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- IT WAS AN ELECTRIFYING EVENING ON OCTOBER 21, 2002
| 2 Jennifer Einhorn Director of Communications NEW FACES For the past 15 years, Jenn has been a communications strategist working primarily in the areas of social issues and the arts. She is the former Director of Communications for GLAAD, and MAMM (the magazine for women with breast and reproductive cancers), and a former music journalist for The Boston Phoenix and The Boston Herald. She was a media consultant for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and has worked with Astraea for several years as a communications consultant. Astraea’s tagline Empower, Envision, Embrace was created by Jenn. She has a BA. in Political Ethics and lives with her partner, Deb Krivoy, in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. PHOTO: DEB KRIVO Y A L ETTER F ROM A STRAEA ’ S E XECUTIVE D IRECTOR K ATHERINE A CEY IT WAS AN ELECTRIFYING EVENING ON OCTOBER 21, 2002 when Astraea hosted the New York City premiere of Radical Harmonies, a film by Dee Mosbacher. The event benefited Astraea’s Lynn Campbell Memorial Fund— honoring the life of an extraordinary lesbian human rights activist (see sidebar. Radical Harmonies, which chronicles the women’s music cultural movement, broke into the spotlight at this year’s 26th San Francisco International Lesbian Gay Film Festival when it unanimously won the coveted Audience Award for Best Documentary. The film’s Castro premiere was sold out the New York screening was highly anticipated. By all accounts—it delivered. The documentary explores the birth of a movement which changed the face of popular music forever. Through priceless vintage footage and refreshingly candid interviews, Mosbacher follows women’s music from its birth in the s to the present. Mosbacher recalled that the film, five years in the making, was a debt of gratitude for me In the seventies, she discovered the out lesbian folksinger, Meg Christian whom many consider to be the founder of the women’s music genre. I remember feeling then, that I wasn’t the only lesbian in the world. To see lesbians who looked like a variation of me was very affirming especially in a culture that was so homophobic Extremely thankful for the impact these women had on her life, Mosbacher yearned to share this wonderful story of women’s music with a wider community The film features a virtual Who’s Who of women’s music pioneers Christian, Cris Williamson, Holly Near, Linda Tillery, Margie Adam, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Ronnie Gilbert, June Millington, Alix Dobkin, Edwina Lee Tyler, Ferron and the late Kay Gardner. Also featured are Ani Difranco, Judith Casselberry, Ubaka Hill, Toshi Reagon, the Indigo Girls and many others. Radical Harmonies pays tribute to the array of courageous women who helped create and solidify women’s music—those involved in the infrastructure of the music, as well as the performers. At that time, to be able to sing their truths as out lesbians was often a difficult path. In fact she continued, it was lifesaving fora number of lesbians.” It was not an easy time. Homophobia divided collaborations among heterosexual and lesbian musicians. The sexist mainstream music industry didn’t believe in the selling power of women’s music. And women of color were notably absent, and sometimes excluded, from participation. In response, lesbian artists, with other women, creatively mobilized. Concerts were held in cramped halls and basements, sometimes with only a microphone, guitar and an eager audience. Cris Williamson’s debut on Olivia Records proved that Download 159.33 Kb. Share with your friends:
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