Oral History Interview with Myeba Mindlin: Video, Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project
- Title
- Oral History Interview with Myeba Mindlin: Video, Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project
- LC Subject
- Lesbianism Lesbian community
- Local Collection ID
- Coll 520
- Repository
- University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
- Interviewee
- Mindlin, Myeba
- Interviewer
- Long, Linda, 1956- Raiskin, Judith L.
- Description
- The Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project collection consists of interviews of 83 people for the Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project, conducted by Professor Judith Raiskin and Curator Linda Long at the University of Oregon starting in the summer of 2018.
- Abstract
- Myeba was born in 1946 in Columbia, South Carolina. She moved to California in 1966 and lived in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. She discusses living in the Haight and a psychology experiment by a San Francisco State professor there. In search of rural communal life, Myeba moved to Black Bear Ranch in northern California, where her daughter was born in 1970. She discusses life at the ranch and schooling for her daughter. In 1975, she went to Cabbage Lane, lesbian land in southern Oregon. She discusses her internalized homophobia. She met her partner, Rhys, while tree planting with Full Moon Rising in 1977. Myeba discusses Susie Grimes’ accident while harvesting pinecones. She discusses living in the lesbian community in Eugene. She describes her work for Garbagio’s, an early recycling business started by Michael Gravino. She talks about Rhys’ cancer and death. She discusses her work at the Oregon Research Institute, her spirituality, and the spiritual circles she holds at her home in Eugene. She concludes her interview by discussing retirement, Soromundi Lesbian Chorus of Eugene, and her love of Oregon.
- Subject
- Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Oregon – Eugene; Campbell, Gladys; Communal living – California; Communal living – Oregon; Counterculture -- California, Northern; Feminist bookstores; Full Moon Rising Planting Crew; Garbagio’s; Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Social life and customs; Harbaugh, Anne “Izzie;” Hippies – California; Hoedads, Inc.; Internalized homophobia; Lesbian community – Oregon; Lesbian mothers -- United States; Morrigan, Kendra; Mother Kali’s Books; Parenting; Recycling; Riviera Room; Spirituality -- United States; Tree planting; U.S. Forest Service; Worker cooperatives.
- Location
- University of Oregon >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States
- Date
- 2018-08-21
- Identifier
- Coll520_do036
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon Libraries
- Local Collection Name
- Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project
- Type
- Moving Image
- Format
- video/mp4
- Set
- Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project
- Institution
- University of Oregon
