Oral History Interview with kaseja wilder: Video, Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project
- Title
- Oral History Interview with kaseja wilder: 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
- Wilder, Kaseja
- 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
- kaseja was born in September 1961 in Seattle. Her father was in the military, and the family moved around a lot. She discusses being raised in a patriarchal Mormon family, dropping out of high school, and getting married at an early age to a man who was an alcoholic and drug addict. She attended the University of Oregon in 1981, and came out as a lesbian in 1982. She began working at Mother Kali’s Books in Eugene and describes it. She describes the Women’s Press Collective, and the newspaper The Women’s Press. She moved to the southern Oregon lesbian separatist lands in 1989, living on Oregon Women’s Land (OWL Farm). Kaseja describes life on the lesbian lands, including the challenges of practicing the consensus model, and conflicts. Kaseja moved to another lesbian land, Cabbage Lane. The land adjacent to Cabbage Lane is gay men’s land, Lilac Ridge. Kaseja describes the significance of ritual circles practiced on the land. She moved to the Southwest and worked on movie set crews. She moved to California and then to the Bay Area. She discusses her partner’s transition from female to male. Prior to his transition, she gave birth to one of their children, and Kaseja gave birth to the other. She talks about gender and transgender issues as well as alternative insemination and parenting. She ends her interview by discussing aging issues within the lesbian community and the importance of lesbian identity today.
- Subject
- Alcohol abuse; Alternative insemination; Artificial insemination, Human; Blue Mountain School; Brown, Betsy; classism; Drug abuse; drug use; Feminism -- Oregon -- Eugene – Periodicals; Feminist bookstores; Fly Away Home; gender identity; gender; homelessness; lesbian bars; Lesbian mothers – United States; Lesbian separatism – Oregon; molestation; Mormonism; Morton, Peg; Mother Kali’s Books; movie sets; parenting; racism; ritual circles; Self-insemination; sex abuse; sexuality; Southwest; spirituality; Springfield Creamery; transgender people; Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking (VSED); We’Moon calendar.
- Location
- University of Oregon >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States
- Date
- 2018-08-28
- Identifier
- Coll520_do063
- 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
