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haiku-robot:redbeardace:sunflower-avenue:bi-gray:sunflower-avenue:bi-gray:sunflower-avenue:historicallyace:a-place-to-be-panace:christopherokamoto:lesbianherstorian:activists at barnard college providing “labels”, photographed by susan rennie and published in off our backs: a women’s newsjournal vol. 3 no. 6, february 1973Wow, David Jay really time traveled back to 1973 to start inventing asexuality. This makes my heart so happy Just for the purposes of authentication…Here’s a link to where you can view the image in-context (you must have a jstor account, which is free if you’re okay with only reading 6 papers a month, if you do not already have institutional access). It turns out that this image, along with another, was intended to be published in the previous issue of off our backs, but was not received in time.Here’s the article that that image was supposed to accompany (apologies for the fact that this is another jstor link). It turns out this was from an event called “Lesbian/Feminist Dialogue” that those young women (from the Lesbian Activists at Barnard) were supporting. Now, before we get the hue and cry about “they weren’t really talking about asexuality in the sense that you mean it!!!!11! they were just spitballing label ideas,” here’s what the author of the article, Frances Chapman, had to say about it:“I attended the workshop on asexuality lead by Barbara Getz. According to Barbara, asexuality is an orientation that regards a partner as nonessential to sex, and sex as nonessential to a satisfying relationship.”Obviously not quite the definition we used today, but decently close to it. Here’s the text in case anyone can’t access it on jstor“ YOUR-OWN-LABEL I can be honest without using the word “lesbian,” she said. Her advice about relating to women outside the women"s movement is worth repeating: Talk about lives, don’t talk about the issues of women’s liberation. She is a teacher in a public girls high school where “girls who come on butch, don’t stay in the school,” and there is little she can do to help them and yet keep her position. Topic workshops included workshops on age-ism, how men keep women apart, trust between women, dealing with anger, oppression within the women’s movement, women loving women, coming out, the revolutionary woman, a and black attitudes toward feminism. I attended the workshop on asexuality led by Barbara Getz. According to Barbara, asexuality is an orientation that regards a partner as nonessential to sex and sex as nonessential to a satisfying relationship. “The Asexual Manifesto” can be obtained from New York Radical Feminists, P.O. Box 621, Old Chelsea Station, New York 10011). The conference drew a whole constellation of women’s movement stars. In addition to Jill Johnston, in chevrons, and Gloria Steinem, Barbare Love, author of “Sappho Was A Right on Woman,” Grace Atkinson, who now calls Joe Columbo “Sister,” and Kate Millet were spotted. The New York straight press didn’t think the conference was a story. Maybe it wasn’t for the male everydailies, but for women who survived the sexuality splits within the movement, an attempt to unify with allowance for sexual variety was an herstoric occasion. Why didn’t someone think to rent a hall in Seneca Falls?by frances chapman”Also, the article mentions “The Asexual Manifesto” which it says can be obtained from New York Radical Feminists. I would love love love to be able to find that. Anyone know how I might be able to get my hands on it? (The group disbanded in the 1970s and I have no idea where their writings would have gone) I did a little digging and it looks like Duke University has a collection of their papers in the library archives, although the catalog listing doesn’t mention that piece specifically. Curiously, I also found some mentions of “The Asexual Manifesto” being read on air during Margot Adler’s show on WBAI-FM radio in New York in the early 1970s, so there might be some leads from that direction, too? One person who recalls hearing the broadcast writes that “The general idea had to dowith the liberation of people who areinto solo sex.”thanks @bi-gray !i got over excited and actually emailed Margot Adler and Jim Freund, who’s hosting the (still running!) radio show. It’s a long shot they would have copies or remember anything from then, but it doesn’t hurt to ask i guess?You never know! It seems like you and @redbeardace are doing a pretty efficient job of filling in different pieces of the story so far. :)Update: Sadly, Margot Adler passed away a few years ago and Jim Freund doesn’t have access to the old airchecks. So no luck there. There might be mention of it in Adler’s book Heretic’s Heart: A Journey Through Spirit and Revolution. There is:A woman reads a document called “The Asexual Manifesto” on the air, and calls from the solitary and celibate follow for days.And according to Google Books, that’s the only mention in the book.and according to google books that’s the only mention in the book ^Haiku^bot^9. I detect haikus with 5-7-5 format. Sometimes I make mistakes.Future is exactly like a box of chocolates.. And not in a good way. | PayPal | Patreon -- source link
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