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ajor 1970s lesbian enterprises which peaked in 1976 77 following it is a brief description of the activity that took place at each address all of this will be detailed in future posts if i haven t already 1 200 main st lesbian gardens third floor space that was originally rented along with half the second floor by the valley women s center union 1974 77 currently harlow luggage building 2 66 green st green st top two floors rooming house that started to be lesbian in 1972 and continued to be all or mostly lesbian at least until 1991 building bought and demolished by smith college currently grass 3 1 bridge st gala café lesbian backroom 1975 1979 torn down part of spoleto s currently in that space 4 25 main st nutcracker suite one large room on a back corridor as i recall i believe on the fourth floor 1976 77 this address also was used by the grand jury information project ceres inc and later i believe by chrysalis theatre it was in what is now known as the fitzwilly s masonic building 5 19 hawley st the egg and marigolths 1976 77 estimated originally rented in 1973 by mother jones press which in 1976 became megaera press and joined with old lady bluejeans distributing and the women s film coop to form the women s image takeover wit additional space in the building was rented to accommodate several craftswomyn and greasy gorgon garage auto repair these formed a collective of businesses with the self chosen odd name sweet coming bookstore moved there in 1977 6 78 masonic st common womon club 1976 82 private dining club for feminist vegetarians owned by the non profit ceres inc later bought by bill streeter for his book bindery currently it is the mosaic café 7 68 masonic st nutcracker suite women s self defense and karate dojo moved from main st 1977 78 womonfyre books 1978 82 owned by ceres inc later bought by bart s ice cream as their bakery currently it is lesbian owned bela vegetarian restaurant share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading jacqbear my first herstory buddy march 26 2019 march 26 2019 kaymarion raymond 9 comments this winter i got an email from someone through this blog a lesbian in california had done an internet search looking for information to include in an obituary she was helping write at fromwickedtowedded com she had found posts of jacqueline elizabeth letalien s writing about the local herstory the experience of being a springfield bardyke in the 1970s recognizing we had a mutual friend sue wrote to tell me that jacqueline had died over the next few weeks i met and corresponded with several california lesbians who filled me in on jacqueline s more recent life and the details of her death sue who first contacted me was editor of the humboldt county lesbian monthly the l word which had published jacqueline s kulture klatch column since 2001 i also heard from a friend and former co worker of jacqueline s at a local library and a former partner who had moved with her from oakland to the redwoods land of coastal northern california i welcomed their insights and reflections along with the personal details about a woman i had known best back in the 70s i hadn t been in touch with jacqueline since 2016 when i tracked her down to inquire about republishing some of her bar dyke poems though we were not regular correspondents i find in my files an accumulation of papers she sent me sporadically over the decades from the west coast these include document collections of valley history given to or saved by her and copies of her writing particularly as they reflected on western massachusetts she was my earliest and closest collaborator in establishing a core record of the beginnings of second wave feminism and lesbianfeminism in the connecticut river valley work that provided a basis for this blog forty years later her ex wondered if i had brought jacqueline out an inference from the stories told about me although we had fumbled around in bed once two sort of clueless butches i didn t bring her out at least not sexually perhaps i had politically in a way by introducing her to the gay and lesbian movements at umass there is a clear trajectory in her published writing as a student at umass she moves from vague poems of abstracted angst signed by jackie in a dormitory publication to coming out in 1971 as jacqueline lesbian in the umass student newspaper in order to point out some homophobic behavior massachusetts daily collegian student paper umass amherst oct 1971 by 1973 it was jacqueline e who was inadvertently starting her career as a journalist with frequent letters to the editor and articles in the student paper defending explaining and or protesting the war women s liberation and gay rights she was living at green street by then in june when she graduated a group of us women caravaned from northampton down to her folks backyard in agawam to celebrate the next thing to come in the mail to me after the packet of her clippings were three files of documents she explained in a cover letter that after a year in oakland she had lived in springfield massachusetts from 1975 to 1977 an envelope of clippings flyers and mimeoed information attest to a period of activism with feminists there two additional folders which were given to her by a springfield lesbian and feminist provided the material for the blog post on wafs and antiwar protest s by active duty service personnel at nearby westover air force base there is also a skinny file with yellowed paper dating from 1978 this is the laboriously typed pre word processor days first draft of what became the valley women s movement a herstorical chronology 1968 1978 notes for correction and additions are penciled in for a final edition that had to be completely retyped at some point i will tell a more complete story of the publication but jacqueline took my idea and scattered notes and invented a format to hold all the bits of data she ordered and fit it all together twice years later when i thanked her again for this work she had done she replied that the fact that i had given her that task had saved her life another decade went by before i asked her what she meant by that eventually she replied when i returned from california after my 1975 adventure i was a survivor of a very intense saturn cycle experience feeling fragile exhausted and terrified i was a woman on the verge with your assistance including giving her the chronology task i could get my bearings and figure out what i needed to do to begin a healing journey and make closure with the first thirty years one of jacqueline s former partners suggests that jacqueline may also have quit drinking at this point before there was any support for lesbians in 12 step programs several months before her death in december of 2018 as i was drafting a piece about the early 80s i came across a flyer for a reading from her work babelogues at annabelle s in northampton by as she now called herself jacqueline elizabeth she later sent me a copy of babelogues which she more informally referred to as her bar dyke poems about her gay bar experiences in the valley at the girls club the arbor the pub the cellar and the arbor ii part of a larger collection of poems some of them were published in the fall of 1981 in the first issue of common lives lesbian lives she also sent me a volume she published in 1982 hostages underground lies a woman buried in the introduction she called it a collage of the women s movement women s experience with government terrorism 1974 75 coming to awareness of these multiple violations was a large part of what hit her at the beginning of her saturn return on the west coast she heard of the experiences of inez garcia sla women karen silkwood and yvonne wanrow on her return to the east coast she was met by reports on the experiences of joanne little the watergate women the women of the weather underground and those lesbians called before the new haven grand jury and jailed what she saw was that from coast to coast being battered was the bottom line for women as a class she self published these two volumes from oakland in 1981 and 1982 with second and third editions in 1997 and 1999 they are stapled together photocopied collections of poems there was a long gap in our communications it was not until 2001 that she sent me copies of the later editions jacqueline after reading on the main stage at a san francisco pride photo courtesy dora abrahams along with them came a slim binder of her first seven kultureklatch monthly columns for the l word 2001 02 i love the introduction the name of this column is an herstorical reference to mothers coming together in a coffee klatch with other mothers in the neighborhood to talk about children husbands marriage cooking dreams what they live know the very first column august 2001 opens with currently a timber company is spraying poisons along the klamath river near and on the yurok reservation jacqueline in the redwoods c 1990 photo by dora abrahams jacqueline cut her signature long hair about 1999 here in a characteristic reporter pose photo courtesy dora abrahams another few years passed i had started doing this blog and tried to find a current address for jacqueline searching online i found that she had a blog for one intense year it appeared it had come and gone in 2011 but there was a contact address for jacqbear i love this and a wonderful photo of her unattributed i left a message unattributed photo from her 2011 blog four months later she responded via email sorry i have a love hate relationship with computers we reconnected one last time in 2016 that time the batch of files came electronically i printed out five years of kultureklatch aug 2002 2007 rereading this more recent work now i am struck by her occasional circling back around again to her our experiences in the valley in the 1970s each retelling gains depth of insight candidness and greater narrative skill she illuminates areas of our lives that it takes a long time to see and understand before trying to share it with each other she always keeps a radical perspective among the many issues she addresses i note particularly her references to coming to know herself as a woman of color the problems of drinking in the bar culture and the violence lesbians do to each other in intimate relationships the need for truth for our stories to be told writing as activism i read jacqbear s obituaries with great interest i recognized my old friend in the descriptions given of her stubbornness magic love of earth and cats grumpy bear need for solitude i very much want as promised by california sisters to hear to at least read the final cycle of her writing those are stories she became known for telling in humboldt county that take one on a journey of the natural cycles of earth wind and water the heartbeats of women and echoing sacred silences lost coast outpost jan 19 2019 loco staff saturday jan 19 6 45 a m obits obituary jacqueline elizabeth magdalene letalien 1947 2018 jacqueline elizabeth magdalene letalien december 29 1947 december 28 2018 she was born in lowell massachusetts to lillian and arthur letalien and had one sister vicky her family were french corsican miqmaq maliseet scottish and jewish jacqueline was a writer activist and poet she considered herself a crone an elder teacher a dream manifester a truth sayer i am ya akova elishiva de l etoile jacqueline attended the university of massachusetts where she began a lifelong process of bearing witness telling untold stories and working to make a difference in the various communities in which she lived moving to the bay area in the 1980s she wrote for the new bernal journal the north mission news the bay area reporter and began spoken word once she moved to humboldt county she worked for the college of the redwoods library then the humboldt county library specifically the kim yerton memorial library in hoopa organizing poetry readings in both locations she wrote a monthly column for the l word and humboldtgov org described her as a spoken word artist known to humboldt county audiences for her powerful thoughtful retellings of native american traditional tales and her poetry words from the deep springs of an individual human spirit her poems take you on a journey of world mythology human history natural cycles of earth wind and water the heartbeats of women and echoing sacred silences she wrote poetry and prose for a wide variety of publications and two collections of her work are in the process of publication jacqueline was grateful to live in this beautiful valley and would like to thank the hupa people for their warmth and friendship she appreciated both the beauty and isolation of this area and the community here so much so she stayed on after she retired jacqueline created many overlapping families for herself in the various places she lived and she is missed by many of us her final request is for you to continue to enjoy the library and to live peacefully in jacqueline s honor an open poetry reading is scheduled for january 19th 10 30 am at the kim yerton memorial library all are welcome reception to follow at the straight arrow café 12651 ca 96 hoopa ca 95546 530 625 1083 the obituary above was submitted on behalf of jacqueline letalien s family the lost coast outpost runs obituaries of humboldt county residents at no charge see guidelines here l word remembrances published in the feb 2019 issue dora jacqueline and i were partners for 6 years beginning around 1994 we met in oakland at the women s cancer resource center where she was the office manager and i was a volunteer i was drawn to her immediately from the first time i heard her talk she was butch keys hanging out of her pocket long hair native jewelry grounded and solid she had a presence a way of speaking that made a room listen we became friends fell in love and saved together to move to humboldt i had gone to hsu and planned on moving back eventually she had visited and hoped to move to humboldt one of the first presents she got me was a tiny plastic deer a reminder to be gentle with myself she taught me how to organize my paperwork encouraged me to get rid of things with difficult energy attached to them taught me to reward myself after doing hard work and believed in my strength far more than i did at the time she was my first live in relationship and we were as married as two women at that time could have been it wasn t until my relationship with her that i was able to sleep without the covers over my head she was not easy she was a bull headed capricorn a self described growly bear at times she could come across as stoic and cranky but she was a pussycat inside she trusted me with her vulnerability and effortlessly told me she loved me very early on in our relationship one day early in our friendship a mean ex of mine came into the resource center...