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Showing posts with label SHAFT. Show all posts

Showing posts with label SHAFT. Show all posts

02 January 2014

Alice Purnell (1943 - ) chemist, activist, nurse, counsellor, poet

++February 2015 - revised after feedback from Alice. Purnell was conceived in a haystack in the Wirral during an air-raid. He was sexual...

16 July 2011

Judy Cousins (1917 - 1993) soldier, sculpter, businessman, activist, golfer.

SHAFT, run by Judy Cousins, sculptor and golfer, was the major UK group for transsexuals during the 1980s. Revised 30/11/11. Lewen Tugwe...

02 July 2011

Rachael Webb (1940 - 2009) lorry driver, housing officer, councillor, activist.

Tim knew from age six that he wanted to be a girl. He had little formal education but was self-educated by reading Marx and the 1950s existe...

01 February 2011

Richard Ekins (194?–) jazz musician, sociologist, psychoanalyst.

++ updated August 2012, March 2014 ++Teenage Richard Ekins was a fan of New Orleans jazz. Inspired by the legendary trumpeter DeDe La Cro...

11 September 2009

Brenda Lana Smith, consul, activist.

Brenda Lana Smith has a small but important part in our history. You can read about her in Joanne Meyerowitz. How Sex Changed: A History o...

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