532dd/thumb/128.jpgIt is possible that the author is James W. Cook, who was an important figure in the establishment of the Portland Unitarian Church
Letter from J.W. Cook to Thomas Lamb Eliot
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Letter from J.W. Cook to Thomas Lamb Eliot
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Letter from J.W. Cook to Thomas Lamb Eliot
No full texthttps://rdc.reed.edu/v1/resources/48a1abe6-3896-473b-bc17-0796ead5e587/thumb/128.jpgIt is probable that the author is James W. Cook, who was an important figure in the establishment of the Portland Unitarian Church
Endarch Interview with Dr. Ron Daniels
No full textWe also present two interviews with Dr. Ron Daniels and Richard Adams, who are respectively the president and chair of the board of the Institute for the Black World 21st Century. Dr. Daniels is highly regarded as one of the leading scholar activists of his era. Richard Adams has served for several decades as a community organizer and activist. He has worked with many local grassroots group to address problematic conditions. With their wide experiences and keen insights Daniels and Adams address a wide array of concerns about ways and means for enhancing cooperative efforts among progressive groups, the prospects for Pan-Africanism in the 21st century, and building responsible leadership that will push to empower Black communities
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