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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: ALIX DOBKINadmin2021-05-28T07:35:56-04:00

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Alix Dobkin

August 16, 1940 – May 19, 2021

“Smoke and mirror games are perpetrated by those who mean to be in control when the smoke clears.”

Singer, songwriter, author, activist, Lavender Jane, the band. Her 1973 debut album was “Lavender Jane Loves Women.” Co-director of Old Lesbians Organizing for Change.

Interviewed by Linda Boyd Kavars, 1998

Photo 1. “The Future is Female” in Preston Hollow, N.Y. in 1975. (Liza Cowen via AP). Photo 2. At a 2017 performance in Ulster County, NY. (Retts Scauzillo)

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More About Alix:

  • Alix Dobkin website
    • MY RED BLOOD: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement, published by Alyson Books, October, 2009
  • Select photos, Windy City Times
  • Alix Dobkin obituary
  • Alix Dobkin on Spotify
  • Ladyslipper Music
  • Alix Dobkin on YouTube
  • Eleanor Pam, President of Veteran Feminists of American introduces Alix Dobkin at the Kate Millett Festival, June 24, 2012 Judson Memorial Church
  • SELECT INTERVIEWS
    • Alix Dobkin live with DJ Phoenixx, Women’s Liberation Radio News, October 8, 2018
    • Interview with Alix, Woodstock Townspeople
    • Queer Music Heritage May 2002
    • Interview with Alix Dobkin, “This Gay Life,”  October 27, 1994
    • Interview with Alix Dobkin, “Our Time,” a television series produced and co-hosted by Vito Russo, January 1982. Interview begins at 2:45.
    • Interviews with Alix Dobkin 1975, 1976, 1980  Pacifica Radio Archives
    • Alix Dobkin Papers
      • Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
      • Smith College
      • Lamda Archives of San Diego
    • Old Lesbians Organizing For Change website
    • Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America, page 120

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