by Jeff Stookey | Nov 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
I recently spent a large part of an afternoon at the Department of Motor Vehicles waiting to renew my driver’s license. While waiting, I was reading about the collision of cultures of three peoples on three continents—Europeans, Africans, and indigenous...
by Jeff Stookey | Nov 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
On November 13th, 2018, the Urban League of Portland commemorated the 1988 murder of Mulugeta Seraw with a multi-hour conference addressing racial- and religious-based hate. Seraw was bludgeoned to death on the street in Southeast Portland by white supremacist...
by Jeff Stookey | Oct 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
My partner Ken and I are downsizing and slowly moving to a smaller house, so my life has become chaotic. My eReader got lost in the shuffle. Did I leave my hat at the new house or the old one? Is that book I need packed away for the movers, or is it at the other...
by Jeff Stookey | Sep 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
The New York Times, August 2, 2018, still from DW Griffith’s 1915 The Birth of a Nation, Smith Collection/Gado, via Getty Images Spike Lee’s new film BlacKkKlansman, based on the true-life account of Ron Stallworth’s experience as the first African-American cop...
by Jeff Stookey | Aug 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
I attended the Willamette Writers Conference at the beginning of August. My focus was on craft workshops and my favorites were the ones led by Eric Witchey (ericwitchey.com) and Hattie Ephron. (hallieephron.com). I learned a lot from both of them and I...
by Jeff Stookey | Jul 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
image from SPLC Report: “Guest Commentary: It can happen here” by Elden Rosenthal, Summer 2018, Vol. 48, No 2. When I began writing Medicine for the Blues, I was inspired by the 1990 trial of Tom Metzger, the American Nazi, and his white supremacist hate group, White...
by Jeff Stookey | Jun 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
image from “LGBTQ Institute in Germany Was Burned Down by Nazis,” by Lucy Diavolo, Sep 20, 2017 – teenvogue.com During this Pride Month, I am working with others toward a possible grant for the Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest...
by Jeff Stookey | May 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
Image from “54 Rare Historical Photos Of Drag Queens Before It Was Safe To Be Out!” by Todd Briscoe In the opening paragraph of Marjorie Garber’s Vested Interests, Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety (1992), she references a New York Times report that in the...
by Jeff Stookey | Apr 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
Temperance Worker with Portland Police, c. 1920 Photo from The Oregon History Project The long struggle for passage of alcohol prohibition was bound up with the long struggle for women’s suffrage. Opponents of prohibition knew that once women got the right to vote,...
by Jeff Stookey | Mar 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Emma Goldman’s mugshot In the 1870s, a social purity movement led to the passage of the Comstock laws, which forbade the distribution of obscene materials through the US mail. Birth control information and devices were considered obscene materials. Women of...
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